Leading the Room: Meetings 2 and Presentations: guided B2+ practice

Why this group of lessons belongs together

Leading the Room: Meetings 2 and Presentations is organised around a workplace decision, not a list of phrases. The first lesson addresses this need: Can open, steer and close a meeting, manage a dominant speaker and build consensus through a contentious item. The final task checks this combined result: Quiz at 80 percent plus the speaking scenario. Practise with invented but realistic details, then adapt the language to your own authority, channel and relationship.

Level: B2+. This module contains 4 connected lessons. Follow the order when the topic is new, or use the lesson map to repair one specific gap.

The lesson map

What useful practice looks like

• Chairing: Keeping Time, Keeping Peace, Getting Decisions: Can open, steer and close a meeting, manage a dominant speaker and build consensus through a contentious item.
• Presentation Structure: Signposting From Hello to Questions: Can build a three-part presentation with signposted transitions and described visuals.
• Delivery and Q&A: Say It, Record It, Fix It, Say It Again: Can deliver the presentation fluently and handle three question types (clarifying, hostile, off-topic).

Use true information where possible. A sentence about your own routine, work or plans is easier to remember than a sentence copied from a model.

A study routine for Leading the Room: Meetings 2 and Presentations

1. Read the outcome for Chairing: Keeping Time, Keeping Peace, Getting Decisions before the examples.
2. Say or write one model, then change at least two details.
3. Complete the quiz before opening its answer panels.
4. Use the module checkpoint to produce Checkpoint: Three Minutes, Standing Up independently.
5. Return only to the lesson that matches the error you found.

How the lessons work together

Leading the Room: Meetings 2 and Presentations is a sequence, not a folder of unrelated pages. Chairing: Keeping Time, Keeping Peace, Getting Decisions establishes the first usable move. Later lessons add control, choice and time pressure. Checkpoint: Three Minutes, Standing Up asks you to combine the module without copying an answer.

• Chairing: Keeping Time, Keeping Peace, Getting Decisions: Can open, steer and close a meeting, manage a dominant speaker and build consensus through a contentious item
• Presentation Structure: Signposting From Hello to Questions: Can build a three-part presentation with signposted transitions and described visuals
• Delivery and Q&A: Say It, Record It, Fix It, Say It Again: Can deliver the presentation fluently and handle three question types (clarifying, hostile, off-topic)
• Checkpoint: Three Minutes, Standing Up: Quiz at 80 percent plus the speaking scenario

Keep one piece of evidence from the first lesson and improve the same piece at the checkpoint. That comparison shows more than a quiz score because it records what changed in your own language.

Use Leading the Room: Meetings 2 and Presentations beyond the course

After the checkpoint, change one variable: the listener, purpose, channel or time pressure. Keep the central meaning from Delivery and Q&A: Say It, Record It, Fix It, Say It Again while adapting the delivery. This shows whether the language is available outside the model.

If the result becomes unclear, compare it with the outcome for the exact lesson involved. Correct that gap instead of restarting unrelated work.

Start or continue the module

Your progress is saved on this device only.

1. 1Chairing: Keeping Time, Keeping Peace, Getting Decisions21 min, Not complete
2. 2Presentation Structure: Signposting From Hello to Questions22 min, Not complete
3. 3Delivery and Q&A: Say It, Record It, Fix It, Say It Again20 min, Not complete
4. 4Checkpoint: Three Minutes, Standing Up21 min, Not complete

How to know you are ready to continue

Do not judge readiness by reading speed. You are ready when you can complete the checkpoint task with a clear message, understandable language and no copied answer. A small number of errors is normal at B2+; errors should not hide your meaning.

If the checkpoint is difficult, repeat the lesson whose outcome matches the problem. That is faster than restarting the whole module.