Actividad de aprendizaje 4

Evidencia 2: “Business meeting workshop”

A nivel laboral, el manejo de un segundo idioma, en especial del inglés, es

indispensable; no solo permite gestionar diferentes procesos técnicos de
manera eficiente, sino que genera nuevas oportunidades comerciales que
permiten el crecimiento de cualquier compañía.

Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, para el desarrollo de esta evidencia se aclaran

los dos momentos:

Primer momento: producción escrita individual:

1. Estudie a detalle el material de formación y material complementario

brindado para la transversal de inglés en esta actividad.
2. Lea y desarrolle completamente el taller: "Business meeting workshop",
usando la herramienta ofimática de su preferencia.
3. Adjunte y envíe el taller a su instructor en formato .doc o .pdf mediante el
enlace dispuesto en la plataforma de aprendizaje.

Segundo momento: producción oral grupal

1. El instructor programará la sesión virtual y definirá los equipos de

trabajo, el aprendiz deberá revisar constantemente los anuncios en la
página principal del programa de formación y los demás medios de
comunicación usados con el instructor para conocer la fecha y la hora.
2. Únase puntualmente a la sesión en línea programada por el instructor.
3. Juntos revisen el taller: "Business meeting workshop" de cada uno de los
integrantes del grupo (taller enviado previamente en el primer momento).
4. Seleccionen el greeting más apropiado para el diálogo: "Business
meeting dialogue".
5. Distribuyan los personajes entre los integrantes del grupo.
6. Practiquen el diálogo y realicen los ajusten necesarios.Tengan en cuenta
los tips de pronunciación que se trabajan en el material complementario.
7. El instructor se integrará a la sesión en línea y cuando el grupo esté
listo, escuchará la interpretación de los diálogos del equipo de trabajo.
8. Interprete el diálogo del personaje que le correspondió.
En caso de tener dudas relacionadas con la participación en una
videoconferencia, se recomienda consultar el video: Ingresar como participante
en Blackboard Collaborate, ubicado en el botón Tutoriales del menú del
programa de formación. Para información adicional consulte la biblioteca SENA
u otras fuentes de internet.

Pasos para enviar la evidencia:

 Clic en el título de la evidencia.

 Clic en Examinar mi equipo y buscar el archivo previamente guardado.
 Dejar un comentario al instructor (opcional).
 Clic en Enviar.

Business meeting workshop

In a working setting, to be able to speak in a second language, English in

particular, is a must. It allows to manage technical processes and opens up new
business opportunities. This is the reason why, this time, the training and
complementary material focuses on meetings; and it gives, not only some
important meeting expressions, but some meaningful tips on pronunciation.
Now, it's time for you to evidence your learning throughout this workshop.

1.Read the following verbs. Then, write its past form:

1
BEGIN BEGAN JOIN JOINED
CLOSE CLOSED MOVE MOVED
COMPLET PRESENT PRESENTED
E COMPLETED
RECEIVED
COVER COVERED RECEIVE
STATED
DELIVER DELIVERED STATE
VALUED
DEVELOP DEVELOPED VALUE
WAS WERE
DISCUSS DISCUSS IS
 The following dialogue. Then, fill in the gaps using the verbs on the
2 previous activity.

BUSINESS MEETING DIALOGUE

Taken and adapted from: thoughtco.com
1. INTRODUCTIONS

Begin the meeting with introductions with special attention paid to

newcomers.

Meeting Chairman: If we are all here, let's get started. First of all, I'd like you
to please join me in welcoming Jack Peterson, our Southwest Area Sales Vice
President.

Jack Peterson: Thank you for having me, I'm looking forward to today's
meeting.

Meeting Chairman: I'd also like to introduce Margaret Simmons who recently
has joined our team.
2. REVIEWING PAST BUSINESS

It's a good idea to review past business shortly before moving on to the
main topic of discussion.

Meeting Chairman: We're here today to discuss ways of improving sales in

rural market areas. First, let's go over the report from the last meeting which
was delivered on June 24th. Right, Tom, over to you.

Alex Young: Thank you Mark. Let me just summarize the main points of the
last meeting. We developed the meeting by approving the changes in our sales
reporting system closed on May 30th. After briefly revising the changes that
will take place, we began on to a brainstorming session concerning after
customer support improvements.
You'll find a copy of the main ideas recived and discussed in these sessions in the
photocopies in front of you. The meeting stated declared completed at 11.30.

3. BEGINNING THE MEETING

Make sure that everyone has an agenda of the meeting and stick to it.
Refer to the agenda from time to time during the meeting to keep the
discussion on track.

Meeting Chairman: Thank you Tom. So, if there is nothing else we need to
discuss, let's move on to today's agenda. Have you all presented a copy of
today's agenda? If you don't mind, I'd like to skip item 1 and move on to item 2:
Sales improvement in rural market areas. Jack has kindly agreed to give us a
report on this matter. Jack?

4. DISCUSSING ITEMS

Discuss items on the agenda making sure to paraphrase and clarify as

you move through the meeting.

Chris Morgan: Before I begin the report, I'd like to get some ideas from you
all. How do you feel about rural sales in your sales districts? I suggest we go
round the table first to get all of your input.

Alex Young: In my opinion, we have been focusing too much on urban

customers and their needs. The way I see things, we need to return to our rural
base by developing an advertising campaign to focus on their particular needs.

Anne Stevenson: I'm afraid I can't agree with you. I think rural customers
want to feel as important as our customers living in cities. I suggest we give
our rural sales teams more help with advanced customer information reporting.

Alex Young: Excuse me, I didn't catch that. Could you repeat that, please?
Anne Stevenson: I just stated that we need to give our rural sales teams better
customer information reporting.

Chris Morgan: I don't quite follow you. What exactly do you mean?

Anne Stevenson: Well, we provide our city sales staff with database
information on all of our larger clients. We should be providing the same sort of
knowledge on our rural customers to our sales staff there.

Chris Morgan: Would you like to add anything, Tom?

Alex Young: I must admit I never thought about rural sales that way before.

Chris Morgan: Well, let me begin with this Power Point presentation
(Chrispresents his report). As you can see, we are developing new methods to
reach out to our rural customers.

Anne Stevenson: I suggest we break up into groups and discuss the ideas
we've seen covered

5. FINISHING THE MEETING

Close the meeting by summarizing what's been discussed and scheduling the
next meeting.

Meeting Chairman: Unfortunately, we're running short of time. We'll have to

leave that to another time.

Jack Peterson: Before we close, let me just summarize the main points:

 Rural customers need special help to feel more valued

 Our sales teams need more accurate information on our customers.
 A survey will be delivered to collect data on spending habits in these
areas.
 The results of this survey Will presented be to our sales teaMs.

Meeting Chairman: Thank you very much Jack. Right, it looks as though
we've the main items Is there any other business?

Alex Young: Can we fix the next meeting, please?

Meeting Chairman: Good idea Donald. How does Friday in two weeks time
sound to everyone? Let's meet at the same time, 9 o'clock. Is that OK for
everyone? Excellent. I'd like to thank Chris for coming to our meeting today. The
meeting is moved

The previous dialogue doesn't include greetings at the beginning. Read the
3 dialogue againg and write the most appropriate greeting to start the
meeting.

Good morning, team, today I have called this meeting to discuss issues ofVital importance such as
our rural clients and also take the opportunity to present these to our two new team members, we
will develop them in an agile and effective way, for which I request the greatest concentration and
participation,

Nota: Recuerde revisar la guia de aprendizaje con el fin de verificar que ha

realizado todas las evidencias propuestas, saber cómo desarrollarlas y
entregarlas correctamente.

Criterios de
evaluación
 Dramatiza en inglés una historia breve utilizando verbos regulares e
irregulares.

 Saluda en Inglés utilizando expresiones de cortesía de acuerdo con el

momento del día