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[1:10] English Listening Course: Ideas and Writing Techniques for Meeting Proposals

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In the final week of this course, we focus on ideas and writing techniques for meeting proposals. This includes generating ideas in brainstorming sessions, turning them into written proposals, and combining information to write proposals with recommendations.

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Welcome back. This is the last week in our course on meetings, and we're going to focus on ideas and proposals. First, we'll look at where ideas for proposals often begin, at brainstorming meetings or sessions. Remember, these are meetings where participants think of ideas to make changes or solve a problem.

Next, we'll explore taking those ideas to the next stage by turning them into a written proposal. In the second lesson, you'll learn how to organize a proposal and how to choose the language to make recommendations and describe possible outcomes.

In the final lesson, you'll practice combining information from texts and a meeting discussion to write notes for a proposal. You will then use those notes to write a proposal making a recommendation. So let's get started.

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combine
noun
1. harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
2. an occurrence that results in things being united
Synonym: combining
3. a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
e.g. they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly
Synonym: trustcorporate trustcartel
organize
verb
1. bring order and organization to
e.g. Can you help me organize my files?
Synonym: organisecoordinate
2. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
e.g. he masterminded the robbery
Synonym: mastermindengineerdirectorganiseorchestrate
3. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
e.g. machinate a plot
organize a strike
devise a plan to take over the director's office
Synonym: organisepreparedeviseget upmachinate
4. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
Synonym: organise
5. form or join a union
e.g. The auto workers decided to unionize
Synonym: unionizeunioniseorganise
6. create (as an entity)
e.g. social groups form everywhere
They formed a company
Synonym: formorganise
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)
recommendation
noun
1. any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission
e.g. her pleasant personality is already a recommendation
his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society
Synonym: passport
2. something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable
3. something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable
Synonym: testimonialgood word
brainstorming
noun
1. a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions
e.g. we had an intense brainstorming session today