tailieunhanh - Luyện thi IELTS (p18)

Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện thi ielts (p18)', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | TRANSCRIPT EPISODE 3 COMPANY GROWTH Hello. I m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English IELTS preparation. Today we re going to talk about businesses and different ways to discuss economic information. We re going to listen to an interview with the head of a large clothing company. Then we re going to look at how he describes the success of his company. Here s Derek O Neill. Well we ve said before that we ve had consistent growth over the last four to five years. We ve delivered EPS growth in excess of 20 over the last three years. You know growing earnings at 25 30 35 forever becomes impossible. I think we end up owning US GDP in about 2023 with 25 growth. We ve registered that 15 per cent is our plan and we think that s a good target. We re very happy with our level of sales. We grew sales in the US in girls wear at 50 per cent and we think that s a fantastic performance so we ll stand by those numbers. We ve had solid momentum in that market for four or five years and we expect that momentum s going to continue. OK. So today we re going look at the language of description particularly describing economic information. In formal academic writing it s important to use impersonal objective language when describing things. Notice that in the interview Derek O Neill often begins his sentences with We ve short for we have. Using phrases like I ve or we ve is very common in spoken English. Well we ve said before that we ve had consistent growth over the last four to five years. We ve delivered EPS growth in excess of 20 over the last three years. He says We ve had consistent growth . We ve delivered growth in excess of 20 per cent . We ve had solid momentum in that market . How would you turn these sentences into more formal descriptions Take the first sentence we ve had consistent growth. Generally the first person forms of I and we are not used in more formal writing or when describing economic data. o insearch 0 ậ TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY Page 1 of 4 abcasiapacific com .