Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion

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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