VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

Homework

Select a graph and prepare a short description

Vocabulary

routine (n) something you do everyday
My morning routine is to wake up , drink coffee , have a shower and go to work

to stack (v) to put on top of one another
I stacked all the books in a pile

to account for (v) to represent in terms of numbers
Hair products account for almost 60% of the total market

moisturizer (n) 润肤霜
She applies a moisturizer before bed

to moisturize (v)
They use our products to moisturize their face

vegan (n) 严格素食主义者/严格素食的
Tom is vegan

to fool (v) make someone believe something that isn’t true
We fooled her

reality tv (n) putting real people in strange places
A popular music reality tv show is the voice

Pronunciation

zodiac sign

snake

stacked

snack

steadily

reading dates:

2002 : twenty o two  / two thousand two

Speaking exercise

we forecast that the market will grow in the future / we predict the market will grow ..

This is a graph showing the grow of the global beauty market.
On the left vertical axis  / the vertical axis on the left shows the market size in billions and the right one shows the % of growth / growth rate.
The horizontal axis represents the years.

The bars in blue / the blue bars represent the market size (refer to the left axis)
The line represents the growth rate (refer to the right axis)

We can see the global market for beauty products increases steadily, growing from more than 200b in twenty o two (2002) to more than 400b in 2016. The market doubled in 14 years.

The growth rate is also stable ranging from 4 to 6 % year on year. / the growth waves from 4% to 6% per year.

countries are ranked from the lowest to the highest / the smallest to the biggest in volume