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Description
International meetings
Discussion: Interrupting
Could you think of examples of interrupting others during a meeting? Especially during an international meeting!
What is the *‘right’ thing to say?
*Modal verbs:the principal English modal verbs are can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would and must.
There is a very common way to ‘soften’ what you say. It is not really to apologise but it is used to tell the listener: ‘I’m going to say or do something you might not like, so please don’t get upset’.
Use I think or I feel
‘I feel quite strongly that we’re bringing this out too soon …’
‘I don’t think we’ve got any choice …’
Acknowledge people
Examples of polite interruptions
Meeting phrases
· I I called this meeting to …
· Talk through the figures (money)
· Prepared some hand-outs (paper) versus I have sent an attachment (digital)
· Redundancy (making the staff less/asking people to leave)
· Can I bring you up to date here? (Informing others)
· Heads up – to let you know important points in advance
· Talk you through (discuss in detail)
· The floor is yours – your opportunity to speak
· Go ahead [give someone permission to speak]
· Can we turn to you now?
· Let me finish what I was saying …
· Can I make another suggestion?
· Can we look at another point of view?
· Can we talk about that in a minute?
· Do you understand the core of the problem?
Wrapping up
Watch this video (3.41 minutes) and *discuss the language used in the meeting
*make notes!
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