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Must have English Phrases for online Meeting

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Introduction

The whole world is changed upside down, as you know, in the last 2-3 years many people are working remotely , its would be good to learn how to present yourself in simple & effective way

Certainly! Here are some essential English phrases that can be helpful for participating in online meetings

1. Starting the Meeting


So if you’re in charge of the meeting, Start Welcoming the participants

  • Welcome, everyone. Today’s meeting is about discussing the issues we are facing in the production …..
  • Welcome, everyone. The purpose of today’s meeting is to complete the budget process or to sign off on the budget or agree on the marketing strategy for the launch of a new product.
  • Welcome, everyone. I have sent the agenda before the meeting, so you should all have a copy of what’s on it. If you want to say something, then just interrupt as we go through this particular meeting

Other ways of starting meeting

  • Thanks, everyone for attending. It’s really good to talk to you. It’s really good to see you. Today’s meeting is blah, blah.
  • If you want to get straight to the point, So when you look around the screen, it looks like you’ve got everybody, you can just simply say, Okay, are we good to go?
  • Let’s get started, shall we? I think everybody is here. Anybody else is late. They can join in as we go along.

2.Describe what you are doing

  • Can I Share my screen , if you have some presentation to show , ask the permission
  • Can you see my screen? Can you see it? Clearly? Can you see what I’m showing you? Do you want me to make it bigger? Yeah, so you might have to enlarge it because the print size might be a little bit small for some people to read, if they’re not accessing it through a laptop or a big screen.
  • I’m going to put up my presentation now !

3.Asking for Clarification

  • Could you speak more slowly, please? So could you speak more slowly so that everybody can understand because if it’s an international call, and you’ve got some colleagues that are sitting in India, or Italy or Poland or Portugal, no matter where they are, they may be all using English but they may have different levels of English and therefore it’s better if you can speak more slowly so that everybody gets an opportunity to understand exactly what you’re saying in Nice, polite request.
  • could you go through that again because I didn’t quite understand it?
  • Could you repeat the last bit? Meaning the last few sentences or the last slide?
  • Could you repeat that last bit again? I wasn’t quite sure. Perhaps you could give me another example.
  • Could you speak up, please? I didn’t quite hear it

4.Interuppting Someone

  • Sorry would you mind if i ask a question?
  • Just to clarify are you saying that …..
  • Could i interrupt for a minute ?
  • Can I stop you there quickly ,i have a question to ask related to it …

5.Technical Issues

  • I am having problems hearing you
  • The Screen is blank
  • The Scrren is Frozen
  • The Image & sound are out of Sync

6.Taking about moving on in the meeting

  • Lets Move on to the Next item
  • Moving on lets talk about …..
  • There’s a bit of a time issue here. So I think we should move on. And if you’ve got any other points about this, lets discuss this offline.

7.Summarising & closing the meeting

  • In summary, we’re going to do this, or let me summarize by saying this.
  • This is what I think we’ve agreed on.
  • I think we can leave it here for today.
  • I think we’ve done enough. I think this is a good place to stop or to end, we can pick up again the next day

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