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The company´s sales
Mr Webber and his staff are in the meeting room. He is talking to them about the company´s sales in the last six months.
Good morning. Well… we have met this morning to talk about the company´s sales from july to December.
As the bar chart shows, we had a succesful sale in july due to our latest product launched during that month: Goddess of Beauty. Then, we suffered a Sharp fall in August and september, followed by a slight increase in October and November. But, unfortunately –if you look at the bar chart- there has been a dramatic decrease in December.
In spite of these results, don´t forget that we have become one of the world´s leading companies in cosmetic during the last twenty years; and I am sure we will be able to find new ideas to improve the earnings and to get, in short, a steady rise.
***cuadros resumen de expresiones utilizadas en el texto.
| Verb | Meaning | Noun | Meaning |
| Improve | Mejorar | Improvement | Mejora |
| Increase | Aumentar | Increase | Aumento |
| Rise | subir | Rise | Subida |
| Recover | Recuperar -se | Recovery | Recuperación |
| Decrease | Disminuir | Decrease | Disminución |
| Fall | Desecender | Fall | Descenso |
| Adjective | Meaning | Adverb | Meaning |
| Dramatic | Dramático, drástico | Dramatically | De forma dramática |
| Sharp | Repentino, brusco | Sharply | Repentinamente |
| Slight | Leve, ligero | Slightly | Ligeramente |
| Steady | Estable, fijo | Steadily | De manera estable |
| Adjective | Meaning |
| (Very) large | (Muy) importante |
| Sudden | Repentino, imprevisto |
| (Very) small | (Muy) pequeño |
| Regular | Normal, constante |
| Increasing | Creciente |
| Decreasing | Decreciente |
| Rising | Creciente |
