English For Business Meetings

English for Business Meetings
Audio: 5 hours 10 minutes
Learning Guide: 121 pages
English Level: intermediate and up
Type of English: American English

Course Description

This course teaches you both formal and informal business English needed to participate in business meeting. The course follows two meetings from start to finish:

- Meeting A is a formal meeting.
- Meeting B is an informal meeting.

The formal business English used in Meeting A is appropriate for important meetings, such as for presentations at conferences or at annual company meetings. The business English used in Meeting B is useful for smaller meetings, such as daily office meetings or for interacting with your co-workers.

Parts of the Meetings

Lesson 1 - Starting a meeting
Lesson 2 - Introducing the participants
Lesson 3 - Beginning a presentation/Outlining the agenda
Lesson 4 - Giving a presentation - Part A
Lesson 5 - Giving a presentation (talking about visuals) - Part B
Lesson 6 - Ending a presentation
Lesson 7 - Managing a discussion
Lesson 8 - Taking questions
Lesson 9 - Ending a topic/Planning for the future
Lesson 10 - Ending a meeting

No matter what kind of meeting you attend or business you work in, this course covers important business vocabulary useful for anyone wanting to communicate better in an English-speaking professional setting.

Audio for Each Lesson

Part 1 – Listen to a dialog or story for a formal business meeting (slow)
Part 2 – Listen to an explanation of the dialog and the vocabulary used
Part 3 – Listen to a dialog or story at native-speaker rate (fast)
Part 4 – Listen to a dialog or story for an informal business meeting (slow)
Part 5 – Listen to an explanation of the dialog and the vocabulary used
Part 6 – Listen to a dialog or story for an informal business meeting (fast)

Learning Guide for Each Lesson

Part 1 – Text of the formal and informal business meetings
Part 2 – Glossary:

a) Definitions of vocabulary in each formal and informal meeting
b) Sample sentences using vocabulary from the formal and informal meetings

Part 3 – Transcript of the entire lesson with every word spoken in the lesson

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