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Face-to-face meetings

Can you find the right tone in face-to-face meetings? Choose the correct middle section to create common phrases for informal meetings in the situations described below.

Brainstorming in meetings: No negative thoughts

Brainstorming sessions should be positive. Rearrange the red letters to create nouns to complete these statements, which you could use to respond to negative comments.

Brainstorming in meetings: Great minds

Choose the correct word from the box to form expressions with “mind”, all of which you could use to generate ideas in a brainstorming session.

Have you ever come away from a meeting feeling that you've probably missed some of the main points or haven't really understood what's been decided? Maybe you should check your understanding more often.

Questions

Knowing how to ask the right questions in face-to-face meetings, whether in a formal or informal setting, is an important business skill. We've created an exercise on the most common types of questions.

The best business idioms at work (8): brainstorming idioms

Brainstorming sessions are about generating new ideas. People should be encouraged to think differently about their areas of work and about the work of others. Learn some new expressions to get the session going!

etw. hervorbringen

Reporting a meeting

Could you complete our report of a meeting? For each question, we ask you to choose the correct verb. This test is about meaning — and grammar.

Arranging the next meeting in English

Unfortunately, we can't help you avoid any meetings, but maybe we can help you to organize them better and to get the most out of them.

das Beste aus etw. machen

Requests and responses

Alice, Peter and Sam are having a meeting to prepare for a future conference. They each have to make requests and respond to them. Let's see if you know what language they should use.

Chairing a meeting

You've been given the task of chairing a meeting but are not sure if you're well prepared. Not every meeting has exactly the same topics, but most meetings have similar structures.

to chair sth. - den Vorsitz bei etw. führen

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