Introductions

Introduction

Closing the Meeting

Thanking Participants for Attending

Suggesting and Agreeing on Time, Date and Place for the Next Meeting

Finishing Up

Keeping the Meeting On Target (time, relevance, decisions)

Summarizing

Giving Control to the Next Participant

Next Item

Let's move onto the next item

Now that we've discussed X, let's now...

The next item on today's agenda is...

Now we come to the question of.

I'd like to hand over to (name of participant), who is going to lead the next point.

Next, (name of participant) is going to take us through...

Now, I'd like to introduce (name of participant) who is going to...

Before we close today's meeting, let me just summarize the main points.

Let me quickly go over today's main points.

To sum up,...,.

OK, why don't we quickly summarize what we've done today.

In brief,...

Shall I go over the main points?

We're running short of time.

Well, that seems to be all the time we have today.

Please be brief.

I'm afraid we've run out of time.

I'm afraid that's outside the scope of this meeting.

Let's get back on track, why don't we?

That's not really why we're here today.

Why don't we return to the main focus of today's meeting.

We'll have to leave that to another time.

We're beginning to lose sight of the main point.

Keep to the point, please.

I think we'd better leave that for another meeting.

Are we ready to make a decision?

Right, it looks as though we've covered the main items.

If there are no other comments, I'd like to wrap this meeting up.

Let's bring this to a close for today.

Is there Any Other Business?

Can we set the date for the next meeting, please?

So, the next meeting will be on... (day), the... (date) of... (month) at...

Let's next meet on... (day), the... (date) of... (month) at... What about the following Wednesday? How is that?

I'd like to thank Marianne and Jeremy for coming over from London.

Thank you all for attending.

Thanks for your participation.

The meeting is finished, we'll see each other next... The meeting is closed I declare the meeting closed.

The following polylogue is an example of a typical business meeting. As you can see from the polylogue, a typical business meeting can be divided into five parts:

This example business meeting is followed by the two sections which provide key language and phrases appropriate for typical business meetings.

Meeting Chairman: If we are all here, let's get started. First of all, I'd like you to please join me in welcoming Jack Peterson, our Southwest Area Sales Vice President.

Jack Peterson: Thank you for having me, I'm looking forward to today's meeting.

Meeting Chairman: I'd also like to introduce Margaret Simmons who recently joined our team.

Margaret Simmons: May I also introduce my assistant, Bob Hamp.

Meeting Chairman: Welcome Bob. I'm afraid our national sales director, Anne Trusting, can't be with us today. She is in Kobe at the moment, developing our Far East sales force.

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