Level 9 And 10

DINING OUT

TASKS

Making a dinner reservation

Ordering a meal

Making polite dinner conversation

Ending the meal and paying the check

LEVEL 10 LESSON 1

Nouns, verbs and adjectives for meetings.

Here are some useful names for business meetings: 

- There are five items on today's agenda.

- The merger of our two companies is still going ahead. 

- The final decision will be made by the CEO.

- The CEO is responsible for reporting all company

income.

- John is our new marketing executive. 

- Our biggest challenge is to increase our market share 

Here are some useful verbs for business meetings:.

- We have to figure out a solution to this problem.

- Their Ceo resigned last week. 

- They just fired their marketing executive.

Here are some useful adjectives for business meetings:

- The figures in the report were not accurate. 

I was not aware how serious the situation was.

STARTING A MEETING 

At the beginning of a meeting, it is necessary to get everyone's attention. 

Check to see if everyone has an agenda Be sure to thank everyone for coming, and tell them the purpose of the meeting. 

- OK, everyone. If I could have your attention, please. Let's get started  

- Does everyone have an agenda". As you causee, we have three items to discuss today.

It is important to thank the participants for coming. 

- Thank you all for coming today. I know how busy you all are.

Make sure the participants understand the purpose of the meeting

- The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the CFO's resignation and her replacement. 

We are here because a competitor has proposed a merger with our company... 

You can use the agenda to start your meeting. 

The first item on the agruda is a company upolate from the Ceo.

- OK, Let's begin with item number one, the company update. 

STATING PROBLEMS

Where stating problems it is important to be clear and concise. Use the words problem or challenge to clearly identify the problem. 

- The primary problem is a difference in management style. 

- The biggest challenge we face is growing competition

CLARIFYING AND GIVING EXAMPLES 

If a problem is not clear, ask for clarification,

A: The biggest problem is their CFO. 

B: Could you be more specific?

Use details and examples to be specific.

For instance, they don't return our phone calls. 

The best example I can give is our decreasing market share.

NEWS AND VERBS

When you learn a new word, it's important to be awan of its different forms. Sometimes the noun and verb are the same, and sometimes the noun is formed by adding a suffix such as -al or -ion. Look at the different vocabulary. 

VERB NOUN 

Start Start

Budget Budget

Promise, Promise

Evaluate Evaluation

VERB NOUN

Negotiate Negotiation

Resign Resignation

Solve Solution

Propose

Here are some useful words for making and discussing proposals: 

- How could we take the idea one step further? 

- What do you think about team building? 

- Would that solve the problem?

- We need to do something to improve employee morale.

LESSON 2. AGREEING AND DISAGREEING

There are many ways to agree or disagree with semeone or something. 

Yeah, that would be ok. (Mild agreement)

 I think so, top. (agreement) 

 I agree with you. (agreement)

we're on the same page (agreement) 

I really like that idea. (strong agreement)

I think those are excellent ideas. (Strong agreement)

Use these expressions for disagreeing.

I'm not sure I agree with that. (Mild disagreement)

I'm sony but I disagree. (Polite disagreement) 

I'm not with you in that. (Disagreement)

I really disagree with you. (Strong disagreement)

 I think that's a terrible idea (Very shoug disagreement)

MAKING PROPOSALS

There are many ways to make a proposal, some are very direct and others are more indirect.

Indirect or polite proposals 

One way to solve the problem might be to increase the bratning budget.

At least let's talk about increasing the training budget.

How difficult would it be to increase the training budget? 

FORMAL OR DIRECT PROPOSALS.

I'd like to propose that we increase the training budget.

I propose that we increase the training budget. 

Let's lake that one stop further and increase the training budget. 

LESSON 3. REVIEW: FUTURE TENSES. 

Review the different ways to talk about the future. Use the simple future with will and its negative form won't to volunteer to do something, to make a promise or to make a prediction.

- I'll help you.

- I promise I won't spread any rumors. 

- I'm sure that leave coordination will improve.

Use the simple future with be going to, to talk about places, or to make prediction.

- He is going to travel to mexico city next week. 

- I believe we're going to have a overger.

Use the future continuous tense with will or be going to with the verb be and a present participle, to talk about a continuous action that will be happening in the future.

- I'll be doing some back and forth between here and mexico.

- She's going to be awning the office, while he's away.

Use the future perfect with will or be going to the verb have, and a past participle to talk about actions that will have been completed at a certain point in the future.

- The meeting will have concluded by the time you return. 

- We won't have finished the project by next week.

STARTING OR RETURNING TO A POINT IN A DISCUSSION.

Use these expressions when starting a new point in a discussion. Expressions like let me see can give you a momento to gather your thoughts.

- Let me see. The next point of discussion is challenges in the coming year

- The next item on the agenda is an update from our CFO. 

- Moving on, let's discuss the play to expand overseas. Oh, and one more thing: we need to discuss a change in employee insurance. 

Sometimes a discussion will move off the subject. Use these expressions to return to the main topic after au interruption: 

- Now, as I was saying, our competitive situation in Europe has changed. 

- Now, where was I? oh, yes - the sales figures for last quarter. 

- Getting back to my point, I think a merger is not an option.

CLOSING A MEETING. 

To bring a meeting to a close, people often first indicate that the meeting is ending. Then they discuss the next tasks that everyone should complete. These are next steps. Finally, the person leading the meeting will thank everyone for coming. 

Use these expressions to state that a meeting is coming to an end. 

- OK, I know we're all busy, so let's conclude this meeting quickly. 

-I think that's about it. Let's wrap things up. 

- Unless anyone has anything else, I think we're ready to talk about next steps.

Use these expressions to talk about next steps, when people volunteer for future tasks, they use the word Will

-I'll follow up on finding a better location for the office. 

- Moving forward, we will need to learn more about our competition.

When giving an indirect order regarding next steps, a manager may use Let's. 

- As a next step let's all think about ways to improve communication. 

Use these expressions to discuss confidentiality:

 - I just want to say again that this discussion is confidential.

- Nothing we're discussed here leaves this rooms.

Use these expressions to conclude the wee thank the participants : meeting and

- Ok, that's it for now. Thank you all for coming. 

- I think we're finished here. Thanks very much to you all. 

- This has been a very productive meeting. 

- I appreciate all of you being here.