Today’s listening is from the beginning and end of a meeting held to discuss some urgent building work at a factory. It’s going to be run in a more formal style with firm direction from the chairperson because it involves making a decision about an expensive investment. Other types of meetings that benefit from having someone to lead the discussion are Teleconferences – having a chairperson can help make sure people speak in turn rather than all at once! Transcript available at: http://web.mac.com/pdatkinson/iWeb/BusinessEnglishPod/ Please visit: http://www.workplace-english-training.com/sample.html for access to a sample of our premium subscription service. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
