Business English B2, Comtrade, November 2019

Meetings
Collocations – Use appropriate verb-noun collocations to make meaningful sentences.

Verbs: circulate, take, put forward, reject, set, hold, chair, tackle, reach
Nouns: minutes, meeting, objective, problems, plan, suggestion, agenda

1. We ______________ a regular ______________ every Monday morning.

2. At the beginning of every meeting, we ______________ the ______________.
3. Then we appoint someone to ______________ the ______________ so we have a record of
what happened.
4. At the meeting, we try to ______________ any ______________ that have come up.
5. Usually, it is very easy to ______________ an ______________ but it’s far more difficult to
_____________ it.
6. That was the first time I’ve had to ______________ a ______________, and I found
controlling everybody rather difficult.
7. They argued for an hour, until someone ______________ a new ______________ for
handling the issues.
8. I was very disappointed because the Board totally ______________ my ______________.