Effective Meetings

A video-based series aimed at improving communicative skills in specific areas. Effective Meetings is for anyone who has to chair or attend meetings and wants to get more out of them. The eight free-standing units deal with areas such as preparing for a meeting, making your views heard, and clarifying action to be taken. The meetings take place in and between two companies, giving examples of both formal and more informal meetings. How can it be used? As the basis of a short, intensive specialist course. As a component of a longer, more general Business English training programme. For classroom teaching, but also for self-study. Who is it for? Work-experienced learners from a variety of professional fields. Pre-work experience students. Key features Each course looks at a common business function - presentations, meetings, telephoning, socializing and negotiating - and takes learners through a stage-by-stage analysis of the skills and language they need to perform these functions effectively in English. The 30-minute video is the central component of each course. The video illustrates both bad and good versions of the core activity for analysis and discussion. It also acts as the focus for further transfer activities and language work, which are contained in the Student