STARTING A SESSION
Chairman: Ladies and Gentlemen. May I have your attention, please? Shall we start? Right. First, I’d like to thank you for your interest in the problem that will be discussed in this particular working group. The papers that will be presented will, I hope, stimulate and trigger off discussions from the floor.
Participant: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, I think we need someone to take the minutes.
Chairman: Oh, yes. I’m sorry I forgot we need a secretary. Do you think you could take the minutes and then prepare the summary, Dr. Volkov?
Volkov: I am afraid, Mr. Chairman, my English is not good enough.
Chairman: Oh, I understand. Could you take on this task, Dr. Brown.
Brown: Yes, certainly, Mr. Chairman. I hope I’ll manage.
Chairman: Thank you, Dr. Brown.
E x e r c i s e . Role play. Act as Chairman who has to
a) address a noisy audience; b) announce the opening of the discussion; c) thank the people present for their interest in the workshop; d) express hope that the papers and the discussion will be interesting.
XVI. Announcing the Agenda
Vocabulary
| Повестка дня: | agenda: | ||
| перегруженная предварительная принятая | overcrowded provisional (tentative) approved | ||
| Повестка дня | заседания следующая… без изменений | the agenda | for a session is as follows… as it stands |
| проект повестки дня | draft of the agenda | ||
| пункт (вопрос) повестки дня | item (point) of the agenda (agenda item) | ||
| Рассмотрение повестки дня | the examination (consideration) of the agenda | ||
| включить в повестку дня | to include (to incorporate) in the agenda | ||
| одобрить отвернуть предложить принять раздать рассмотреть составлять установить | повестку дня | to approve to reject to propose to adopt to circulate to consider to draw up to fix | an/the agenda |
| переходить (приступать) к повестке дня | to proceed to the agenda | ||
| распределить пункты повестки дня | to schedule agenda items | ||
| снять вопрос с повестки дня | to remove (to cross out) a point from the agenda | ||
| стоять на повестке дня | to appear (to be) on the agenda | ||
| разное (в повестке дня) | other business; miscellanea; miscellaneous |