10.2020 Office Talk
Business meeting English
EIE American / provided
Often feel their English is not authentic, not in place, always bad? This issue of English classroom to bring super practical English phrases, to help you get rid of Taiwan flavor English, so that you in the workplace or life, speak good English, full, easy.
Business meeting phrase supply station
1. Table it
Time is running short. Why don't we table it for now and go over the rest next week. Shall we discuss it here first and postpone the rest until next week
2. Touch base (with someone)
Hi, Sabrina, I just want to quickly touch base with you. Have you had a chance to go over the initial draft that I sent on September 25th? Is there any feedback. Do you have a chance to look at the draft sent to you on September 25th? Any feedback or suggestions?)
3. Will go from there
We will start getting things ready on our end. And it would be great if you could get started on a list of potential clients. It would be great if you could start talking to potential customers on the list, and we'll talk about the next step later.)
4. Get started on + something
We'll get started on this project. We'll see you again next week for more updates
5. Take care of + something
I'll take care of it and will get back to you within a week
6. On my / our end
We'll go over it on our end and get back to you on that
Sample dialogue
The weekly inter departmental meeting is in progress, and the meeting is coming to an end ...
Sabrina:Time is Running short. Let's table it for now. We'll talk about it the same time next week. What is not discussed today will be continued at the same time next week.)
Mark:I ’D like to quickly touch base with you on the ABC proposal before we go. Have you received the file I sent last Friday? Do you have any feedback on that. Did you receive the file I sent last Friday? Any feedback?)
Sabrina:Thank you For checking, mark. We will take care of it on our end. It would be great if you could get started on contacting potential clients before the next meeting. We will go from there. Our department will start to prepare. Before the next meeting, it would be great if you could start contacting potential customers, and then we will talk about the next step.)
Mark:Brilliant. We Will go over the list on our end and we look forward to the next meeting for more updates
Note: the above English teaching is provided by EIE American. Please contact EIE Institute Belle Yin (Tel: (02) 8773-6828 ext. 368; Email: belle@eie.com.tw #
Business meeting phrase supply station
1. Table it
Time is running short. Why don't we table it for now and go over the rest next week. Shall we discuss it here first and postpone the rest until next week
2. Touch base (with someone)
Hi, Sabrina, I just want to quickly touch base with you. Have you had a chance to go over the initial draft that I sent on September 25th? Is there any feedback. Do you have a chance to look at the draft sent to you on September 25th? Any feedback or suggestions?)
3. Will go from there
We will start getting things ready on our end. And it would be great if you could get started on a list of potential clients. It would be great if you could start talking to potential customers on the list, and we'll talk about the next step later.)
4. Get started on + something
We'll get started on this project. We'll see you again next week for more updates
5. Take care of + something
I'll take care of it and will get back to you within a week
6. On my / our end
We'll go over it on our end and get back to you on that
Sample dialogue
The weekly inter departmental meeting is in progress, and the meeting is coming to an end ...
Sabrina:Time is Running short. Let's table it for now. We'll talk about it the same time next week. What is not discussed today will be continued at the same time next week.)
Mark:I ’D like to quickly touch base with you on the ABC proposal before we go. Have you received the file I sent last Friday? Do you have any feedback on that. Did you receive the file I sent last Friday? Any feedback?)
Sabrina:Thank you For checking, mark. We will take care of it on our end. It would be great if you could get started on contacting potential clients before the next meeting. We will go from there. Our department will start to prepare. Before the next meeting, it would be great if you could start contacting potential customers, and then we will talk about the next step.)
Mark:Brilliant. We Will go over the list on our end and we look forward to the next meeting for more updates
Note: the above English teaching is provided by EIE American. Please contact EIE Institute Belle Yin (Tel: (02) 8773-6828 ext. 368; Email: belle@eie.com.tw #
