Business meetings in English use a special kind of English. This means that some words you already know in English may have a different meaning. Practice your meeting vocabulary with this short presentation, and then download a free quiz to practice.

1. Meetings in
English
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3. When you are at work. . .

4. When you are at work. . .
do you need to speak English at meetings?

5. How about telephone
conferences?

6. This takes some practice.
Why?

7. Meetings have their own
special kind of language.

8. So some words you already know in English. . .

9. are used differently in meetings.
So some words you already know in English

10. Use the questions in this presentation to
practice meeting vocabulary.

11. Let’s get started.
Here’s the first question.

12. When is a chair . . .

13. When is a chair
not a chair?

14. When is a chair
not a chair?
And the answer is. . .

15. The chair of a meeting . . .

16. The chair of a meeting
is the person who leads the meeting.

17. You can also say:

18. You can also say:
Marijke chairs the meeting on Thursdays.

19. Here’s the second question for you.

20. When are minutes . . .

21. When are minutes
not part of an hour?

22. When are minutes
not part of an hour?
And the answer is. . .

23. The minutes of a meeting

24. The minutes of a meeting
are a short written version
of what was discussed or decided.

25. Usually one person
takes the minutes
of a meeting.

26. This means that this person
writes down what happened
at the meeting.

27. Here’s the last question for you.

28. Does table
always mean furniture that’s in a
meeting room or dining room?

29. Does table
always mean furniture that’s in a
meeting room or dining room?

30. Well, this is a table. . .
but table also means something else.

31. If you and your colleagues
table an idea,
you decide to talk about it
at a later date.

32. “Let’s table that for now.”
You can hear this phrase in international business
English, and especially in American English.

33. Practice makes perfect!
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