Presenting your work at the office: Explaining results from a chart
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Key Phrases
Este gráfico mostra as vendas deste ano.
This chart shows this year's sales.
As vendas subiram vinte por cento em março.
Sales went up twenty percent in March.
Pode enviar-me o gráfico por email?
Can you send me the chart by email?
Skills You'll Learn
Describing trends and percentage changes in data
Descrever tendências e mudanças percentuais em dados
Explaining causes of increases or decreases in figures
Explicar causas de aumentos ou quedas em números
Politely asking for and offering to send information by email
Pedir e oferecer para enviar informação por email de forma educada
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're at work in an office in Portugal. You want to show your boss a sales chart and explain how this year's sales went.
Bom dia, Dra. Ana. Tem um minuto?
Good morning, Dr. Ana. Do you have a minute?
Bom dia, Emily . Claro, diga.
Good morning, Emily. Of course, go ahead.
Este gráfico mostra as vendas deste ano.
This chart shows this year's sales.
Muito bem. E o que vemos aqui?
Very good. And what are we seeing here?
As vendas subiram vinte por cento em março.
Sales went up twenty percent in March.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Tem um minuto?
tayng oong mee-NOO-too
Do you have a minute?
🇵🇹 A polite way to catch a colleague or manager at their desk. Using tem rather than tens keeps it respectful, which suits anyone senior.
See breakdown →Claro
KLAH-roo
Of course
Diga
DEE-gah
Go ahead
💬 Diga literally means "say" and is a polite command addressed to você. You'll hear it everywhere: on the phone, at shop counters, whenever someone invites you to speak.
See breakdown →Claro, diga.
KLAH-roo DEE-gah
Of course, go ahead.
Este gráfico
ESH-teh GRAH-fee-koo
This chart
💬 este matches a masculine word like gráfico. For a feminine word it becomes esta: esta tabela "this table".
See breakdown →As vendas
azh VEN-dush
The sales
Mostra as vendas
MOSH-truh azh VEN-dush
Shows the sales
Deste ano
DESH-tuh AH-noo
This year's
💬 deste is de + este fused into one word, and Portuguese always makes this merge. Same with desta: as vendas desta semana "this week's sales".
See breakdown →Este gráfico mostra as vendas deste ano.
ESH-teh GRAH-fee-koo MOSH-truh azh VEN-dush DESH-tuh AH-noo
This chart shows this year's sales.
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