The Language of Meetings




Home Negotiating Telephoning Meetings Leading Questions Handling Hostility Effective Meetings Being a Leader Presentations Grammar Vocabulary Listening and Pronunciation Practice Let's Do Business Achievement Tests	The Language of Meetings Level: Intermediate to Advanced Number of Lessons: 4 Total Hours of Tuition: 40 hrs average Total Number of Units: 17 Total Number of Pages: 187 "Let's Do Business - The Language of Meetings" deals with key business issues over a series of 4 separate lessons. All the lessons are self contained, and can be taken in any order. The key feature for each lesson is the video, taken from authentic management training materials. Click on the lesson titles on the left for more details on the video and the language objectives covered. NOTE: You need to have a User ID and Password to access the lessons. Click here to register . START ON-LINE COURSE

		Scenario Two production managers discuss the preparations required to deal with an order from an important new client. A week later, the two production managers meet again to review the preparations.
	Lesson - 1 Leading Questions (4Units)
	Objectives:- You will study the use of the word deal study wh-questions practice using know and think practise using every, each and all study the use of irregular verbs in the past tense study the verbs followed by infinitives study the vocabulary of problem-solving study the intonation of spoken English ctise the intonation of question forms [Back to Top]

	Lesson - 2 Handling Hostility (3 Units)	Scenario Managing and motivating people is probably the most difficult task facing a manager. In this video, you will see a tense meeting which includes a problem employee, his trade union representative, a production manager, and a personnel manager.
	Lesson - 2 Handling Hostility (3 Units)
	Objectives:- You will study the word rule study question tags study reporting verbs study a set of phrasal verbs study the usage of some and any practise being polite and being direct study somes uses of to work practice the intonation of question tags [Back to Top]

		Scenario The managers of a small courier company meet with a shareholder to discuss their business plans.
	Lesson - 3 Effective Meetings (4 Units)
	Objectives:- You will study the usage of going to study the word make study the word point study uses of have got study uses of the word run study discourse markers with say and tell study past simple and present perfect study first and second conditionals practice the intonation of conditionals [Back to Top]

		Scenario In this video the directors of two companies, McGregor Mouldings and Magnolia, meet to discuss the terms of the merger of their two companies. The Chair hopes to avoid any last minute problems.
	Lesson - 4 Being a Leader (6 Units)
	Objectives:- You will study uses of as and like practise being polite study the function of which study the use of wh-clauses practice some common idioms study some collocations practise stressed and unstressed modals practise talking about possibilities study some more idioms study a group of sporting metaphors study the vocabulary of meetings practise making decisions and predictions [Back to Top]

[ © Copyright Abacus Communications 1996-2004 e-mail: . ]