AIMS: Vocabulary related to rights an d responsibilities • Understanding sentence structure • Matching sentence endings

1a. The following words are related to professional meetings and responsibilities. Write the words in the correct categories. Use a bilingual dictionary to help you.

1b. Complete the text with words from exercise There may be more than one possibility. You may need to change some words to plural.

Beech Lane School Parent
of the meeting held on October, 2012.
Apologies were received from Mrs Smart. There were two points covered:

1. Because of the long-term absence of Mrs Smart, we will have a/an for a new to lead the meetings.We need all the two weeks before the next meeting. Any who attends that meeting will be able to take part in the .

2. The school fair was discussed. A list of duties was drawn up and will be sent to everybody by Friday. It's expected that everyone will do their best to help out on the day.

1c. Which words are being defined? Try to write the answers without looking back at the previous exercises.

1. : a group of people that controls a group or organization

2. : a group of people chosen or appointed to perform a specified service or function

3. : a person who handles correspondence, keeps records, and does general clerical work for an individual, organization, etc.

4. : an official record of the proceedings of a meeting, conference, convention. etc.

5. : a person who has authority at a meeting, a committee, a debate, a department, etc.