Lesson 7: Running Effective Meetings and Making Decisions
A focused look at Italian expressions and structures for leading meetings, conducting negotiations, and expressing nuanced opinions using the subjunctive and conditional.
About this lesson
In this lesson, you will sharpen your Italian for professional settings: how to open and structure a meeting, propose solutions, and put forward carefully reasoned, well-argued positions. You will practise the subjunctive and conditional for hypotheses, conditions, and polite requests, as well as key idioms and expressions commonly heard in the office and in business news. You will work with short, authentic examples and build the skills needed to negotiate and reach consensus.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Use the subjunctive and conditional to express assumptions, recommendations, and conditions in a professional environment.
- Formulate nuanced opinions and soften statements with expressions of uncertainty and probability.
- Run a meeting from start to finish: opening, setting the agenda, discussion, wrap-up, and decisions.
- Use common idioms and collocations specific to negotiations and team coordination.
- Connect news information to decision-making and present concise summaries to a team.