Language of Trends- The Same or Different

Language of trends the same or different

Label the words and phrases on the same lines below with S for the same meaning or D for different meaning. If there are more than two, they are all the same or all different.

Trends verbs the same or different

• attain…/ reach…
• be enhanced/ be improved
• be flat/ flatten out
• become more widespread/ expand/ grow
• boom/ explode
• bounce back/ recover/ regain lost ground/ rebound/ be restored/ pick up (again)
• change/ vary
• climb/ take off
• collapse/ crash
• decrease/ minimise
• dive/ plummet
• drop/ fall
• escalate/ improve
• increase at the same rate/ sustain the progress
• peak/ plateau
• raise/ rise
• rocket/ soar

Prepositions the same or different

• rose by 20%/ rose to 20%

Trends adverbs the same or different

• accelerate/ increase exponentially/ increase more quickly
• decrease dramatically/ decrease rapidly
• dip a little/ dip briefly
• fall sharply/ fall slightly
• remain steady/ rise steadily
• significant decline/ steady decline

Trends adjectives the same or different

• be turbulent/ be unstable/ be volatile/ fluctuate
• remain constant/ remain stable/ stay flat

Trends nouns the same or different

• a new peak/ an all-time high
• a blip/ a dip

Trends with numbers the same or different

• double and double again/ rise fourfold
• rose by a third/ tripled

Trends tenses the same or different

• it declined/ it had declined
• it declined/ it has declined
• it will shoot up/ it would shoot up
• might fluctuate/ will probably fluctuate
• the rise caused…/ the rise was caused by…

Trends determiners the same or different

• an upward trend/ the upward trend

 

Suggested answers

Some are debateable, so please check if you wrote something different.

• attain…/ reach… - S
• be enhanced/ be improved - S
• be flat/ flatten out - D
• become more widespread/ expand/ grow - S
• boom/ explode - S
• bounce back/ recover/ regain lost ground/ rebound/ be restored/ pick up (again) - S
• change/ vary - S
• climb/ take off - D
• collapse/ crash - S
• decrease/ minimise - D
• dive/ plummet - S
• drop/ fall - S
• escalate/ improve - D
• increase at the same rate/ sustain the progress - S
• peak/ plateau - D
• raise/ rise - D
• rocket/ soar - S
• rose by 20%/ rose to 20% - D
• accelerate/ increase exponentially/ increase more quickly - S
• decrease dramatically/ decrease rapidly - D
• dip a little/ dip briefly - D
• fall sharply/ fall slightly - D
• remain steady/ rise steadily - D
• significant decline/ steady decline - D
• be turbulent/ be unstable/ be volatile/ fluctuate - S
• remain constant/ remain stable/ stay flat - S
• a new peak/ an all-time high - S
• a blip/ a dip - D
• double and double again/ rise fourfold - S
• rose by a third/ tripled - D
• it declined/ it had declined - D
• it declined/ it has declined - D
• it will shoot up/ it would shoot up - D
• might fluctuate/ will probably fluctuate - D
• the rise caused…/ the rise was caused by… - D
• an upward trend/ the upward trend - D

 

Test each other on the vocabulary above:

• say any line and see if your partner can correctly say S or D
• say one on an S line and see if your partner can say something with the same meaning
• say two on a D line and see if your partner can explain the difference
• say one expression and see if your partner can use it to explain a real trend