This document provides guidance on facilitating meetings and managing discussions. It includes tips for starting and setting objectives for a meeting, dealing with interruptions, keeping discussions on point and focused, techniques for speeding up or slowing down conversations as needed, and summarizing what was agreed upon at the end. The document also covers differences between the past simple and present perfect tenses in English grammar.

1. Unit 3: Change
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3. • STARTING
• SETTING OBJECTIVES
• ASKING FOR REACTIONS
• DEALING WITH
INTERRUPTIONS
• KEEPING IT TO THE
POINT
• SPEEDING UP
• SLOWING DOWN
• SUMMARISING
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OK, let’s get down to business.
Right, can we start please?
The purpose of this meeting is...
The aims of this meeting are...
How do you feel about...?
What do you think?
Could you let him/her finish, please?
Could you just hang on a moment, please?
I’m not sure that’s relevant.
Perhaps we could get back to the point.
ex. C, D pg. 27
I think we should move on now.
Can we come back to that?
Hold on, we need to look at this in more detail.
I think we should discuss this a bit more.
OK, let’s go over what we’ve agreed.
Right, to sum up then...

4. Past Simple Tense
 particular point in the past
 finished action in the past
 actions from distant past, not new
or recent
Present Perfect Simple Tense
 linking the present to a point in the
past
 past action relevant now
 life experiences
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in2010
yesterday
last year
six months ago
since 2009
yet
ever
never
this week
recently
ex. B pg. 26

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