Business English Course Overview: Comprehensive Guide to Effective Meeting Skills
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DescriptionSo let's take a look at what we'll be covering in this course. In the first week, you'll learn about different types of meetings and what makes a successful meeting. In week two, you'll learn about participating in and running meetings in the language of meetings. In the third week, you'll learn how to give a report in a meeting and what to do at the end of a meeting to summarise what has been decided. In the final week, you'll look at how to write a proposal based on the decision of a meeting. During this course, you'll also hear from business people and find out about several companies from the Seattle area. So are you ready? Let's get started.
Listening Comprehension- proposal
noun
1. the act of making a proposal
e.g. they listened to her proposal
Synonym: proposition
2. an offer of marriage
Synonym: marriage proposalproposal of marriagemarriage offer
3. something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)
- report
noun
1. the general estimation that the public has for a person
e.g. he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing
he was a person of bad reportSynonym: reputation
2. an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
e.g. he got an A on his composition
Synonym: compositionpapertheme
3. a short account of the news
e.g. the report of his speech
the story was on the 11 o'clock news
the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furiousSynonym: news reportstoryaccountwrite up
4. the act of informing by verbal report
e.g. he heard reports that they were causing trouble
by all accounts they were a happy coupleSynonym: account
5. a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
e.g. this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale
Synonym: studywritten report
6. a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment
e.g. his father signed his report card
Synonym: report card
7. a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)
e.g. they heard a violent report followed by silence
- participating
adj
1. taking part in an activity
e.g. an active member of the club
he was politically active
the participating organizationsSynonym: active
- specialisation
noun
1. the special line of work you have adopted as your career
e.g. his specialization is gastroenterology
Synonym: specializationspecialtyspecialityspecialism
2. the act of specializing
making something suitable for a special purposeSynonym: specialization
3. (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
e.g. cell differentiation in the developing embryo
Synonym: specializationdifferentiation
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