Arranging a meeting
Neil: Feifei, we need to set up a meeting. Are you available this afternoon?
Feifei: Er, sorry no... I’m in a meeting all afternoon.
Neil: OK, no problem. What about tomorrow morning? Shall we say 10
o’clock?
Feifei: Tomorrow morning at 10. Let me check my diary... No, sorry I can’t at 10. Does 2 o’clock suit?
Neil: 2 o’clock is good.
Feifei: Great! Do we need to be face to face for this one?
Neil: No, I don’t think so. Let’s speak on the phone.
Feifei: OK, speak to you later.
Neil: I’ll call you at 2.
Feifei: Bye.
Asking permission and polite requests
Hello, Feifei. How are you today?
Feifei: Fine thanks, just finishing this report. What can I do for you?
Neil: I just wanted to ask: Would you mind turning off the air conditioning?
Feifei: Oh, ok, sure.
Neil: It's just a bit cold in here, thanks.
Feifei: Oh, sorry, of course, no problem.
Neil: And I wanted to say, we've got some visitors coming over this
afternoon, so is it ok if we have a meeting in here?
Feifei: Yes that's OK with me, but would you mind keeping the noise down, please?
Neil: Yes, of course.
Feifei: And would you mind tidying up after the meeting? It was a bit of a mess last time.
Neil: Sure, I'm busy all afternoon, so I’ll do it in the evening.
Feifei: You’d better do it in the afternoon, if you don't mind. We need to use the
room again at 4pm.
Neil: OK, I'll do it sooner then.
Feifei: Thanks. *What can I do for you?
*Would you mind turning off the air conditioning?
*Would you mind keeping the noise down?
*Would mind tiding up after the meeting?
*You’d better do it in the afternoon, if you don’t mind.
*Is it OK if we have a meeting here?
* Sure/ no problem/ thanks
Punctuality
Joe Smith is speaking.
Sarah: Hi Joe, it's Sarah. I'm on my way to the meeting but I'm afraid the traffic's terrible. I'm sorry but I think I'm going to be late.
Joe: OK, don't worry. What time do you think you'll get there?
Sarah: To be honest, it's hard to say. I've been here for 30 minutes and the traffic is at a standstill. I think I'll be about 15 minutes late.
Joe: OK, thanks for letting me know. If you're going to be any later call me
again.
Sarah: OK, will do. Sorry again. See you soon.
Analyzing sales
Feifei: Come in.
Neil: Hello Feifei, I've got those sales figures you asked for.
Feifei: Great. Please give me the details.
Neil: This graph shows the monthly sales of mobile phones for last year.
We can see that sales of mobile phones declined steadily in
January, but then increased in February.
Feifei: So, they're on the rise?
Neil: Yes, but they fluctuated considerably in July and August, reaching a
peak of 6,200 per month in September.
Feifei: So, that was our biggest month for sales?
Neil: Actually no. Sales levelled off in October through to November. But
by December there was a large rise, as you can see on this graph.
Feifei: A large rise, excellent. Bonuses all round!
Meetings
Sarah: Right then Alex, let’s get down to business. On the agenda today for our public relations meeting are the research project, the launch of the website, the timeline for press releases, and the executor of the year award. Are you quite happy with those points?
Alex: Yeah that’s fine .. if you could go through them in order that’d be great. …
Ok everybody thanks for coming. Let’s keep this meeting fairly brief really just a couple of things on the agenda. First of all, as you can see the news on the book re-launch, and, secondly, the office move, and, finally, we will have a little bit of time for any other business.