- Communicative Objective: Learn to participate confidently in advanced meetings, consultations, briefings, and strategic discussions by organizing contributions, redirecting discussion, clarifying implications, and synthesizing decisions.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- Before we move on, I would like to clarify one implication of the proposal that has not yet been addressed explicitly.
- If I may bring the discussion back to the original objective, the question is whether the proposed change actually improves the outcome we are trying to achieve.
- Building on what has already been said, I would suggest separating the immediate operational issue from the longer-term strategic question.
- Unless there are further objections, I suggest we treat this as a provisional decision and revisit it once the additional evidence becomes available.
- To summarize where we stand, there appears to be broad agreement on the objective, but not yet on the mechanism, timeline, or allocation of responsibility.
- Grammar Focus: Discourse-organizing clauses, polite interruption structures, participle clauses, conditional and temporal subordination, substitution, ellipsis, and complex coordination.
- Vocabulary Focus: implication, provisional, operational, strategic, consensus
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