Business English: Holding meetings in English 用英语主持会议
　　The Structure of a Meeting 会议的结构
　　One of the most common requirements of business English is holding meetings in English. The following sections provide useful language and phrases for conducting meetings and making contributions to a meeting。
　　Meetings generally follow a more or less similar structure and can be divided into the following parts:
　　I - Introductions
　　Opening the Meeting
　　Welcoming and Introducing Participants
　　Stating the Principal Objectives of a Meeting
　　Giving Apologies for Someone Who is Absent
　　II - Reviewing Past Business
　　Reading the Minutes (notes) of the Last Meeting
　　Dealing with Recent Developments
　　III - Beginning the Meeting
　　Introducing the Agenda
　　Allocating Roles (secretary, participants)
　　Agreeing on the Ground Rules for the Meeting (contributions, timing, decision-making, etc。)
　　IV - Discussing Items
　　Introducing the First Item on the Agenda
　　Closing an Item
　　Next Item
　　Giving Control to the Next Participant
　　V - Finishing the Meeting
　　Summarizing
　　Finishing Up
　　Suggesting and Agreeing on Time, Date and Place for the Next Meeting
　　Thanking Participants for Attending
　　Closing the Meeting
　　The following pages focus on each part of the meeting and the appropriate language for each situation。
　　Running a Meeting 主持会议
　　The following phrases are used to conduct a meeting. These phrases are useful if you are called on to conduct a meeting。
　　Opening 宣布会议开始
　　Good morning/afternoon, everyone。
　　If we are all here, let’s get started / start the meeting / start。
　　Welcoming and Introducing 欢迎和介绍出席人员
　　Please join me in welcoming (name of participant)
　　We’re pleased to welcome (name of participant)
　　I’d like to extend a warm welcome to (name of participant)
　　It’s a pleasure to welcome (name of participant)
　　I’d like to introduce (name of participant)
　　Stating the Principal Objectives 阐明会议主要议题
　　We’re here today to ..。
　　I’d like to make sure that we ..。
　　Our main aim today is to ..。
　　I’ve called this meeting in order to ..。
　　Giving Apologies for Someone Who is Absent 对缺席者表示遗憾
　　I’m afraid.., (name of participant) can’t be with us today. She is in..。
　　Unfortunately, (name of participant) ... will not be with us to day because he ..。
　　I have received apologies for absence from (name of participant)， who is in (place)。
　　Reading the Minutes (notes) of the Last Meeting 宣读上次会议记要
　　To begin with I’d like to quickly go through the minutes of our last meeting。
　　First, let’s go over the report from the last meeting, which was held on (date)
　　Here are the minutes from our last meeting, which was on (date)
　　Dealing with Recent Developments 询问近期动态
　　Jack, can you tell us how the XYZ project is progressing?
　　Jack, how is the XYZ project coming along?
　　John, have you completed the report on the new accounting package?
　　Has everyone received a copy of the Tate Foundation report on current marketing trends?
　　Moving Forward 转向下一个议题
　　So, if there is nothing else we need to discuss, let’s move on to today’s agenda。
　　Shall we get down to business?
　　Is there Any Other Business?
　　If there are no further developments, I’d like to move on to today’s topic。
　　Introducing the Agenda 介绍议程
　　Have you all received a copy of the agenda?
　　There are X items on the agenda. First, ... second, ... third, ... lastly, ..。
　　Shall we take the points in this order?
　　If you don’t mind, I’d like to go in order today。
　　skip item 1 and move on to item 3
　　I suggest we take item 2 last。