2 English for Information Technology A2-B1 Vocational English Teacher’s Book

videoconference: like a teleconference, but 

with video; useful for the same reasons as 

teleconferences and because it’s easier to 

understand people when you can see their 

faces 

Listening 

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 Before listening, students read the 

meeting agenda. It is useful here to teach attend. 

Draw attention, perhaps through eliciting, to the 

fact that the attendees are in different locations 

(head office and local office). Elicit also the first 

topic the participants will be heard talking about 

on the recording (replacing old computers). 

Students should read the questions before the 

recording is played.