ESL Business Meetings Conversation – Pocket Passport

A fun lesson for ESL students to learn grammar, vocabulary, and expressions for having a business meetings conversation. A business English conversation lesson, learn business phrasal verbs, business English idioms, and business English vocabulary.

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Warm Up Questions

1. How often do you attend meetings?
2. What role do you have in meetings? Give some examples.
3. What do you like or dislike about meetings?

ESL Video on Business English Meetings Conversation

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ESL Listening Questions

1. Who is running late?
2. What is Jason responsible for in the meeting?
3. What is first on the agenda?
4. Does Carrie need to update anyone on anything?
5. What flavor is the new beverage?
6. What kind of drink is it?
7. Does Tony think that the new Ginger Cola will be successful?
8. How does Tony describe the new drink?

Word Bank

run late | get through | get started | take the minutes | get the ball rolling
agenda, update | a winner | pitch | big hit | work out

Vocabulary – Business Meetings Conversation

Synonyms – find words in the video with the same meaning.

1. very successful
2. drink (noun)
3. behind schedule
4. what is new about X
5. meeting plan
6. start something
7. exercise
8. execute something to completion
9. good for you
10. advertise

Fill-in-the-blanks

Use the words from the Word Bank to complete the following sentences. You may have to change the tense/form of the word.

1. Bob likes to ________________. He goes to the gym every day. 
2. The new exercise machine is a ________________. They sold two-hundred units.
3. There is a lot to ________________, so please hold your questions until the end of the meeting.
4. Sheila is ________________ today. She will arrive in about thirty minutes.
5. If we want to make our deadline, we really need to ________________.

Grammar Practice

Underline the correct form of the verbs.

1. We should get start/started.
2. They arrive/arrived late.
3. We have/had many things to discuss at our next meeting.
4. Jack take/took minutes at our last meeting.
5. They decide/decided to go with another company.
6. We discuss/discussed many things at our last meeting.
7. We will pitch/pitching a sports recovery drink.
8. I give/gave him an update.

Fill-in-the-gaps

Fill-in-the-gaps with the correct preposition for or to.

1. It’s excellent ___________ cleaning things.
2. It’s great ___________ cook pasta with.
3. It’s a perfect tool ___________ help you weed the garden.
4. It’s the ideal thing ___________ keeping fresh.
5. It will help you ___________ stay fit.

Useful Vocabulary

efficient/inefficient | waste of time | ramble on | get (straight) to the point

ESL Printable and Digital Flashcards to Talk about Business Meetings

Use the flashcards to talk about business meetings.

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ESL Conversation on Business Meetings

Part A

Tony: Hello everyone. Tim and Melinda are running late. But we have a lot to get through so we should get started. Jason, can you please take the minutes today?

Jason: Yes, of course Tony. No Problem.

Tony: Thanks. Okay, let’s get the ball rolling.

First on the agenda today, Carrie can you please give us an update on the marketing strategy for our new beverage Ginger Cola?

Carrie: Yes, Tony. Well, we have decided to pitch the new ginger Cola as a health and energy drink.

Tony: Fantastic! I think this will be our next big hit.
There is no reason that it shouldn’t be a winner.

It tastes great, it’s healthy and it has very low calories. It’s perfect for working out. 
Let’s make this the next Red Bull energy drink. 

Where are we with the advertising and promotion strategy?

Part B

Carrie: We still have a few things to work out, but we are planning to have a power hitter from the Japan baseball league as a celebrity endorsement. We still have to iron out some details, but we think he’s a great fit.

Tony: Great idea.

Well let’s set aside more time at the next meeting for a more in depth look at what you have planned. Of course, that’s really important, but we have a lot to cover in today’s meeting.

Carrie: Okay Tony. I will be ready to present to everyone then.

Tony: Let’s move on to the next topic. I have sent around an action list for each of you to take a look at. It includes a look at the following calls to action that we need to address for the upcoming charity Walkathon. Let’s take a few moments and go over everyone’s role. This is extremely important for us. We need to give back to the community.

Carrie: I couldn’t agree more. This has been at the top all of our agendas and we have come up with some pretty innovative ideas. Let me start things off if that’s okay with everyone else?

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