Прочитайте отрывки из речи председателя совещания. Заполните пропуски, подобрав подходящее по смыслу слово.

1. My name is Michael Stuart and I’m a personal assistant to the CEO. I’m responsible for arranging monthly meetings. I have to prepare (1) ___________ and then to (2) _____________ it to all the participants. I also have to send copies of the (3) __________ of the last meeting. It’s my job to check the (4) ____________, to make sure that the meeting room is suitable and that lunch has been ordered. You have to be a good (5) _________ to do a job like this.

1.	A diary	B agenda	C calendar
2.	A circle	B circulate	C circular
3.	A minutes	B seconds	C hours
4.	A avenue	B revenue	C venue
5.	A organisation	B organizer	C organized

2. It’s eleven o’clock so let’s make a (1) ____________, shall we? As you know, the (2) ___________ of this meeting is to discuss car parking problem on the company premises. I want to know what you (3) __________ about it. Would you like to (4) _____________ a discussion, Sarah? But please try to stick to the point and not to (5) ______________.

1.	A start	B begin	C first
2.	A action	B matter	C purpose
3.	A believe	B aware	C think
4.	A open	B close	C explain
5.	A lose	B digress	C avoid

3. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s nearly two o’clock. We’re (1) ____________ out of time, so we have to (2) __________ here. Just to (3) __________ up, we came here to decide whether to built a new parking lot or not. I’ve listened to both (4) __________ of the argument and it is clear that we have not (5) ____________ an agreement. The working group will try to find a (6) ___________ and present their suggestions at the next meeting. That’s on April 14^th at 11 o’clock. So, unless you have anything else to (7) __________, I think that’s all for today. Thank you all for (8) __________.

1.	A walking	B moving	C running
2.	A stop	B still	C stay
3.	A add	B sum	C clear
4.	A faces	B people	C sides
5.	A made	B reached	C worked
6.	A compromise	B compound	C promise
7.	A check	B move	C add
8.	A being	B coming	C attend

Решите кроссворд. В вертикальной строке прочитайте совет председателю при проведении совещания.

1. Ok, let’s get down to …

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2. Can I just stop you there for a …

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M

3. I totally …

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4. Perhaps I didn’t make myself …

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5. What do you …

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6. With respect, you don’t quite seem to

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7. I agree with you up to a …

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8. If I could just finish what I was …

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9. Ok, let’s move …

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10. I’m afraid that’s completely out of the

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11. Perhaps we can come back to this …

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12. Maybe we should take a short …

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13. Does anyone have any …

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14. Can I just come in …

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E

15. Sorry, I don’t quite see what you …

M

16. I think it’s as far as we can go …

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Y

17. We’ll have to break off here, I’m …

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D

9. Прочитайте и переведите высказывания, которые можно услышать во время совещания. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами из рамки. Определите, какие фразы обычно произносит председатель, а какие – участники совещания.

right, mean, understand, interrupt, earlier, move, minutes, afraid, think, purpose, record, wrong, action, point (2), sure, allocated

1. Steve, will you take the ___________ today?

2. Does everybody agree that the minutes are an accurate ____________ of the last meeting?

3. In the ____________ points it says Sam is responsible for writing the report. Is that right?

4. Now, we have ___________ 30 minutes to the discussion of point 1, so let’s get started.

5. I want to make the __________ that we are still two people short in the office.

6. Let’s ___________ on to the next point or we won’t finish on time.

7. What is the ____________ of this meeting? What do we hope to achieve?

8. I take your ___________ about the new advertisement, but it’s too late to change anything.

9. I know what you _________ about him, but he is very good with customers.

10. Sorry to _____________ you, but what you’ve said is against the company policy.

11. To go back to what I was saying __________, we still need some money to solve this problem.

12. If I ______________ you correctly, we won’t finish the project on time. Is that right?

13. Are you ___________ that we have to close this parking on our company premises?

14. I know what you __________ but we have to look at the human factor as well as the numbers.

15. I’m ___________ I can’t agree with you here.

16. I think you are __________. It’s impossible to meet this deadline.

17. You are absolutely __________. We are to reduce prices.