Study guide

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Muti-word verbs

Come up with

Burn out from

stand out form

propel yourself forward

stand up to

stay ahead of

Play the part of

keep in with

get out there

stand up for

Fixed phrases

Follow less convetional paths

Move horizontally

grow into your role

reach a stage

Broaden your horizons

go beyond the scope of

take a step backwards

put yourself in a better position

Key expresion

Mannaging the discussion

So let´s get started

The purpose of today´s meeting is

Can i suggest we come back to ....?

Coming back to ...

I´ll get on to that in a moment

Involving people

Perhaps you ´d like to talk us through...

Did you want to talk about ...?

Asking for/ giving permission to speak

Would this be the right moment to mention?

Could i just say something?

If i could just come in there

Go ahead

Putting forwards unpopular ideas

I know you are not keen on it, but....

You propably won´t like this idea, but...

Im not sure what your feelings are about this, but...

Putting forwards ideas under consideration

We were wondering if ....

Something else we have been thinking about is

Putting forwards ideas you are confident about

Im sure you ´ll understand the need to...

The obvious solution to this problem must be to...

Disagreeing/ Expressing reservation

It is interesting you should say that, because actually....

You are absolutely right, but...

Grammar

Third conditional

What would have happened improving our graduate intake

Modal + perfect infinitive

We should have anticipated it

Fixed phrase+past simple

Yes, but its a good thing he came to the meeting through

Fixed phrase+ past perfect

If i only had known how reachel would react to the school-leavers proposal

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Words

Transform

Implement

Procedures

Putting in place

Means

Dynamic

Access

Effective

Purpose

Option

Phrases

Accommodate the new ideas

Achieve results

Anticipate probems

Facilitate futurel changes

Generate enthusiasm

Exchange information

Assess your progress

Measure the success

Verbs + nouns

Achieve targets

Accomodate special requirements / request

Generate ideas/ interest

Exchange knowledge/ points of view

Meassure progress/ productivity

Facilitate development/ growth

Assess performance/ a situation

Anticipate potential difficulties/ objections

Key expresion

Outlining a structure

I have divided my talk up into

First of all, i´ll .... After that, I ´ll .... I´ll conclude with

Beggining the presentation

I´d like to start by saying...

Refferring forwards/ backwards/ sideways

I´ll return to... later.

As i said earlier...

I´ll say more about... in a moment

Just to digress for a second

Signalling the next section

Ok, moving on...

Turning to...

This brings me to

Ensuring understanding of a specialist subject

Just to fill you in on some of the background, ....

By..... i mean....

Now i dont know if you are familiar with...?

Well... refers to...

This is where

And i perharps here i should explain what i mean by

That´s when

So, for example

Ending the presentation

And this is my key point

To sum up

I´ll be happy to take any questions now

Grammar

Speculating about futures changes

Future will

Will become

Future perfect continous

Will have been working

Future continous

Will be working

Be going to

Is going to be

Modal verb + have

Could have

Present simple +adverb

Will only increase

Future perfect

Will have taken place

Passive voice+ Verb to be+ ing

Are wxpected to be working

Modal verb + adverb

Must surely become

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Phrases to form verb + noun collocations

Build relationship

Keep your eyes open

Process informaton

Read a situation

Take your time

Keep an open mind

Form an opinion

Manage unknows

Work both ways

Build your skills

Weigh the pros and cons

Give you an insight

Adjectives to describe people, place, experiences

open-minded

out-of-the -way

Time consuming

tedious

up-and-coming

Self-asured

Outspoken

Run-of-the-mill

Down to earth

easy-going

low-key

unexpected

Key expression

Reporting a personal observation

It all sounds very promising

I found it to be

From what i could see

I found it to be more of a

Than ...

Whats your impression of...?

Reporting from another source

I understand you

According to

I gathered from

Expressing doubt

I have my doubts

I can´t help feelig that

I´m Just not 100% convinced

...which makes me a bit wary

I´m a bit reclutant to ....

Avoiding commitment

It´s hard to say

I can´t promise anything

I wouldn´t go so far as to say

Being persuasive

I´ve got / have to say (that)

We can´t go wrong

I´m (totally) convinced

I´m sure you ´ll agree

I´m (fully) confident

The pros (definitely) outweigh the cons

Avoiding being negative

To be fair.....

Im not saying.... it´s just that

Grammar

Past participle

Modal verb

Be going to

Present perfect

Present continous

Present perfect

Future will