Facilitating Dynamic Meetings
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A C1 business English lesson focusing on seven core phrasal verbs used to lead meetings, contribute ideas, manage discussion flow, and follow up effectively.
This C1 module equips adult professionals with refined phrasal verbs for managing meeting dynamics, facilitating discussions, and steering agenda topics.
Set in European corporate environments, the tasks combine structured practice with interactive communication to foster fluency, diplomatic interrupting, and confident proposal presentation.
Teachers can also assign an additional set of two exercises either before or after class. They are interactive self-correcting tasks.
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Scenario Background: Two senior project leaders in a Copenhagen consultancy firm are conducting a hybrid strategy meeting with regional team leaders.
Lars: Good morning everyone, let’s kick off today with a review of our quarterly goals. Before we move on to the main agenda, I wanna touch on the client feedback we received yesterday.
Astrid: Thanks Lars. I’d like to put forward a suggestion regarding our resource allocation across the Scandinavian offices.
Lars: Excellent. Please feel free to chime in if anyone has questions as Astrid presents her idea.
Henrik: Sorry to cut in Lars, but does this allocation change affect our current budget cycle?
Astrid: It will have a minor impact, Henrik. I do not have the exact figures in front of me right now, but I’ll get back to you with the full breakdown by five o’clock.
Lars: Perfect. Let’s examine the presentation slides now.
