Lesson 3 Урок 3

Agenda Повестка дня

Active vocabulary

Nouns / Существительные an agenda minutes an item a chairman a range	повестка дня протокол собрания вопрос для обсуждения председатель (собрания) ассортимент
Verbs / Глаголы to approve to attend to subsidize to vote to circulate	одобрить посещать (собрания) субсидировать голосовать распрострянить
Adverbs / Наречия lively	живо
Phrases / Фразы to be in the chair any other business feasibility studies on smth. to take the minutes to discuss heatedly to abstain from voting to summon a meeting to propose a motion to second a motion	председательствовать на собрании другое исследование возможностей практической реализации чего-либо писать протокол обсуждать возбужденно воздержаться (при голосовании) созвать собрание сделать предложение (на собрании) поддержать предложение

Exercise 66

Match the words to the definitions.

agenda chairman propose attend to send your apologies item vote any other business (AOB) participants to second minutes action points

the person in charge of a meeting the people at a meeting to go to a meeting a list of topics to be discussed one topic on the list the last topic on the list to make a suggestion formally to support a formal suggestion a method of making a decision an official record of what was said and / or decided to say that you cannot go to a meeting what needs to be done after the meeting, and by whom

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Exercise 67 Meeting word puzzle

Read this account of a meeting and then fill in a copy of the word puzzle. The words in the puzzle are all in the passage.

F red McLean looked at the agenda to see what to discuss first. He was in the chair, so he was in charge of the meeting. He looked around. Everybody was present. He opened the meeting at 10 am. Everybody approved the minutes of the last meeting. Then they discussed all the items on the agenda. Mary took the minutes. Fred closed the meeting at 11.45.

Clues hidden word

1. The official account of a meeting.

2. T

   M

   T

   O

   I

   C

   P

   A

   C

   o begin a meeting

3. A point to discuss

4. Verb meaning to write the minutes

5. The person in charge is “in the …”

6. If you are at a meeting you are …

7. The list of things to discuss at a meeting

8. T o finish a meeting

Exercise 68

This is the agenda for a meeting at BOS. Mary is going to take the minutes. She has marked the agenda with ticks () and crosses (X). She thinks she knows what the meeting will decide. In pairs talk about the meeting like this:

Simon: Are they going to approve the minutes of the last meeting?

Mary:  Yes I think so.

X No I don’t think so.

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Meeting of managers to be held in the managing director’s office at 10 am on Tuesday 15^th 1992.

AGENDA

1. Approving the minutes of the last meeting

2. Redecorating the building 

3. Enlarging the office space X

4. Expanding the business 

5. Hiring more staff 

6. Exporting to Italy X

7. Closing the Middlesex branch X

8. Any other business

Exercise 69 The minutes

These are the minutes Mary typed after the meeting. Write one suitable word for each gap.