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Meetings 1

Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. Choose from the following: agenda, any other business, chair, closed, decision, item, matters arising, meeting, minutes, monthly, point, room, start. Then press "Check" to check your answers.

(Source: Professional English. Business: General. by Steve Flinders. Harlow: Penguin English Guides, 2003, pp. 54-55).
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1. It was a terrible .
2. It was planned to at nine o’clock.
3. But no one had the .
4. And no one knew which to go to.
5. The arrived at 9.15. At last we thought we could start.
6. But no one had the of the last meeting, so the secretary had to go and look for them – and to make copies of the agenda.
7. It took a long time to go through the from the last meeting.
8. At last we got to the main on the agenda.
9. We talked for two hours but did not reach a .
10. There was no time for .
11. The chair declared the meeting just before midday.
12. Thank goodness it’s only a meeting.