TalkDrill – Business English Meeting Phrases
TalkDrill – Business English Meeting Phrases is a phrase bank of more than fifty lines for meetings, sorted by the phase of the meeting rather than by theme. The phases are opening or joining, giving a status update on the done, doing and blocked pattern, giving an opinion, disagreeing politely, interrupting and handling an interruption, taking part in a video call, and closing with a summary and the action items. Each phase carries three to six phrases and a short explanation of when to use them.
100% Free (unlimited): The article and all of its phrases are open on the page, with no account and no payment, together with the comparison tables and the question and answer section. TalkDrill's guided speaking practice, where the same phrases can be rehearsed aloud, requires a free account.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page is organized as a series of questions, each answered with a short explanation and then a list of phrases: how to open or join, how to give a status update, how to offer an opinion, how to disagree without sounding rude, how to interrupt and how to bring a meeting back on track, what to say on a video call when the audio fails, and how to close with a summary and named action items.
You can take one phase a day and say its four or five lines aloud until they come out without thinking, which is what the page recommends and what makes a phrase available under pressure. The video call section is the practical one to keep open: it gives you the exact words for a cut connection, for sharing a screen and for handing the floor to someone by name.
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