MEETINGS VOCABULARY EXERCISES MEETINGS VOCABULARY EXERCISES.

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MEETINGS VOCABULARY EXERCISES MEETINGS VOCABULARY EXERCISES

Assignments: Read the text (RB, p.5) Answer the questions: 1. What makes meetings effective? 2. What are drawbacks of meetings? 3. What do size and duration of meetings depend on? 4. What should an effective chairman be like? 5. What is the purpose of the agenda? 6. What is the purpose of the minutes? Write one paragraph on the topic “Meetings”

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MAKE COLLOCATIONS 1.seta) minutes 2.circulateb) objectives 3.sharec) a motion 4.holdd) a consensus 5.takee) ideas 6.tablef) a meeting 7.reachg) an agenda

FIND SYNONYMS 1. Hold a meetinga) go to a meeting 2. Arrange a meetingb) hold it at a later time 3. Postpone a meetingc) have a meeting 4. Chair a meeting d) organize a meeting 5. Attend a meeting e) decide not to have it 6. Cancel a meetingf) lead a meeting

Let’s vote Complete in the sentences: abstaining, abstention, against, favour, motion, proposal, propose, put, second, vote, willing 1. I ________________ that we lay off four people from the HR department. 2. Is anyone _________ to second that ______________? 3. I’ll ____________ it. 4. Let’s _________this to a ___________. 5. All those in ___________? _____________? 6. Ana. Are you ___________? 7. The ___________ is carried: 5 votes “for”, none “against”, and one _________.

USE THE PREPOSITIONS: about, in, on, on, on, out, out, up, up, to 1. She’ll draw _____ the agenda. 2. I refused to take ______ responsibility. 3. We were not clear _____its purpose. 4. The memo was circulated several days _____ advance. 5. We never hold meetings ____a Friday afternoon. 6. They made a constructive contribution ____the discussion. 7. My boss calls meetings ____a routine basis. 8. The chair summed _____ the main points. 9. Writing the minutes, make sure you don’t leave anything _____. 10. Let’s finish, we’re running _______ of time.