Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Common sentences in business reports presentation and practice through gapped sentences to discuss and complete, with different ways of writing numbers and an optional extension with insurance vocabulary - good for financial English classes.
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Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion
Together use the sentence stems on these two pages to write as many things as you can
that you both agree with. If there are two similar stems next to each other, just choose
one.
Useful phrases for talking about numbers in reports
Almost all company departments _______________________________________.
Almost all __________________________________________________________.
The majority of employees ______________________________________________.
Most ______________________________________________________________.
Many directors ____________________________________________________.
A large number of ___________________________________________________.
Some companies __________________________________________________.
A number of __________________________________________________________.
A small number of investors ___________________________________________.
(A) few ______________________________________________________________.
Almost no products ____________________________________________________.
Almost no ____________________________________________________________.
Over three quarters of customers ________________________________________.
Over ______________s of ____________________________________________.
More than ____________________________________________________________.
Under a third of older employees ______________________________________.
Under a ______________ of ______________________________________________.
Less than ____________________________________________________________.
Around fifty percent of managers _______________________________________.
About _________percent of ______________________________________________.
More or less ___________________________________________.
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Other useful phrases for reports
We want to find out _________________________________________________.
______________ sent out a questionnaire and found that ________________.
If we did a survey, we would probably find that _________________________.
Research shows that ______________________________________________.
In a report on ________________________, it was shown that _____________./
According to a report on _________, ___________________________________.
According to ______________________, _______________________________.
One problem with _______________ is that ____________________________.
One issue with _____________________________________________________.
We predict that _________________ will ________________________ by 2030.
We forecast that __________________________________________________.
We strongly recommend ___________________________________________.
It’s important for __________________________ to ______________________.
We would be able to improve ______________________ by _______________./
_______________________ would have a good effect on _________________.
We would probably recommend _____________________________________./
_______________________________ should probably ___________________.
It is worth considering _____________________________________________./ We
should think about ________________________________________________.
We wouldn’t recommend _________________________________________./
____________________ shouldn’t ___________________________________.
Share a sentence with the other group(s) and see if they agree.
Ask about any sentences that you can’t understand, couldn’t complete, etc, working
together to complete them each time.
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Brainstorm words that mean the same as each of these things, use the mixed answers
below to help, then check above by looking at sentence stems that are next to each other.
the majority of
a large number of
a number of
a small number of
over…
75%
less than
33.3%
around…/ approximately…
a half
we would like to…
(email) survey
an issue
predict
… should…
consider
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Mixed answers
50%
a third
about/ Roughly
few/ a few
forecast
many
more or less
more than…
most
problem
questionnaire
some
think about
three quarters
under
want
we recommend…
Try to agree on and write similar sentences about these insurance-related topics.
accidents/ crashes
agents/ brokers
audits/ auditors
bankruptcies
casualties
claims
claims adjusters
compliance
contracts
coverage
customer loyalty – switching insurance companies
customers/ policy holders
disabilities
exclusions/ small print
false claims
fire
forms
fraud
FSA
H&S/ health and safety
inspections
life expectancy/ average age
lifestyle diseases (diabetes, cancer, etc)
M&A/ takeovers
natural disasters
premiums
quotations
risk
SMEs
underwriting
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