How to Speak Up in a Meeting: practice pack
A B2 practice pack that follows a video lesson and teaches a facts–story–ask structure for contributing in meetings, plus how to break in and stay brief. Suits professionals who struggle to speak up in meetings, including non-native speakers.
Follows Workplace Essentials 2: How to Speak Up in a Meeting →
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- What stops you? Rate yourself as a speaker in meetings
- Label Christine’s turn: spot the breaking in, facts, story and ask
- Fact or story? Separate what you can observe from your interpretation
- Open the ask: turn closed questions into open ones
- Find the gap, and stay brief: break in at a pause and summarise in one sentence
- Practise before the moment: homework, prepare for a real meeting
By the end, learners can
- Distinguish observable facts from personal interpretation (story)
- Structure a short contribution using facts, story and an open ask
- Turn closed questions into open questions that invite discussion
- Break into a conversation at a natural pause using polite phrases
- Summarise a point in one sentence and stop talking when interrupted
Skills: Speaking · Listening · Vocabulary
Suits: All professionals
Language practised: Breaking in politely · Presenting facts to support a point · Giving your view · Asking open questions to invite views · Building on others' points · Summarising a point briefly
Pairs with
Workplace Essentials 2: How to Speak Up in a Meeting →
Teach the lesson first. The pack builds on the video your learner has just watched.
The lesson introduces the skill. The practice pack builds it: two 60-minute sessions of rehearsal and feedback, then a task to try at work and report back on.
1 · Teach the lesson
Run the video lesson as usual.
2 · Run the pack
Two 60-minute sessions over the following week.
3 · Report back
Start your next lesson with the learner’s report on the homework task.
Teach it tomorrow.
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