Meeting

1.Welcoming the participants

• Welcome, everyone. Today's meeting is about ...
• Welcome, everyone. The purpose of today's meeting is to ... (to complete the budget process, to agree the marketing strategy, etc)
• Welcome, everyone. Today's meeting is going to last no more than an hour.

2.Start the meeting

• Are we good to go?
• Let's get started, shall we? I think everybody is here.
• Let's kick off the meeting with ... (a brief rundown of the last meeting)

3.Describe what you are doing

• Can I share my screen with you?
• I'm going to share my screen/desktop with you now.
• Can you see my screen? Can you see it clearly?
• Do you want me to make it bigger?

4.Asking for clarification during a meeting

• Could you speak more slowly, please?
• Could you speak up please? (a little louder)
• Could you go through that again? I didn't quite understand it.
• I didn't quite get that. I am sorry, could you say it again?
• Coud you repeat that last bit, please?

5.Phrases for interrupting politely in a meeting

• Sorry, would you mind if I asked a question?
• Would you mind if I jumped in there, please?
• Could I interrupt you for a minute?
• Just to clarify are you saying that ...

6.Talk about technical issues during an online meeting

• I'm having problems hearing you.
• The screen is blank.
• The screen is frozen. / You're frozen.
• The image and sound are out of sync.
• You're breaking up a little bit.
• There's a bit of an echo on the line.

7.Phrases for moving on in the meeting

• Let's move on to the next item.
• Moving on, let's talk about ...
• There's a bit of a time issue here. So I think we should move on.

8.Summarising and closing a meeting

• In summary, we're going to ...
• This is what I think we've agreed on ...
• I think we can leave it here for today.
• We've covered most of the key points that we wanted to cover. Thank you very much.
• We can pick up this again tomorrow.