Running Effective Meetings

🎯 Goal: Student can chair meetings and use formal meeting language in professional contexts

📐 Formal Meeting Language

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#meetings#leadership#business communication

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🎯 Click hotspots to explore vocabulary in context

Let's talk about meetings before we dive in. I'm curious how you really feel about them!

“How do you feel when you walk into a meeting that has no clear plan?”

“If you could change one thing about the meetings you attend, what would it be?”

“Do you prefer short meetings with a few people or longer ones with the whole team? Why?”

“Have you ever sat in a meeting that just wouldn't end? What happened?”

“Imagine you're suddenly asked to lead tomorrow's meeting. What's your first move?”

Fresh topic questions — none repeat until you have seen them all

🎲 Speaking Activity 1

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Problem Solving

Read each problem and work with your teacher to find a solution. Use meeting vocabulary as you talk it through.

8 minutes

🗣️ “One way to handle this would be to ...”

🧩 PROBLEM TO CRACK #1

Your weekly team meeting always runs 30 minutes over time. People get frustrated and important items on the agenda never get discussed. How do you fix this and still keep everyone happy?

Solve it together — talk through every option.

🎲 Speaking Activity 2

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Sell It!

You have 60-90 seconds to convince your teacher. Speak persuasively and use meeting vocabulary where it fits.

6 minutes

🗣️ “You're going to love this because ...”

🏷️ YOUR PITCH

Sell a new app that automatically writes the minutes of every meeting for you.

Convince your teacher to buy it. Big claims welcome!