https://www.engvid.com/professional-english-vocabulary-meetings/
https://www.englishclub.com/business-english/meetings.htm
http://www.learn-english-today.com/business-english/meetings-vocabulary.html
http://www.blairenglish.com/exercises/meetings/meetingselectionpage.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieYuoQ9sMvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzSMvNjit5I
Language Focus: Opening a meeting
Thank you (all) for coming…
We’ve received apologies from…
Any comments on our previous meeting?
Language Focus: Stating objectives and introducing agenda
We are here today to hear about plans for…
Our objective today is to discuss…
What we want to do today is…
The main purpose of this meeting is to…
On the agenda, you’ll see that there are three items to discuss
You’ve all seen the agenda…
Example of an agenda
- Apologies for absence
- Minutes of previous meeting
- Chair’s opening address
- Personnel changes
- Review of Marketing performance
- New products
- Marketing plans
- Any other business
- Date of next meeting
Can we hear from Mr. Rossi on this?
I know that John has prepared a statement on his Department’s views…
Perhaps Mrs. Conti could tell us about…
Language Focus: Asking for
participants comments
How do you feel about this?
What are your views on that?
Any comments on this?
Language focus: Agreeing and disagreeing
I totally disagree.
I couldn’t agree less.
You must be joking!
Wait to be convinced
I can see what you’re getting at.
There are two sides to the argument.
On the one hand…on the other…
I’m not sure/convinced about…
I just think we need more time.
Limited agreement
I agree, but
I’m not against, it, but…
Yes, I’m with you.
Language focus: Interrupting
If I may interrupt, could you explain…
Sorry to interrupt, but…
Do you think so? My impression is that…
What? That’s impossible. We/ I
think…
Just a moment….
Can I say something here?
Handling interruptions
Yes, go ahead.
Sorry, please let me finish…
If I may finish this point…
Can I come to that later?
That’s not really relevant at this stage…
Can we leave that to another discussion?
I’m afraid I can’t agree with you on that. As I was saying…
That’s out of the question.
28. Ending the meeting : language focus
· Summarising
I think we should end there. Just
to summarise…
We’ve covered everything, so I’d like to go over the decisions we’ve
taken..
So, to conclude…we’ve agreed…
·
Confirming action
We’ll contact…
John will…
We’ve got to…
We need to look at…
·
Referring to next contact
We’ll meet again next month…
We look forward to hearing from you…
It’s been a pleasure to see you today and I look forward to our next
meeting…
