Business skills bank: Preparing for a first meeting: Part 1

Aim: To allow both work-experienced and pre-experience students to explore and review good meetings practice and procedure through brainstorming sessions and interviews.

Level: Pre-intermediate to advanced, pre-experience and experienced learners

Grammar: should / shouldn’t for talking about good meetings procedures

Age: Young adults and adults

Materials: One copy of Worksheet 1A and Worksheet 2A for every student. Make a copy of each of the suggestions sheets (Worksheets 1B and 2B) for yourself if required.

Supplementary materials: Meetings vocabulary builder; Vocabulary suggestions plus a general ‘Business vocabulary builder’ template and a ‘Language points review sheet’ are also available below.