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Next he says, "Does this time on Tuesday work for everyone?" The expression "to work for someone" means to be convenient for someone, or not to create problems for someone.
He's saying that he thinks the weekly meetings should be every Tuesday, but he wants to make sure that this won't conflict with other plans and activities - it won't get in the way of, it won't be at the same time of something else.You might answer this question by saying, "Yes, that works for me," meaning you will be able, in this case, to meet every Tuesday without problems.
Finally, Shawn suggests that the group try meeting every Tuesday for two months and then decide whether it wants to continue meeting so frequently, or so often.Let's listen to Shawn at the informal meeting one more time, this time when he's speaking at a native rate.
We're almost out of time, so we need to end our question-and answer session.I think we're heading down the right path with today's discussion, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us.
For us to move ahead with these changes, we'll need to create two committees: one for our new marketing campaign, and one for improving our product.Hannah and Chris, I'd like you to be in charge of each of these committees.
It will be important for everyone to get together regularly so that we can monitor the committees' progress.Let's plan on meeting once a week.
Does this time on Tuesday work for everyone? Let's try it for two months and then we can make a decision as to whether we'd like to continue meeting so frequently.I hope this lesson has helped you understand how to end a topic and prepare for the future at formal and informal business meetings.
In our tenth and final, or last, lesson, we're going to learn vocabulary for ending a meeting and, with that, we will end our "Business Meetings" course.
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