Meeting Follow-ups & Action Tracking

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 13 minBusiness EnglishLesson 10 of 10 · Outline

Aims

Goal: write a follow-up email after a meeting — decisions, owners, deadlines — so clear that nothing gets forgotten, plus the polite chase for overdue tasks.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The meeting after the meeting

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Where meetings actually fail

    Read a 168-word text about Where meetings actually fail

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Follow-up Vocabulary

    7 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Four-Line Recap

    The Four-Line Recap, 4 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Two model emails

    Read a 246-word text about Two model emails

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Follow-up Email Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Follow-up Messages

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  7. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Writing a Meeting Follow-up

    Role-play: You've just finished a project planning meeting and need to write a follow-up email to the team summarizing decisions and action items. (4 lines)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: close the loop

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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accountabilitydeliverablependingoverduemilestonerecapfollow through

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