2021-11-10
20 分钟Hi there, guys.
This is Teacher Harry here, and welcome back to my english lessons, where we try to help you to get a better understanding of the use of the english language.
So what are we going to talk about today?
Well, before we get onto the topic for today, let me just remind you that you can listen to my podcast.
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And at the end of this particular lesson, I'll give you my contact details.
So what is it about today?
Well, in today's lesson, we're going to talk about online meetings and in particular must have phrases for online meetings.
The whole world has changed upside down, as you know, in the last two years.
And lots and lots of people are now working remotely.
And lessons like the lessons that I give are all remote or online.
So when people are having their online meetings using Zoom or Skype or Google Meets or Microsoft Teams, whatever it is, these are all online meetings that they're having day to day, week in, week out.
And sometimes non native speakers have difficulty not with the business language, but some of the small talk or the chit chat or the introductory phrases that you should use when you want to introduce a topic or raise a topic or have a question, whatever it might be.
So this particular lesson is going to focus on, as I say, the must have phrases and expressions for online meetings.
And we're going to break it down into different parts.
Okay, so the first part we're going to look at is the start of the meeting.
The beginning of the meeting.
So what I'm going to give you now are just specific key phrases that you can use.
Some of them may be quite obvious, some of them you might be using already, but they are very simple.
And I always emphasize the simplicity of the language that we want to use.