Describing Graphs and Charts - Business English Activities, Games and Worksheets

Charting Success

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
Business English Describing Charts and Trends Activity - Writing, Listening and Speaking: DescribingTable Completion, Summarising, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this productive describing charts and trends activity, students describe sales figures and trends in bar charts. First, in groups, each student completes a table on... read more

Trend Tracker

Intermediate (B1) 15 minutes
Business English Describing Graphs Activity - Speaking: Describing, Drawing, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this free describing graphs and trends speaking activity, students describe and draw trends in a line graph. In pairs, Student A begins by describing a line graph showing a company's profits in millions... read more

Trend Terminology

Intermediate (B1) 35 minutes
Business English Describing Trends Worksheet - Vocabulary, Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Categorising, Gap-fill, Writing a Paragraph

In this useful describing trends worksheet, students practice verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs that describe trends. Students begin by matching symbols that show... read more

Bar Chart Dominoes

Upper-intermediate (B2) 20 minutes
Business English Describing Bar Charts Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Pair Work

In this describing bar charts game, students use a picture to match dominoes together and form a description of a bar chart and its trend. The first player looks at the bar... read more