Successful Meetings DVD and Student’s Book Pack (9780194768399)

Description

Successful Meetings in English is a video-led course with accompanying coursebook. It can be used in class, or for self-study.

Successful Meetings teaches students the skills they need for effective and confident communication in meetings in English. Successful Meetings covers a variety of meetings, including formal and informal meetings, job interviews, appraisals, and teleconferences. Video clips illustrate the skills in action. Specialist coach Andrew Mallett lends his expertise in presenting and in business communication to the series, providing expert analysis for each clip.

The communication skills taught in the video and accompanying tasks can help both native and non-native users of English in meetings. The language exercises in the coursebook are suitable for learners of English of an intermediate level or above.

There are eight units which cover different aspects of the skill, such as participating in a meeting, networking, and negotiating.

Key Features:

– Business skills work combined with language work

– Every unit includes a section on the skill, a section on language work, and a productive task

– Expert commentary from business communication specialist Andrew Mallett

– Useful strategies and suggestions for the skills covered

– Eight reading texts summarize the main points of the unit at the back of the book

Contents:

1. Participating in a meeting

2. Formal meetings

3. Informal meetings

4. Networking

5. Job interviews

6. Negotiations

7. Teleconferences

8. Appraisals