Data, Reports and Proposals: guided B2 practice

Where this module takes your English

Data, Reports and Proposals is organised around a workplace decision, not a list of phrases. The first lesson addresses this need: Can describe a chart's movements with accurate trend language, approximation and comparison. The final task checks this combined result: Quiz at 80 percent plus the speaking scenario. Practise with invented but realistic details, then adapt the language to your own authority, channel and relationship.

Level: B2. This module contains 4 connected lessons. Follow the order when the topic is new, or use the lesson map to repair one specific gap.

The lesson map

What useful practice looks like

• Rise, Fall, Peak, Plateau: Describing Data and Trends: Can describe a chart's movements with accurate trend language, approximation and comparison.
• The Short Report: Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations: Can write a 120 to 140 word data report with the three-part structure.
• The Proposal: Arguing for a Change: Can write a 200 to 250 word proposal with headings, present-versus-future framing and a recommendation section.

Use true information where possible. A sentence about your own routine, work or plans is easier to remember than a sentence copied from a model.

A study routine for Data, Reports and Proposals

1. Read the outcome for Rise, Fall, Peak, Plateau: Describing Data and Trends before the examples.
2. Say or write one model, then change at least two details.
3. Complete the quiz before opening its answer panels.
4. Use the module checkpoint to produce Checkpoint: From Chart to Recommendation independently.
5. Return only to the lesson that matches the error you found.

How the lessons work together

Data, Reports and Proposals is a sequence, not a folder of unrelated pages. Rise, Fall, Peak, Plateau: Describing Data and Trends establishes the first usable move. Later lessons add control, choice and time pressure. Checkpoint: From Chart to Recommendation asks you to combine the module without copying an answer.

• Rise, Fall, Peak, Plateau: Describing Data and Trends: Can describe a chart's movements with accurate trend language, approximation and comparison
• The Short Report: Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations: Can write a 120 to 140 word data report with the three-part structure
• The Proposal: Arguing for a Change: Can write a 200 to 250 word proposal with headings, present-versus-future framing and a recommendation section
• Checkpoint: From Chart to Recommendation: Quiz at 80 percent plus the speaking scenario

Keep one piece of evidence from the first lesson and improve the same piece at the checkpoint. That comparison shows more than a quiz score because it records what changed in your own language.

Use Data, Reports and Proposals beyond the course

After the checkpoint, change one variable: the listener, purpose, channel or time pressure. Keep the central meaning from The Proposal: Arguing for a Change while adapting the delivery. This shows whether the language is available outside the model.

If the result becomes unclear, compare it with the outcome for the exact lesson involved. Correct that gap instead of restarting unrelated work.

Start or continue the module

Your progress is saved on this device only.

1. 1Rise, Fall, Peak, Plateau: Describing Data and Trends21 min, Not complete
2. 2The Short Report: Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations22 min, Not complete
3. 3The Proposal: Arguing for a Change20 min, Not complete
4. 4Checkpoint: From Chart to Recommendation21 min, Not complete

How to know you are ready to continue

Do not judge readiness by reading speed. You are ready when you can complete the checkpoint task with a clear message, understandable language and no copied answer. A small number of errors is normal at B2; errors should not hide your meaning.

If the checkpoint is difficult, repeat the lesson whose outcome matches the problem. That is faster than restarting the whole module.