2. Meetings
1. Call a meeting
S
ome
people have strong feelings about meetings. How do you think the
writer of this poster feels?
2. The ideal meeting?
Look at this advice about participating in meetings, and match the beginning of each point with its ending. Do you notice anything strange?
1. |
Announce the meeting five minutes before it is scheduled to take place; |
a. |
this will make you feel important, and the attendees will be reassured that no real decisions will be made. |
2. |
Do not take time to check the agenda beforehand; |
b. |
this creates a sense of urgency and ensures that no one can prepare for the meeting. |
3. |
If you are chairing the meeting, start off with a long introduction; |
c. |
if you have a more important problem to deal with elsewhere. |
4. |
Feel free to leave the meeting … |
d. |
feel free to join in, appear interested, and ask a couple of questions before walking out. |
5. |
If you are not officially involved in the meeting ... |
e. |
until the next one has taken place. |
6. |
Whatever you do, do not publish the minutes of the meeting ... |
f. |
though it would be even better not to have an agenda at all. |
3. Word Stress
Below are three columns of words with three syllables. Mark the words that do not correspond to the stress pattern of the first word in the column, and indicate which column they should be in, as in the examples.
1 |
2 |
3 |
agency Ooo |
investment oOo |
engineer ooO |
effective 2 |
calculate 1 |
organize 1 |
agenda ………. |
agreement ………. |
consumer ………. |
deficit ………. |
approval ………. |
committee ………. |
industry ………. |
assignment ………. |
employee ………. |
integrate ………. |
character ………. |
guarantee ………. |
marketing ………. |
commercial ………. |
override ………. |
objective ………. |
database ………. |
personal ………. |
proceedings ………. |
enquiry ………. |
personnel ………. |
salary ………. |
management ………. |
register ………. |
strategy ………. |
procedure ………. |
represent ………. |
turnover ………. |
projection ………. |
revenue ………. |
4. Useful phrases: politics
Combine a word from the box on the left with one on the right to produce a new word or phrase, then match it to its meaning.
band swing fund |
old dark grass |
smear exit land |
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campaign wagon slide |
guard raiser roots |
vote horse poll |
political party or movement that readily attracts supporters because of its mass appeal or apparent strength ……………
veteran political figures, often resistant to new ideas ……………
determining vote in close election, often one that changes at the last moment ……………
crude, unsubstantiated attacks against opposing candidate ……………
relative unknown, underdog in election ……………
overwhelming majority of votes ……………
event held to raise money for candidate or cause ……………
ordinary voters, the rank and file of a constituency ……………
survey to assess preferences immediately after voting ……………