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File 1: Non-Verbatim Style

Business Result

Unit 3: Chairing a meeting

[Narrator]: Marcus White is the managing director of Quartz Power Group, an energy company. Every month the departmental managers meet to discuss high-level issues in the company. Marcus is leading this month’s meeting.

[Marcus White]: Good morning everyone. Thank you very much for being here on time. We’ve got a lot to do today. Let’s get started, Everyone’s here, apart from John in facilities. We have apologies from him.

Has everyone got a copy of the agenda? Good! Can I draw your attention to item four, where it says, “Presentation of online survey results.” The presentation is going to be given by Miss Patricia Reyes, who is a representative of the research company we contracted to carry out the work. Miss Reyes will arrive at 11:30, so I plan to break at about 11:15 to give her time to set up. It may also mean that we need to interrupt the first few agenda items, but we’ll come back to those.

Lastly, I’d like to leave a little bit of time under any other business to discuss whatever might come out of the presentation.

Item one is relocation and plans for flexible working. As you know, Paul and his team have been working on plans to extend flexible working hours across the company. Paul, perhaps I can begin by asking you to fill us in on your progress.

[Paul]: Thanks Marcus. As Marcus said … [00:01:58]

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[Marcus White]: Thank you very much, indeed, Paul. On behalf of everyone, I’d like to say thank you, to you and to your team for all the hard work that you’ve put in so far on this project. I really appreciate it. Before we move on to item two, are there any comments anyone would like to make on item one? No?

Maya, I’m aware that flexible working hours has a particular impact on some of your team. Do you have any thoughts on that?

[Maya]: From my point of view, what Paul is proposing sounds fine. I am a bit concerned about working with a system of core hours, and then flexible hours. I think we all need time to read through Paul’s proposal in more detail before discussing it any further.

[Marcus White]: That sounds reasonable. What do other people think? Do you agree with Maya that we need to look through the proposal in more detail first? Yes? I’m sure we can return to it at next month‘s meeting. Good. Are we all OK to move onto the next point?

The up-and-coming board meeting. We don’t need to spend too much time on this. There are one or two issues which we need to be aware of. Lydia, can you warn me if we go beyond ten minutes on this one. [00:03:39]

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[Marcus White]: Those two people will be replacing the two members of the board who are leaving us. That’s everything, I think, on item two.

Moving on to item three. And the cost breakdown for the relocation. Maya, thank you very much for emailing the current figures to all of us. I hope that we’ve all had time to look at them, to read them through. Maya, is there anything that you want to add, before I open this up for questions?

[Maya]: Not really, nothing’s changed since it was sent out, as far as I know.

[Marcus White]: Are there any questions arising from Maya’s report? Matt, you look as if you might have a question.

[Matt]: Yes. I suppose I do. It’s more of a comment. The fact is, IT will have the highest cost attached to this relocation in terms of moving equipment. I’ll also have need to bring quite a few contract people to help. The figures in here don’t seem to be the same as the estimates I gave you. It’s all going to require quite a lot of overtime in my department.

[Maya]: I have allocated some of the costs to the budgets of other departments. That seemed the fairest way to do it, otherwise IT is responsible for a large part of the relocation costs.

[Matt]: Do you mean that any IT costs related to marketing will be covered by the marketing budget?

[Maya]: Yes, in a way. This might help clarify it. I’ve broken the IT department up into segments.

[Marcus White]: I’m sorry. Can we continue this discussion after lunch? The lady from the research company is waiting to join us and to present her results.

Before we take our break, I just want to summarize where we are so far.

My understanding is, that Maya has tried to allocate the relocation costs across departments as far as is possible. Matt feels that IT is still taking too many costs. Is that right?

[Matt]: That’s about right.

[Marcus White]: Good. Let’s take a break now. Can we all be back here promptly at 11:30 to continue where we left off? Lydia, could you bring Miss Reyes up, please?

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File 2: Verbatim Style

One minute of Kaine and Pence talking over each other

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[Pence]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:01] Ukraine, or now their heavy-handed approach. Their heavy-handed approach … well, hang on there.

[Kaine]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:01] You you guys love Russia … you you both have said … you you both have said Vladimir Putin is better than [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:07]

[Moderator]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:06] Gentlemen, we’re going to get to Russia in just a moment.

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[Pence]: In this country [CROSSTALK 00:00:13] the [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:14] literally [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:16]

[Kaine]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:13] And pay it in taxes .. and lost abillion dollars a year.

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[Kaine]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:17] You you are Donald Trum uh Trump’s apprentice. Let let me talk about this issue [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:22]

[Pence]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:17] [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:18] Don’t … um … Senator, senator, I think I’m still on my time.

[Kaine]: Well, I think I - are - isn’t this a discussion?

[Moderator]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:24] This is an open discussion.

[Kaine}: [CROSSTALK 00:00:25] [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:25] Let’s talk about this the state of [LABOR 00:00:27] … no …

[Pence]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:25] Well, well, let me interrupt you, let me interrupt you and finish my sentence if i can.

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[Pence]: While she was secretary of state. [CROSSTALK 00:00:31] She had a private server that was discovered to keep that pay-to-play process out of the reach of the public

[Kaine]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:31] OK, now I can weigh in. Now, no, I, I get to weigh in now. Let me just say tha- [00:00:36]

[Moderator]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:36] I think I did [WRITE/RIGHT 00:00:37] Senator, please, uh, you have an opportunity to speak next.

[Kaine]: Governor Pence, Governor Pence.

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[Pence]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:41] Because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate. Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton

[Kaine}: [CROSSTALK 00:00:41] If you want to [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:43] More American troops to Iraq, you can propose that.

[Moderator]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:46] Are - all right.

[Pence]: Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement.

[Kaine]: No, that is incorrect.

[Moderator]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:50] Gentlemen, we’ll get to those issues in just a moment. I’d like to move on to [UNINTELLIGIBLE 00:00:56]

[Pence}: [CROSSTALK 00:00:51] And so we remove we removed all of our troops from Iraq and ISIS was able to be conjured up in that vacuum and overrun vast areas of Iraq.

[Kaine]: [CROSSTALK 00:00:55] But I’d like to correct … Governor

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