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[0:54] English Listening Learning: Practical Expressions for Meeting Reports and Minutes

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This article introduces practical expressions for meeting reports and minutes in English listening, including how to reference documents in meetings, report data, take minutes, and highlight key information.

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Hello, welcome back. Our topic this week is reporting in meetings. In the first lesson, we'll look at ways to refer to and discuss documents in a meeting. In lesson two, we'll work on ways to report specific data with a special focus on numbers and currencies, in this case, dollars and cents.

In lesson three, you'll learn more about writing minutes of meetings. In lesson one, you'll learn how to explain the background or purpose of a report, how to direct someone's attention to a document in a meeting, and how to point out specific information in a document or a table.

You'll also learn how to report and refer to information from various sources.

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document
noun
1. anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
2. writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
Synonym: written documentpapers
3. (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
Synonym: text file
4. a written account of ownership or obligation
minutes
noun
1. a written account of what transpired at a meeting
Synonym: proceedingstransactions
currencies
reporting
noun
1. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television
e.g. they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations
Synonym: coveragereportage
sources