Virtual & Hybrid Meetings

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minBusiness EnglishLesson 5 of 10 · Outline

Aims

Goal: handle a virtual meeting's awkward moments — tech trouble, cross-talk, forgotten remote colleagues — calmly and in the right words.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Present, even on a screen

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What changes when the room is a screen

    Read a 167-word text about What changes when the room is a screen

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Virtual Meeting Vocabulary

    7 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model virtual moments

    Read a 223-word text about Three model virtual moments

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Virtual Meeting Situations

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Virtual Meeting Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Managing a Virtual Team Meeting

    Role-play: You're running a virtual team meeting with some technical difficulties. Practice managing the technology and keeping the meeting on track. (9 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: host the call

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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