BEP 81 – Spotkania: Zakończenie i punkty akcji

Ten podcast Business English jest zapowiedzią naszego nowego audio / e-book do biznesowego angielskiego uczniowie i nauczyciele: Najważniejsze spotkania

Meeting Essentials to kompleksowy przewodnik do nauki języka i umiejętności potrzebnych do skutecznego i pewnego uczestnictwa w biznesie spotkania w języku angielskim. Ucz się w podróży dzięki ponad 4-godzinnym lekcjom audio, zapoznaj się z kluczowym językiem i technikami ze szczegółowym 100-stronicowym przewodnikiem do nauki, w tym transkrypcja każdej lekcji podcastu, and practice useful phrases with the online activities.

It’s the end of a meeting, and everyone wants to go, but wait! We have one last thing to do: Action points. To znaczy: Tell everyone who is going to do what, and when. Having no clear action points is a number one reason meetings are unproductive.

So in this episode, we’ll study language we can use to assign work to people, and also some English phrases to finish off the meeting.

We’ll be listening in to a group of bank managers discuss how to deal with credit risk problems before a major year-end report to top management. They have already discussed and decided what to do, and now they need to finish the meeting. Jak słuchasz, pay attention to how the boss, Lisa, gives action points to her team, to jest, reminds them of what they need to do.

Pytania do słuchania:

1) When will Lisa’s team have their next round of meetings?
2) What duties does Lisa assign during the meeting, and to whom?

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BEP 70 – Fuzje: Złe wiadomości z ostatniej chwili

This is the first in a three-part Business English Pod series that explores the use of many different language techniques in the context of a merger. Today’s episode focuses on vague, diplomatic language and probing questions. Vague and diplomatic language was introduced in podcasts BEP 24, BEP 51 i BEP 52, so you might wish to review those to refresh your memory.

Dodatkowo, we’ll be covering probing questions, which we first looked at in BEP 64. To probe is to explore or investigate, so probing questions are used to gather more detailed and targeted information. And I should also point out that there are two speaking practices at the end of this podcastan action packed episode indeed.

For this series, we again visit our U.S.-based guitar manufacturer, which has a production plant in Costa Rica. W tym odcinku, we find out that the company is merging with a larger guitar manufacturer. To merge is to join together. When two companies join together, we call this amerger.

The new owners want to cut costs, which might mean cutting jobs. Więc, an important question in the mind of our old friend Jack iswho is going to be fired? We join Jack and his boss Jim, who meets Jack by chance in the hallway of the company headquarters.

Pytania do słuchania:

1. Who will Jack be meeting with after his chat with Jim?
2. What city might the Costa Rican plant move to?
3. Why do the new owners want to move the factory out of Costa Rica?

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BEP 68 – Spotkanie z językiem angielskim: Radzenie sobie z przerwami

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 correctbut you just can’t bring yourself to open your mouth. How do you start? How do you interrupt?

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.

The listening takes place in an internal meeting at Strand Technologies, a Hong Kong-based OEM of portable electronic devices, mainly MP3 and MP4 players. OEM stands for “original equipment manufacturer.” It refers to companies that manufacture other companiesproducts for them. In this internal meeting, all three participants know each other well so the language is more informal and direct. Jak słuchasz, pay attention to how they use assertive language to interrupt each other in order to keep the meeting on track and arrive at positive result more quickly.

Pytania do słuchania

1) What does Bill mean when he says they’re facing a “bottleneck?” What is the bottleneck?
2) Why can’t Bill just retrain the engineers he has?
3) What is Mei Lin’s suggestion to speed up the recruitment process?

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BEP 61 – Amerykańskie idiomy sportowe na spotkaniu biznesowym

This is the first in a series of Business English Practice Pods that review and extend the language that is covered in the regular podcast. Practice pod dialogs will revise key language but in different situations. Również, they give you more opportunities to practice what you’ve learned.

We’ll hear several idioms from Idiomy sportowe 1 (BEP 57) i 2 (BEP 58) being used in a new context in today’s dialog:

to play ball
to stall for time
to keep/have one’s eye on the ball
to step up to the plate

We’ll see how these idioms are useful in a different context, a business meeting. After the dialog, we’ll hear some further example phrases and then have a chance to practice using these idioms. Jen, Ken and Ryan of Ambient are in a marketing meeting discussing Accent’s recent buyout of Telstar.

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BEP 43 – Spotkania w języku angielskim: Zarządzanie dyskusją

This is the second in our two-part intermediate Podcast w języku angielskim w biznesie series on opening and managing spotkania w języku angielskim. In the first episode, we looked at how to open a meeting. In today’s podcast lesson we’re going to cover how to manage the discussion.

Jaskółka oknówka, the GM of Daneline Singapore, is discussing with his staff how to make up a budget shortfall. He has just asked Sandra to kick off the first item on the agendaoutsourcing the cleaning.

Listening Quiz

1) How much money can Daneline Singapore save by outsourcing cleaning?
2) Does Sam like pizza?
3) Does Dave agree with the strategy of outsourcing cleaning?
4) How does Dave suggest dealing with the brochure redesign?

*** Ta lekcja jest częścią naszej Biznesowy angielski eBook na spotkania: Najważniejsze spotkania. Członkowie premium kliknij tutaj, aby pobrać kompletny eBook.

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