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Lesson 2 Introducing the Participants

Welcome to ESLPod.com's “Business Meetings” course.

I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

In the first lesson of “Business Meetings,” we learned business vocabulary for starting formal and informal business meetings.

In this second lesson, we're going to learn how to introduce the participants, the people who are at the meeting.

Let's get started by listening to the formal meeting.

Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to introduce the participants who have graciously agreed to share their time with us today.

I believe that all of you already know me, Alex Aurora, the CEO of Vision Corporation.

On my immediate right is Ms. Hannah Graff, the account representative from our marketing consulting firm.

She has been a visionary leader in coordinating the focus groups and helping us identify our target market.

On my far right, the gentleman in the gray suit is Mr. Chris Banda, who is the Senior Vice President of Product Development.

Over the past few months, he has shown great flexibility and willingness to adapt his product features to better meet our customers' needs.

And last but not least, I'd like to introduce our Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mr. Shawn Edwards.

He has been coordinating our marketing efforts for the past seven years, and his hard work is culminating in today's presentation.

With that, I'll turn it over to our Senior Vice President of Marketing, Shawn Edwards, who will lead the proceedings today.

Thank you to all of you for being here, and welcome.

Alex starts by saying, “Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to introduce the participants.”

To “take a moment” means to do something for a short period of time or to pause or interrupt something for a short time.

In this case, he is delaying the beginning of the meeting because he wants to introduce the participants first.

For example, you might “take a moment” to put on your jacket before you go outside.