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Discussing Trends
Aktuelle Tendenzen beschreiben

Die Börsenwerte fallen, das Thermometer steigt, die Preise sinken - wie beschreiben Sie Trends auf Englisch? Denn dieses Vokabular kommt nicht nur in Powerpoint-Präsentationen zum Einsatz, sondern auch in Alltagssituationen. Um eine Diskussion aktiv und lebendig zu gestalten, haben wir Ihnen die wichtigsten Verben zusammengestellt, mit denen Sie Entwicklungen und Tendenzen abwechslungsreich beschreiben können. Tipp: Verwenden Sie Adverbien wie "rapidly" oder "steadily", um Ihre Aussage zu konkretisieren.

The basics

Zoe, head of Finance EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), is in a meeting with Ashok, a colleague from the Finance Department of the New Delhi office:

Zoe: So tell me about what's behind the stock prices going down, Ashok, it's really been a bad year.

Ashok: Yes, Zoe, stocks went down; last year they went up a little and then went down a lot and this year we have seen prices going down a lot more, so I am not very happy about them.

Z: Prices have gone up and down a lot in the last few years I see!

A: True, but I hope we will see prices going up again soon. I'd really like to encourage our team by seeing our salary budget go up by at least 5%.

Z: Well, I'm sorry but allowing it to go up like that is really out of the question.

A: Don't you think that our team deserves to see their salaries going up?

And so on - a little boring, surely, for both participants as they talk about things going up or down over and over. Access to a list of alternative verbs might have made their discussion a little more interesting for both of them.

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