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English for Meetings

Unit 01

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


OBJECTIVES

 Arranging a meeting

 Confirming a meeting by email

 Rescheduling a meeting

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


Starter
Work with your teacher. Match the different types of meeting (1-6)
with the definitions (a-f)

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


Starter
Now ask your teacher the questions below and make a note of the
answers.

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


Exercise

Read the two telephone dialogues and complete the table.

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Read again and complete the sentences from the dialogues.

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Useful phrases

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Getting emails right

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Exercise

Caroline Jones is phoning Charles Armitage. Read their


conversation. Why is she calling him? What do they decide?
Complete the phrases after reading.

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Using first names

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


Exercise

Listen to Mark Peters’ dictaphone message and use it to complete


the email he writes later to his assistant.

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Output- Reading

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


Output- Reading

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01


Over to you

Are the meetings you attend formal or informal?

What other ways are there to make a meeting more effective?

The article mentions some possible advantages and


disadvantages of formal and informal meetings. What other
advantages can you think of? What disadvantages?

Business English BCS- Meetings- Unit 01

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