Hello,

I know that there are many of you who work in an English speaking environment, so 948188_learning_with_pencilmaybe you need to attend meetings in English. There’s a perfect material for you: ’English for Meetings’ by Kenneth Thomson, which is part of the Express Series.

Let’s see some useful vocabulary with ”meeting”

Types of meeting:

Progress meeting = At this type of meeting you talk about what has been accomplished on a project.

Brainstorming meeting = If you need new ideas, you have this type of meeting.

Shareholder meeting = This is a meeting for a company’s investors.

Kick-off meeting = This type of meeting is held at the beginning of a project.

Team meeting = People who work in the same department have this type of meeting regularly.

Board meeting = This is a meeting of a company’s most senior managers.

Useful phrases:

to hold a meeting = to have a meeting

to arrange a meeting = to organize a meeting

to cancel a meeting = to decide not to hold a meeting and to tell people this

to postpone a meeting = to hold a meeting at a later time or date than originally planned

to chair a meeting = to lead a meeting

to attend a meeting = to go to a meeting

Here’s an exercise for you:

Use the verbs: hold, arrange, cancel, postpone, chair, attend to complete the sentences:

  1. If Peter can’t get here by five, couldn’t we just ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­……………………………………… our meeting and have it early next week instead?
  2. Could you ……………………………………… a team meeting for next Wednesday at 4 p.m.? Ask Neil Cross if he can attend and book one of the large meeting rooms.
  3. We’ve decided to ……………………………………… the meeting. Instead, could you just email me your comments?
  4. I have to ……………………………………… a lot of meetings and spend a lot of time talking about work. Unfortunately, I often don’t have enough timeto actually get on with my work.
  5. It’s important that the team knows about these changes. Let’s ……………………………………… a meeting and give everyone the details.
  6. I’m going to ……………………………………… our meeting this morning so I’ll be making sure that we stick to the agenda and that we finish on time.

Autor: Cecilia Stănia – Trainer intern A_BEST Limba Engleză

Cecilia Stănia este absolventă a Facultăţii de Limbi şi Literaturi Străine Dimitrie Cantemir, specializarea Studii Limba şi literatura Engleză– Limba şi Literatura Germană, promoţia 2010.

Cecilia a fost mereu interesată să-şi îmbunătăţească cunoştinţele de limba engleză, de aceea ea a urmat modulul Psihopedagogic Nivelul I.

În calitate de trainer A_BEST, Cecilia predă engleza – limbaj general şi business – în mediul corporate.