MEETING 10

December 1, 2021

Halloooo

In this meeting, we will discuss about

- Meetings Vocabulary

- What people said

- What people asked

In this Vocabulary Meeting there is an example:

· to send a plan for what wil l be discussed

Lee, could you send out the agenda for Friday's meeting, please?

· to be not present

Yolanda is sick, so she will be absent from the meeting today.

· to present information to a group of people

Francesca will give a presentation on health and safety.

· to come to an agreement about an issue

If we can't reach a consensus, we will have a vote.

· to have no more time left to do something

We will have another meeting next week because we have run out of time.

· to take minutes

We need someone to take minutes during the meeting.

· Attendees

Please can you send the minutes to all attendees after the meeting?

· to discuss

Let's discuss the options for the new logo.

➢ What people said

    When telling co-workers what someone else said, you can take what they said (direct speech) and rephrase it accurately and clearly. This is called reported speech. The main verb in reported speech is usually "said." The reported verb is usually in a different tense from the direct speech.

• REPORTED SPEECH AND THE PAST SIMPLE

The past simple in direct speech can either stay as the past simple or change to the past perfect in reported speech. The meaning is the same.

• TIME AND PLACE REFERENCES 

If speech is reported some time after it was said, words used to talk about times and places may need to change.

• OTHER CHANGES IN REPORTED SPEECH 

In reported speech, pronouns may also need to be changed to ensure they refer to the correct person or thing.

• "TELL" IN REPORTED SPEECH 

In reported speech, "tell" can also be used as the main verb. It must be followed by an object, which shows who someone is talking to.

• REPORTING VERBS WITH "THAT". 

"Say" and "tell" do not give any information about the speaker's manner. They can be replaced with other verbs that suggest the speaker's mood or reason for speaking.

➢ What people asked

You can use reported questions to tell someone what someone else has asked. Direct questions and reported questions have different word orders.

Direct open questions are reported by swapping the order of the subject and the verb, and changing the tense of the verb

• REPORTED CLOSED QUESTIONS 

If the answer to a question is "yes" or "no", "if" or "whether" is used to report the question.