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Meetings Essentials

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Vocabulary - 9 contextual words

Grammar - Compound Nouns


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Preparing for a Meeting:

If you are the one arranging or it is important to include:

  • The date
  • Time (hour)
  • Length 
  • Purpose 

It is always good to send a confirmation email with these details if you have verbally arranged it. It would also be a good idea to mention who is expected to attend and if you are someone specific to a certain role, make sure you let them know

Writing an Agenda:

In order to keep the meeting and within the time mentioned, you should have an agenda. The agenda tells everyone attending the meeting, the topics, who will be speaking and at what time. 

If the know what will be during the meeting, this will help them be more prepared for the meeting.

An agenda can be written in a simple numbered list for example;

  •  Welcome, Introduction: Marcos and JD (5 minutes)
  •  Minutes from previous meeting: Alexia (10 minutes)
  •  New project pitch: Jerome (15 minutes)

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Whether you are holding the meeting or an attendee, it is considered polite to make while waiting for everyone to arrive. Keep the topics casual and unrelated to the meeting itself, such as,  the weather, weekend plans, Netflix…

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting are usually taken by someone who is not participating in the meeting. They will be asked the meeting and  record who attended, topics and other important additional information.

Types of meetings:

There are 6 common types of business meetings. The names of these meetings are compound words, meaning they describe in the title exactly what each meeting type is. For example;

  • Status Update Meetings – meetings that keep employees informed of things happening in the workplace
  • Decision-Making Meetings – usually run by the company’s decision makers
  • Problem-Solving Meetings – normally held to work out a solution to an issue
  • Team-Building Meetings – designed to create team bonds
  • Idea-Sharing Meetings – normally known as a brainstorming session
  • Innovation Meetings – a meeting to share new ideas to help the company grow.

What is your favorite type of meeting? Share in the comments.

Meetings Essentials


Grammar – Compound Nouns

A COMPOUND NOUN is a word made of two or more words. The COMPOUND NOUN often has a different meaning…
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Compound nouns

  • A COMPOUND NOUN is a word made of two or more words. The COMPOUND NOUN often has a different meaning than the original words. We can make these words from : NOUN+NOUN (seafood, son-in-law, fire-fighter), NOUN+ADJECTIVE (greenhouse, bottle opener), or VERB+NOUN (runway, moonlight), in any order.
  • Some COMPOUND NOUNS are one word:
  • bathroom, cupboard, airline.
  • Some COMPOUND NOUNS use HYPHENS:
  • check-in, mother-in-law
  • Some COMPOUND NOUNS use SPACES:
  • bottle opener, Prime Minister
  • We usually make PLURAL COMPOUND NOUNS when we add an “s” to the final word in the compound (“greenhouses, bottle openers.”), but some hyphen nouns (“brothers-in-law”) are different.
  • Most COMPOUND NOUNS have stress on the first “word” when speaking: BATHroom, GREENhouse, MOONlight. Formal names and place names (New YORK, Mount HOOD) can be different.


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