La Gladula

EXERCISES ON SALES REPORTS
1.
a. Choose the correct word in italics to complete this report:


SALES ANALYSIS


Sales began the year at 30.000 units in January andincreased slight / slightly to 32.000 units in February. There was a sharp / sharply rise to / by 38.000 in March due / led to the introduction of a new price discounting scheme. This was followed by a slight/ slightly fall in April when sales dropped to 36.000 units.
Our competitors launched a rival product in the spring and this resulted in / from a dramatic / dramatically fall to 25.000 inMay. But we ran a summer advertising campaign and sales increased steady / steadily to / by 2.000 units a month throughout June, July and August until they stood in / at 33.000 in September.The dramatic / dramatically rise to 45.000 in October resulted in / from the launch of our new autumn range. But then we experienced problems meeting demand and sales fell sharp / sharply in Novemberand remained steady at / by 39.000 in December.

b. Use the information in the report to complete this graph:

|  | |  |
|ARTICLE |OPINION |FACT |NOUN |
|a|nice |long |summer holiday |
|an |interesting |young|man |
| |delicious |hot |vegetable soup ||a |beautiful |large round wooden |table |


Sometimes we use two or more fact adjectives. Very...