Uful Expressions and Sentence Patterns
1.Opening the meeting
●Ladies and gentlemen! Will you plea be quiet and be ated?
●Plea be quiet, everyone! Plea be ated. I’d like to open the morning/afternoon/evening ssion.
●Well, everyone, It’s 8 o’clock now. So I’d like to call the morning ssion to order.
●On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to / am happy / privileged to declare/announce the conference open.
●It’s great pleasure/privilege for me to begin/open/start the conference.
●Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention plea? The meeting/minar will come to order / is now in order / is called to order.
2.Self-introduction
●I’m Wang Yu from Sun Yat-n University. It’s a privilege for me to chair this ssion.
●Let me introduce mylf. I’m Li Jinsong from Peking University. I am the chairperson for this morning’s ssion.
●I am Philip Wang from Nanjing University, China. I want to express, on behalf of Professor Chao, my colleague who is expected to chair this ssion, his regret about not being able to be prent.
3.Introducing co-chairman
●It is a great pleasure for me to share the chairmanship with Professor D. Harris from Stockholm, Swede.
●Dr. Yang, who was expected to be the co-chairman for this symposium, could not attend this meeting due to illness. We are honored, however, to have in his place as the co-chairman Dr. Li on my left. Dr. Li is the director for the Nankai Linguistics Institute. We are extraordinarily plead and honored to have him here today to cochair this meeting.
4.Introducing the theme of the ssion
●The purpo /aim of our meeting today is to review the Development in ESL Teaching and Learning.
●What we are going to do this morning is to review the Relation Between Students’ Learning Strategies and Performance.
●This ssion will deal with/be devoted to HIV Treatment and Care in the New Century.
5.Introducing a keynote speaker
●The speaker’s past and prent experience
Dr. John Smith is a professor and the chairperson of the Food Science and Technology Department at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
●The speaker’s educational background Dr. Lee’s B.S. degree is from Rutgers University. His Ph.D. is from University of Massachutts under the guidance of Professo
r Fergus Clydesdale, a renowned food policy expert and personal mentor.
●The speaker’s achievement (works and articles)
●The speaker’s speaking experience
●The awards and honor of the speaker
●The prentation topic of a speaker
6.Complimenting on speeches and introducing the next speaker
●Thank you, Mr. Carwell. Your speech is the absolutely pure gold, very inspiring. We are delighted to be able to share your new specific strategies and techniques. I think everyone wants to be a millionaire, to make a big fortune. The crets of creating fortune and success will be greatly cherished by the people prent here. Now, let’s welcome our next speaker, Professor King.
●Thank you very much for your worthwhile/enlightening/
informative prentation. Let’s welcome the next speaker Professor Zhu Lei with warm applau.
7.Adjourning or closing a ssion
●As you re well aware our ssion has now come to an end and, like you, I am now looking forward to lunch. Now remember, we reasmble at 2:00in the afternoon, and I thank you for your attendance.
●I declare the ssion adjourned until
●We have had five papers prented. Let’s have a break before we start the discussion. You may prepare some questions relating to the five prentations during the recess. Our meeting will be resumed at 4:30.
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