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Writing Minutes

1

1. 
   1 Informal
   

2. 
   Formal
   
3. 
   Informal but businesslike
   
4. 
   Informal
   

2. 
   1 to organize the Christmas lunch
   

2. 
   to review the construction project
   
3. 
   to bring members of the department up to date on any new issues
   
4. 
   to appoint a sales manager
   

Second question: students’ own answers.

3. 
   The first three meetings will probably require minutes as there are several participants and potentially several points to discuss. Meeting 4 involves only two people and relates to a relatively simple choice of one candidate. The minutes will probably differ in terms of their formality or informality.
   

2

They relate to Meeting 3.

3

1. 
   Venue
   
2. 
   Chair
   
3. 
   Attendees
   
4. 
   Item
   
5. 
   Discussion
   
6. 
   Action
   
7. 
   Next meeting
   

4

1. 
   Full names are given in the list of attendees but otherwise initials are used.
   
2. 
   To determine who will do what by when.
   
3. 
   expressed, identified, proposed, agreed, requested, accepted, decided, concluded.
   
4. 
   will get, will prepare, to look into.
   

5

2. 
   We rejected the idea of keeping the existing open-plan arrangement.
   
3. 
   EF congratulated Sally on her work in accounts receivable.
   
4. 
   DS explained that the current appraisal system is not working because interviews take too long and are too infrequent.
   
5. 
   DS confirmed that the department heads thought that the current expense form was
   

too complicated.

2. 
   FW suggested getting three quotations for screens and three for partitions.
   

6

1. 
   organize – c
   
2. 
   draw up – f
   
3. 
   arrange – a
   
4. 
   contact – e
   
5. 
   evaluate – d
   
6. 
   chase up – b
   

6.