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Ladies n gentleman, I am here to put forward the proposals for the new Hotel Ballroom. This will be located in 2^nd floor, and will replace the existing room in 1^st floor.

As a start, I would like to say that the present ballroom is old fashioned and not support the capacity. It is difficult to get more income for the hotel.

As for the suggestion that the project is a waste of money, the new ballroom in fact represent a valuable investment of the Hotel. The construction of the new ballroom represent modern style and the building itself provides new facilities such as lounge, pool table, and luxury karaoke room.

To sum up, I feel that this project will be great, not only for hotel income, but also for customer satisfaction

I would like to oppose the plan to build a new ballroom at the Hotel. As a start, I think that this project will be disturbed the customer. Moreover, the construction will take a long time. The construction process, incidentally, make the customer to find another hotel which has comfort situation.

Turning to the question of valuable investment, it is better to change this project, to give employee training in order to increase service to the customer is more valuable than build a new ballroom.

In conclusion, the project is disadvantages for the hotel occupancy and I feel that I like not the plan to build new a ballroom the less, but to give employee training more.

CHANGES

Has dropped sharply/ had dropped sharply

	Up	Down
Noun	A rise, an increase, an upward trend	A fall, decrease, reduction, decline, drop
Verb	To increase, shoot up, soar up	To decrease, drop, decline, fall, plunge

	Quickly	Slowly
Adjective	Rapid, sharp, steep, dramatic, marked	Gradual, steady
Adverb	Rapidly, sharply, steeply, dramatically, markedly	Gradually, steadily

1. Duration of time, up to the present:

Since February 1985 onwards there has been no change in The rate of inflation

From February 1985 onwards there has been no change in The rate of inflation

For over the last two years remained unchanged/Remained the same

2. Finished period

For two years there was no change in the rate of inflation

From April to July there was no change in the rate of inflation

• 7 millions tons of iron and 30 millions tons of steel were produced in 1973. In 1979 production of iron fell by 25% and production of steel fell by 20%
• In 1979 production of the former fell by 25% and production of the latter fell by 20%.
• In 1979 production fell by 25% and 20% respectively

ü In 1974 average weekly earnings were $73 for a man and $44 for a woman.

ü In 1975 these figures rose by 10% in the case of the former and 5% in the case of the latter

ü ……rose by 10% and 5% respectively

OPINION POLL

1. Expressing proportion

vague	By far the largest proportion of people The majority of people A significantly larger proportion of people A large proportion of people A large number of people A substantial number of people A significant number of people A minority of people
precise	50% of people One in two of people Five out of ten

2. Linking words for facts and generalizations

a. facts before generalisation

50% of people said they would not work lomger hours for more money

This indicates/suggest that most people would rather have more leisure than more money

b. generalisation before facts

Most people would rather have more leisure than more money

This is indicated by the fact that 50% people said This is shown by………… This is illustrated by…………

An illustration of this is/comes from the result of the survey in which……….. The evidence for this is/comes from the ………………

50%, for instance, said that……………………

3. The answer given by men were very different from the answer given by women

- The answer given by men were very different from those given by women

4. The opinion held by men on this subject was very different from the opinion held by women

- the opinion held by men on this subject was very different from that held by women