Level B2 Business English
Lesson 10
Meeting – Explaining Statistics
ミーティング 統計の説明

1
PHRASE OF THE DAY
今日のフレーズ

This indicates that 40%...
～の40％が、、だと示しています。

2
SITUATION
状況

Jack is asking for some explanations about sales and expenditure figures.
ジャックは売上と支出について説明を求めています。

3
DIALOGUE
ダイアログ

Directions: First repeat after your tutor and then practice each role.

Jack
Can we go over some of the figures from last year? What about our operational expenditures?
Miles
Sure, operational expenditures are estimated at $1,750,000. There was an increase of about 20% in expenditures from the previous year.
Jack
What percentage of that was for R & D?
Miles
We spent $437,500 on R & D last year. Roughly, an increase of 25% from the year before.
Jack
And what about the sales figure, Cathy?
Cathy
Sales were at $5,450,000. Up about 10 points. Our gross profit was $2,450,000. This indicates that 40% of total sales was our gross operational profit for the year.
Jack
Good to hear, the shareholders will be very happy indeed.

4
VOCABULARY
語い

Directions: First repeat after your tutor and then read aloud by yourself.

operational expenses
運営経費
R & D
研究開発
roughly
おおよそ
10 points
10ポイント
gross profit
粗利
gross operational profit
総営業利益

5
LANGUAGE FOCUS
今日のポイント

This indicates that 40%...
～の４０％が、、だと示しています。
Meeting - Explaining Statistics

Directions: First repeat after your tutor and then read aloud again by yourself.

There has been a significant decrease in …
Sales have climbed/fallen over the past few quarters.
We’ve experienced a rise in …
Sales figures have been increasing/decreasing since…
We haven’t seen any noteworthy changes in…
Sales have fallen by … % since…
There’s been a slip/jump in sales over the past…

6
ACTIVITY
練習

Activity 1: Talk about the current status of your company (or country). Are they significant or minor? Make sure to use the lesson’s language to describe the changes.

Activity 2: Below are graphs of the population distribution in Japan for 1950, 2007, and 2050. Discuss how the population changed and is supposed to change with your tutor.

HINTS
bottomed out
底入れ
climb
登る、上がる
collapse
崩壊
continuing
引き続き
decrease
減少
fall
落ちる
plateau
高原、平たい
peaked
とがった
rise and fall
上昇下降
rise
上がる