Controlling
CONTROLLING
Grammar Pattern
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- Have you ever been in a meeting where the discussion went completely off topic? How was it handled?
회의 중 논의가 완전히 주제에서 벗어난 적이 있나요? 그때 어떻게 대처했나요? - What do you think is the most polite way to bring a meeting back on track when someone keeps going off the agenda?
누군가 계속 안건에서 벗어날 때, 회의를 다시 본 궤도로 돌리는 가장 정중한 방법은 무엇이라고 생각하나요?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
Grammar Pattern
Active listening: responding to motivate
Right.
OK. Yes, I see.
Thank you.
Active listening: reformulating to clarify
In other words, …
So you think that…
You mean that…
Moving off the point
Could I digress for a minute?
It’s not on the agenda but…
Keeping to the agenda
I think we are digressing. Can we come back to the main question?
I think we’re getting sidetracked. The main question is…
I’m not sure that is strictly relevant. Can we turn to…
That is outside the scope of this meeting. Can we stick to the agenda, please?
Referring forward
We’ll come to that later.
We’ll be dealing with that in a moment.
Can we get to that later?
Referring back
As we said earlier, …
We have already discussed this.
Postponing
Shall we skip this item?
I think we can forget point four. We’ve already discussed it.
I suggest that we deal with this at another meeting.
Length of meeting
We’re pretty short of time.
Can we move on?
That’s fifteen minutes on this. We agreed ten minutes per item. Let’s move on.
Confirming a decision
OK. So we have decided to…
Does everyone agree with that?
Is that clear?
Closing and moving on
I think that’s everything on that.
Can we leave this point now and move on to the next item?
The next item on the agenda is…
Now, we come to the question of…
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
한국어 '요점에서 벗어나다'를 직역하여 "out of the point"라고 말하는 경우가 많습니다. 영어에서는 "getting sidetracked," "going off topic," 또는 "moving off the point"와 같은 표현을 사용합니다. 회의를 다시 본 주제로 이끌 때는 "Can we come back to the main question?"처럼 자연스러운 표현을 함께 사용해 보세요.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
- How would you apply what you learned today?
오늘 배운 것을 어떻게 활용하시겠어요? - What was the most useful part of this lesson?
이 수업에서 가장 유용한 부분은 무엇이었나요? - Can you think of a real situation where you would use this?
이것을 사용할 실제 상황을 생각해 볼 수 있나요? - What would you like to practice more?
더 연습하고 싶은 것은 무엇인가요?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: CONTROLLING
Level: Business (BIZ)
Review this lesson before your next class! / 다음 수업 전에 복습하세요!