Meetings are a great way for employees to collaborate on ideas, for management to relay decisions, or for clients or vendors to get updates.
How often do yo attend meetings ? How often are they in English ?
How formal are the meetings you usually attend ? Are they with colleagues or with people from outside your business, such as clients or suppliers ?
What kinds of meetings are they ? Sales meetings ? Briefings ? Negotiations ?
Describe the last business meething you attended.
What was on the agenda ?
What was the goal of the meeting ?
Who attended, and who led the meeting ?
1. Grammar Review: Time Conjunctions
Time conjunctions are used to connect an action or an event to a point in time.
before, after, and until: to talk about the order of events in the past or future
Example: Before the meething started yesterday, the boss called me in his office.
Example: I'm going to wait to leave until I finish this email.
when, once, and as soon as
to talk about a certain point in time when something happened or will happen
Example: When I get her email, I will call her.
Example: They left as soon as the meething was over.
How late are you staying tonight ?
I will leave as soon as this meeting ends.
2. Grammer Practice: Time Conjunctions
What is your goal or something you really want to achieve ?
Use time conjunctions to talk about what you need to do to achieve that goal.
Example: My goal is to start my own business. So first, I will finish business school. As soon as I graduate, I will save up my money. Once I have enough money, I will look for some office space. After I have an office, ...
3. Vocabulary
agenda: a list of subjects that people will discuss at a meeting
colleague: someone that you work with
decision: a choice that you make about something after thinking about several possibilities
feedback: helpful information that is given to someone to say what can be done to improve performance, product, etc.
proposal: something (such as a plan or suggestion) that is presented to a person or group of people to consider
task: a piece of work that has been assigned to someone; a job for someone to do
brief: lasting only a short time; using only a few words
to collaborate: to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something
3.1 Vocabulary Practice
I will kick off this meeting by going over the agenda.
He wants to get some feedback from a focus group.
She will go over her idea during the meeting. (proposal)
Is everyone clear on what they shoul do ? (task)
We are going to work together on this project. (collaborate)
The goal of this meeting is to reach a conclusion about the new bylaws. (decision)
4. Idioms
to get down to businee
to start working; to start doing what needs to be done; marking a transition to a business discussion or serious talk
Example: If introductions are over, let's get down to business.
show of hands
an informal vote in which people raise one of their hands to show that they support a suggestion
Example: Let's have a show of hands for how many want the meeting on Friday ?
Example: Can I get a show of hands for who will be available on the weekend ?
to touch base
to contact someone to update them or receive an update from them
Example: I'll touch base with him after the meeting about the memo.
Example: This meeting will be brief since I will touch base with all of you individually this week.
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