sales and marketing/ brainstorming in groups/ starting and ending meetings
Market Leader Intermediate Unit 1
Choose meetings from the list below or take a card from a cut up copy and try to finish the meeting in 3 minutes. Choose a different chair (= chairperson) for each meeting, and try to use language with each of these functions:
- Chit chat as people come in
- Get started/ Get down to business
- Welcome people to the meeting
- Explain the aims of the meeting
- Invite people to speak
- Brainstorm
- Organise the ideas and narrow down the options
- Help people to reach agreement
- Summarise what people have said
- Move onto the next topic
- Summarise what you have agreed and double check people’s agreement
- Bring the meeting to a close
- Suggest what to do after the meeting/ Chit chat as people leave
Roleplay cards
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how you can stretch a brand of walking boots. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how to improve the customers’ impression of the reliability of your brand of motorbikes. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how to make your recently established brand of watches have an image of timelessness. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how to improve the brand loyalty for your brand of toilet paper. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how to improve the brand awareness of your pharmaceuticals company. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how to stretch the product lifecycle of a toy based on an animated movie. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide how to incorporate the product placement of a brand of kitchen knives in your movie. |
| Roleplay a short meeting to decide a famous person to endorse your range of sofas. |
Match some of categories above with these sections:
- Did you have any trouble getting here?
- Long time no see.
- How many sugars?
- Good to see you (all) again. How long has it been?
- Tea or coffee, anyone?
- That brings me on to what we are going to talk about today, which is…
- Let’s get down to business, shall we?
- Okay, shall we get started?
- Let’s discuss the pros and cons later, shall we?
- Is there anyone who hasn’t contributed yet?
- What’s the first thing that comes to mind?
- Let me get all these up on the board
- Any (more) ideas?
- Great! Give me more.
- Keep them coming!
- Any ideas at all are okay at this stage. We’ll narrow them down later.
- How about some kind of (health food shop)?
- Any more examples of possible (ethnic foods)?
- What does the expression ‘new food’ make you think of?
- Let’s have three more ideas and then we’ll move on
- Come on, don’t be shy!
- How can we group these together?
- Any more in this category?
- Maybe we should create another section for these
- I think we can eliminate all the ideas connected to (German food)
- Let’s get it down to ten ideas, and then go on from there.
- Do we all agree?
- Shall we take a final vote on it?
- I think that is unanimous
- I think we should all give ourselves a pat on the back.
- Well done everyone. Good work.
- Thanks for coming.
- So, I think we are done.
- I guess that about wraps it up.
- Anyone else ready for a drink?
- Does anyone need a lift to the station?
Brainstorm language for the other categories, compare as a class, then try to use that language as you hold one more meeting.
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Meetings games/ worksheets page
Brainstorming in groups phrases page
Market Leader Intermediate Unit 1
Market Leader Intermediate main page
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