Describing growth and decline is one of the most important areas in a business presentation. Here’re some useful vocabulary for describing trends of business when making a presentation using graphs and charts.

descripting trends increasedescripting trends decrease
Increase
• to rise
• to improve/ recover
• to go up
• a climb
• a jump
Decrease
• to fall
• to reduce
• to deteriorate
• a decline
• a drop

 

The amount of Change

trends notabletrends slight
• notable / significant• slight / small

 

trends - sudden sharp
• sudden / sharp to reach the peak

 

graph
       • fluctuation      • unstable      • steady/ gradual