Glossário de termos técnicos para reuniões em Inglês

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Phrases for welcoming the participants:
▪ Thank you all for coming.
▪ I appreciate everyone being here.
▪ First, I’d like to welcome you all.
▪ I would like to thank you for being here on time.
▪ I wish to thank you all for coming on such short notice.
Phrases for introducing the participants:
▪ Could everyone briefly introduce themselves?
▪ I would like to introduce…
▪ I would like to begin by introducing…
▪ It’s my pleasure to introduce…
▪ Let’s take a moment and introduce ourselves.
▪ Please join me in welcoming…
Phrases for sharing the objectives of a meeting:
▪ Our aim today is to…
▪ We are here today to decide on/agree on, etc.
▪ By the end of today’s meeting, we need to…
▪ I’ve scheduled this meeting so that we…
▪ The purpose of today’s meeting is…
▪ Today, we are going to…

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Phrases for introducing the meeting agenda:
▪ First, we will be discussing…
▪ After that, we will move on to…
▪ Then, we’ll try to cover…
▪ Shortly after, we’ll go over…
▪ Next, we will consider…
▪ If there’s enough time, we will also go through…
▪ Finally, we will talk about…
Phrases for sharing updates in a meeting:
▪ I would like to inform everyone about the project’s progress.
▪ How is the project coming along?
▪ Has everyone submitted their monthly reports?
▪ Josh, can you let us know what’s new in…?
▪ Regarding last month’s reports, I would like to add…
▪ I suggest we start with Mike updating us on…
Phrases for moving to another topic:
▪ If nobody has anything else to share, let’s move on to…
▪ I think that covers it. Now we can go to our next topic.
▪ Let’s move on to our next point.
▪ Since we’ve covered this issue, now we can go to the next
one.
▪ The next topic we need to cover is…

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
▪ Now that we’ve found a solution/finished discussing this
topic, we can go to…
Phrases for keeping the discussion on track:
▪ Can we continue this discussion later and go back to…?
▪ We are getting out of topic. Can we return to…?
▪ Can we go back to our subject, please?
▪ I’m afraid we are running out of time, so could we go back
to…?
▪ Getting back to the topic…
▪ Let’s skip this topic and take it up at another time.
▪ We can continue talking about this later. Now, let’s go back
to our previous subject.
Phrases for asking someone to speak in a meeting:
▪ Now, Carl will tell us more about…
▪ I would like to hand it over to Mike, who can share more on
this topic.
▪ Kim is now going to take over.
▪ I’d like to hand you over to Joshua who will talk you
through…
▪ Now I would like to introduce Sim who is going to talk
about…

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Phrases for summarizing in a meeting:
▪ Here are some of the main points we discussed today.
▪ To sum up, we’ve talked about…
▪ I would like to briefly cover the topics we mentioned today.
▪ Before we finish, let’s go over everything we talked about
today.
▪ Let’s quickly summarize the main points of today’s meeting.
Phrases for ending a meeting:
▪ To conclude, we have decided on…
▪ That just about covers everything for today.
▪ We have covered everything from our agenda.
▪ We will have to finish here, but our next meeting will be
scheduled for…
▪ If there’s nothing more to discuss, we can end here.
Phrases for showing appreciation in a meeting:
▪ I would like to thank everyone for coming today.
▪ Thank you all for your time.
▪ Thank you for your participation in today’s meeting.
▪ I want to thank everybody for a productive meeting.
▪ I would like to thank you all for sharing your time today.

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Phrases for sharing your opinion in a meeting:
▪ I think we should try…
▪ From my point of view, that’s…
▪ I think that this is a great idea.
▪ There is no doubt this project will come through.
▪ I am positive that this is the right path to take.
▪ The way I see things…
Phrases for agreeing in a meeting:
▪ I completely agree with that.
▪ I support your view.
▪ I am with you on this!
▪ That is how I see it too.
▪ Great point!
▪ I have to agree with Mike.
Phrases for disagreeing in a meeting:
▪ That’s a great point, but maybe we should consider all the
options.
▪ Great job for noticing that, but have you considered…?
▪ I see where your idea is coming from, but maybe we should
change the direction a little bit.
▪ I see where you’re coming from, but…
▪ I’m sorry but I have to disagree on this because…
▪ While I agree with you on…have you considered…?

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Phrases for suggesting in a meeting:
▪ I think we should try…
▪ Why don’t we…?
▪ Perhaps we could…?
▪ What do you think of…?
▪ We should…
▪ How about we…?
▪ Couldn’t we try to…?
▪ I suggest that…?
Phrases for giving clarification in a meeting:
▪ Let me put this another way.
▪ Here’s what I had in mind.
▪ What I’m saying is that…
▪ My idea was…
▪ Just to clarify…
▪ In a nutshell, what I’m saying is…
Phrases for asking for repetition in a meeting:
▪ I’m sorry, could you repeat that please?
▪ Can you run that by me one more time, please?
▪ I’m afraid I didn’t quite understand that. Could you say it
one more time, please?
▪ I missed that. Could you say it again, please?
▪ Can you repeat what you just said?
▪ I’m sorry, would you mind repeating that again?

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Meetings – Important Sentences
Prof. Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Phrases for asking for clarification in a meeting:
▪ Sorry, I’m not sure what you were aiming at. Could you
explain it a bit?
▪ Could you go into a little more detail?
▪ Could you please tell me what you mean by…?
▪ Let me check if I understood you correctly. Did you say
that…?
▪ Could you be a little bit more precise, please?
▪ Can you expand on that?
Phrases for asking for opinion in a meeting:
▪ Mike, would you mind giving us your opinion on this?
▪ How do you feel about this, Susie?
▪ What is your opinion on this subject?
▪ What are your views on…?
▪ Esther, can we get your input?
▪ Maggie, can we hear what you have to say about this?
Phrases for asking for information in a meeting:
▪ Would you mind giving us more detail on…?
▪ Could you….please?
▪ Can you share….please?
▪ Sam, I wonder if you could send us…?
▪ If possible, could you please share more details on…?
▪ When you get a chance, could you share…?