Today was our final lesson and the conclusion to our second course together. My personal thanks to you all for your active participation throughout the course again. Each of you made real progress and by the end were demonstrating very good use of the key phrases and techniques we studied. You all worked together well and I hope you will show the same level of confidence in your real business meetings.
For continuing study please try to read a variety of business related English from a variety of sources - not just the usual FT, WSJ type of publications. These can be quite difficult to understand. The non-business focused publications that also cover business news often present the same news using similar vocabulary and expressions but in a way which is much easier to understand.
For continuing study please try to read a variety of business related English from a variety of sources - not just the usual FT, WSJ type of publications. These can be quite difficult to understand. The non-business focused publications that also cover business news often present the same news using similar vocabulary and expressions but in a way which is much easier to understand.
Present: S, N, M, K
Apologies:
The focus today was to just try to apply everything we had learned during this course. There are essentially 2 important parts to meetings -
Functions include -
Useful phrases / vocabulary
negligible
sorry for interrupting you
she may find some problems with ....
I personally think that ...
treat the pollution problem
releases toxic gas
I hesitate to say this but ...
productivity
that's an important point
out of a population of 48,000 we employee 600 people
as {name} said ....
to investigate our situation
damage our company image
our public image
staff are demanding wage increases
I can't comment on that point
political fallout
abandon our responsibility
so what you're saying is ....
appealing to ...
relatively low
damage control
choose to come clean
once people become aware of the problem
in the same boat
absorb the cost
by the next meeting
whether to shut down or not
made progress
The first thing we have to do is ...
..... is an issue we ...
poses the biggest risk
low income consumers
if the economy deteriorates
utilize new technology
collaborate with universities
lobbying the government
first item
additives
could be applied to ...
downturn in the economy
let me get this right
workload
Apologies:
The focus today was to just try to apply everything we had learned during this course. There are essentially 2 important parts to meetings -
- Chairing / Facilitating
- Actively Participating
Functions include -
- Presenting your opinions in a logical way with reasoning
- Disagreeing (and giving alternative suggestions)
- Using diplomatic type language
- Using a variety of techniques to elicit more information
- Acknowledging and clarifying
Useful phrases / vocabulary
negligible
sorry for interrupting you
she may find some problems with ....
I personally think that ...
treat the pollution problem
releases toxic gas
I hesitate to say this but ...
productivity
that's an important point
out of a population of 48,000 we employee 600 people
as {name} said ....
to investigate our situation
damage our company image
our public image
staff are demanding wage increases
I can't comment on that point
political fallout
abandon our responsibility
so what you're saying is ....
appealing to ...
relatively low
damage control
choose to come clean
once people become aware of the problem
in the same boat
absorb the cost
by the next meeting
whether to shut down or not
made progress
The first thing we have to do is ...
..... is an issue we ...
poses the biggest risk
low income consumers
if the economy deteriorates
utilize new technology
collaborate with universities
lobbying the government
first item
additives
could be applied to ...
downturn in the economy
let me get this right
workload