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[1:28] Business English Course Overview: Comprehensive Guide to Effective Meeting Skills

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This course, part of the Business English series, focuses on effective meeting skills. It covers different types of meetings, participating in and managing meetings, giving reports, summarizing decisions, and writing proposals, helping learners confidently handle various meeting scenarios in English business settings.

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Hello and welcome. Thanks for deciding to join our business English course in the business communication skills specialisation. This is our second course in the series, Meetings. In this course we'll be focusing on something that all businesses have in common, Meetings. We don't know if you love or hate meetings, but without a doubt, if you're in business, you'll have to deal with Meetings. And by taking this course, we hope that you'll become more confident because you'll know the appropriate behaviour for participating in and running meetings in English.

So let's take a look at what we'll be covering in this course. In the first week, you'll learn about different types of meetings and what makes a successful meeting. In week two, you'll learn about participating in and running meetings in the language of meetings. In the third week, you'll learn how to give a report in a meeting and what to do at the end of a meeting to summarise what has been decided. In the final week, you'll look at how to write a proposal based on the decision of a meeting. During this course, you'll also hear from business people and find out about several companies from the Seattle area. So are you ready? Let's get started.

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proposal
noun
1. the act of making a proposal
e.g. they listened to her proposal
Synonym: proposition
2. an offer of marriage
Synonym: marriage proposalproposal of marriagemarriage offer
3. something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)
report
noun
1. the general estimation that the public has for a person
e.g. he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing
he was a person of bad report
Synonym: reputation
2. an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
e.g. he got an A on his composition
Synonym: compositionpapertheme
3. a short account of the news
e.g. the report of his speech
the story was on the 11 o'clock news
the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious
Synonym: news reportstoryaccountwrite up
4. the act of informing by verbal report
e.g. he heard reports that they were causing trouble
by all accounts they were a happy couple
Synonym: account
5. a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
e.g. this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale
Synonym: studywritten report
6. a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment
e.g. his father signed his report card
Synonym: report card
7. a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)
e.g. they heard a violent report followed by silence
participating
adj
1. taking part in an activity
e.g. an active member of the club
he was politically active
the participating organizations
Synonym: active
specialisation
noun
1. the special line of work you have adopted as your career
e.g. his specialization is gastroenterology
Synonym: specializationspecialtyspecialityspecialism
2. the act of specializing
making something suitable for a special purpose
Synonym: specialization
3. (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
e.g. cell differentiation in the developing embryo
Synonym: specializationdifferentiation