B 1. Order 2. Approval 3. confirmation 4.future 5. presentation 6. Adjourn
Writing Task
Morning
Itinerary
9:00 a.m. Arrive at the company
9:30 a.m. Meeting with the General Manager
6:00 p.m. Leave for the airport
Afternoon
2:00 p.m. Have a business talk with the sales
manager
4:00 p.m. Draft the contract talk with the sales
manager
5:00 p.m. Dinner at the dining hall
Introduction
1. An itinerary: a detailed plan for a journey, esp. a list of places to visit; plan of travel
2. A meeting agenda: a list of meeting activities; usually distributed to a meeting's participants prior to the meeting
Guidelines for
Writing Agenda
Keep same style throughout the agenda
Include all the relevant information: start time, end time, meeting location, topic headings; topic details for each heading; the time which each topic is expected to last; participants’s main topic
Guidelines for Writing Itineraries (2)
Itineraries about a conference: the heading, the date, the time, the venue, and lists of topics to be discussed,activity, start time, and completion; The general plan for an instructive itinerary: the heading; the drafter; the body The tone of an itinerary
10:00 a.m. Visit the sample room accompanied by
the sales anager
10:40 a.m. Visit the workshop with the
production manager
12:00 a.m. Lunch at the dining hall
To learn some samples
To master some guidelines for meeting agendas and intineraries
To learn some useful expressions
Keys to Practice
Practice
A 1. participants 2. transfer 3. banquet 4. Visiting 5. Opening 6.Departure 7.reception 8. welcome
商务英语写作Unit14 Meeting Agendas
Objectives
To learn some samples
To master some guidelines for meeting agendas and intineraries
To learn some useful expressions
Guidelines for
Writing Itineraries(1)
Organize all the information into recognizable parts Outline the purpose of the itinerary in the heading Put the date on Organize the information in terms of the four elements of time, places, persons, and events Organize the information according to the division of time, or different phases of the whole event
Logically arrange events of a journey or a conference
State the purpose and arrangement clearly
Try to make the itinerary text more readerfriendly
Review