{"id":64,"date":"2007-10-16T00:29:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2007\/10\/16\/bep-68-int-transcript-and-exercises-meetings-interrupting-and-resisting-interruption\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T04:24:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T20:24:17","slug":"bep-68-int-transcript-and-exercises-meetings-interrupting-and-resisting-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2007\/10\/16\/bep-68-int-transcript-and-exercises-meetings-interrupting-and-resisting-interruption\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 68 INT (Transcript and Exercises) – Meetings: Interrupting and Resisting Interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"
As a non-native speaker of English, you might often find yourself in situations like this: You’re sitting in a meeting or a teleconference, and some of the participants are native English speakers. They are speaking with one another very rapidly, and they are using some idiomatic or difficult-to-understand expressions. Someone says something you don’t understand, or perhaps something that is not true or that you disagree strongly with. You should interrupt to ask what they mean, to clarify, to correct – but you just can’t bring yourself to open your mouth. How do you start? How do you interrupt?<\/p>\n
That’s the focus of today’s business English podcast lesson. We’ll be studying useful language and expressions for interrupting and for resisting or stopping interruption.<\/p>\n
Key Language<\/strong>: Meetings, Interrupting & Resisting Interruption.<\/p>\n