🇬🇧 💼 Work · Fine for most work and travel (B1)
🗣️ Speaking up in meetings
🎯 Give opinions, interrupt politely and ask for clarification in meetings
🎮 Play this in classUse the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.
💬 Warm-up questions
- How many meetings do you have a week?
- Do you speak up in meetings?
🔑 Key phrases
- Could I add something here?ここで一言いいですか？
- From my perspective…私の見方では…
- Just to clarify, do you mean…?確認ですが、〜ということですか？
- Sorry to interrupt, but…お話し中すみませんが…
- I'd like to build on what Sarah said.サラさんの意見に付け加えたいです。
- Let's circle back to that later.それは後で改めて話しましょう。
📚 Useful words
- agenda — 議題
- action items — やるべきこと
- proposal — 提案
- budget — 予算
- consensus — 合意
- take notes — メモを取る
⚡ Speaking challenges
- Interrupt me politely right now.
- Summarize a meeting in 3 sentences.
- Give your opinion on remote work using 'From my perspective…'.
- Ask for clarification in 3 ways.
🎭 Role-play
A team meeting about a new product launch (tutor plays 2 coworkers).
🧑🎓 Student's card
Share your idea, ask a coworker to clarify, and disagree once politely.
🧑🏫 Your card (tutor)
Talk a lot; the student must interrupt politely to speak. Use some jargon so they have to clarify.
🌀 Twist (halfway through): The boss asks: 'So what's your final recommendation?' The student must summarize.
🗣️ Discussion questions
- Are meetings in Japan efficient?
- What makes a meeting good?
- Should meetings have a time limit?
📌 Homework
Write 5 phrases you'll use in your next meeting and use one次の会議で使うフレーズを5つ書き、1つ実際に使う