Keep your meeting on track

Aim
Learn language for chairing a meeting and keeping participants from digressing too far.

Basic Plan
Set up multiple for / against themed argument to allow focus on mechanics of meetings
Skills focus on useful language could be useful
Game - prompt cards for discourse behaviour in meeting & useful phrase 

Skills building

like this idea of integrating chair practice into context of teaching session as means of problem solving

building this skill within a longer term type of course

aimed more at students, though straightforward to adapt for business
http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/chairperson.htm

Kind of okay, but not much further than the usual
http://esl.about.com/cs/onthejobenglish/a/a_meetphrases.htm

http://esl.about.com/od/businessspeakingskills/a/b_meetphrases_3.htm

English for meetings - Smith, G.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2163247/English-for-Meetings

looks useful, what will a closer inspection reveal though?

make phrasals -
http://esl.about.com/od/intermediate-collocations/a/Verb-To-Make.htm
several of these are useful


Video
air powered car docu trailer

http://vimeo.com/14290007

Ideas

'discourse stages in meetings' - get the right heading from the book

Handford, M. 2010. The Language of Business Meetings.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p77

Deflating the Air Car

Article

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/deflating-the-air-car/0

use extracts on:
first and second version of aircar; second has diagrams
paragraph on power returns

dis/advantages of compressed air cars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car

Rare minerals dearth threatens global renewables industry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/27/rare-minerals-global-renewables-industry
print friendly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/27/rare-minerals-global-renewables-industry/print