Meetings
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Session1
- Introduction to meetings
- Asking for and giving opinions
- Agreeing and disagreeing
You will learn:
- some key concepts for conducting meetings in English.
- the set-phrases you can use to share opinions, to agree and disagree.
- how to use set-phrases, and some common errors to avoid.
- some set-phrases you can use to agree and disagree politely in meetings.
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Session2
You will learn
- how to clarify your meaning when other people misunderstand you.
- how to ask for clarification when you have misunderstood something.
- you will also have lots of pronunciation practice, and practice of clarifying.
- the language for being vague.
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Session3
- Structuring an argument
- Organising information
You will learn
- how English speakers organise their ideas, and how this is different from the way Chinese speakers organise their ideas.
- how to organise your ideas and how to give a mini -report to a meeting.
- This will help you make sure your meeting briefings are clearly understood.
- you will have lots of pronunciation practice, and practice of briefing meetings.
- the language for talking generally.
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Session4
- Interrupting and dealing with interruptions
You will learn:
- how to interrupt politely and appropriately.
- how to deal with interruptions when someone interrupts you, and how to return to the topic when you have dealt with the interruption.
- the language for talking specifically.
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Session5
- Suggesting and proposing
- Rejecting and accepting
- Suggestions and proposals
You will learn:
- how to make suggestions and proposals in a meeting.
- how to accept and reject proposals politely and appropriately.
- the language for expressing different degrees of politeness.
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