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Money

ES 43) 38 Listen and complete the sentences.

1    Let me just go through the figures.....................you.

2    Sales stood.....................two hundred thousand.

3    Profit went up.....................18.....................21 million.

4    Production went down.....................the end.....................the year.

5    Profits rosę 6%.....................€9.3 million.

6    This year, orders.....................Russia have levelled off.

Tip

When a preposition such as for, ot, of, from or to occurs in the middle of a sentence, the weak form is usually used.

For example: for becomes /fs/, at becomes /ot/, of becomes /av/, from becomes /from/. Also, to usually becomes /to/ before a consonant.

41 38 Listen again to howthe prepositions are pronounced. Then practise saying the sentences in the same way.

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4D 39 Listen to the way you pronounce dates and years.

14thjuly    )ulyl4th

lst May 1999    May lst, 1999

22 April 2009    April 22, 2009

Tips

•    In British English, you usually say and write the day first, followed by the month. In American English, it is usually the other way round: month first, followed by the day.

•    In American English, you do not need to say the before the ordinal.

•    When you write the datę, you can leave out the ending -st/-nd/-rd/-th, e.g. 16 june.

Q| Say these dates out loud.

17 February	5	23 March 1990
February 17	6	January 13, 2003
20 August 2005	7	30 October 1999
june 30, 2010	8	3 September

43) 40 Listen to check your answers. Then listen again and practise saying the dates.

□    4¹' <il We iiim>i| lo Im* accurate when we talk about figures. When wemake a

mlulrtko ni Ihme Is .1 misunderstanding, we often use stress to put it right, ,16 In tlili exnmple.

A *i«i if>v«»nuo*i for the guarter increased 12.9 per cent. u Sorry, 110.1 sald 12.£ per cent.

0 Uhderllne the part which Speaker B will stress most to correct the mlsnnderstandings in the following exchanges.

1    A: Their shares have jumped to three hundred and eighty thousand yen.

B: Weil, my table here says three hundred and eighteen thousand, actually.

2    A: Last month, sales fell to nine hundred and fifty thousand.

B: Worse than that, l’m afraid. They dropped to eight hundred and fifty thousand.

3    A: Let me just read that back to you, 232 623.

B: 643-232 643.

4    A: We’ll meet again on the thirtieth.

B: Really? I thought we’d agreed on the thirteenth.

5    A: Production has increased by 2,450 units.

B: Sorry. The exact figurę is 2,650.

6    A: Did you say that Accounts is on the eighth floor?

B: No. It’s on the twelfth floor, actually.

4)) 42 Now listen to the exchanges and practise Speaker B’s replies.

0 Study these graphs. They show the sales volumes for six different companies.

5 U RYWAL BUSINESS ENGLISH

4)) 43 Now listen to the recording, and match each description (1-6) to the appropriate graph (A-F).

Description 1..................... Description 4.....................

Description 2.................... Description 5 .................

Description 3 ................. Description 6.....................