Overview & Goals

MODULE 7 · TALENT TALK — ENGLISH FOR HR

Meetings with International Teams

The call with head office is where your work becomes visible — or invisible.

In this module you will learn to hold your own in a meeting where you are not the strongest speaker in the room: getting into the conversation, interrupting without rudeness, checking you understood, reporting decisions accurately afterwards, and making sure the actions have names and dates attached.

🎯 By the end of this module, you will be able to:

open and chair a call with colleagues in other countries;
interrupt, come back in, and ask someone to repeat — without apologising for existing;
check understanding before a misunderstanding becomes a decision;
report what was said using reported speech;
write minutes that make actions and owners impossible to miss.

🔤 Grammar in this module. Reported speech (she said that…, they asked whether…) — the grammar of every set of minutes you will ever write — and prepositions of time and place. Each has a short explanation and G1–G4 practice.

📦 What’s inside this module

Reading — Whose Morning Is It Anyway?: whose time zone the meeting really belongs to, with key vocabulary.
Vocabulary — eight flip-cards with pronunciation.
Useful Language — phrases for getting in, checking and closing with actions, with a dialogue to listen to.
Writing Practice — The Minutes: a short task with instant feedback from an AI coach.
Podcast — a trainer on running a meeting worth attending, with transcript and a short quiz.
Roleplay — The Call With Head Office, with the AI Tutor, out loud or in writing.
Unit Review & Final Quiz — revision notes, then everything from the module (you need 70% to pass).

🤖 Stuck on a phrase? Ask the AI Tutor at any point in this module — a word, a phrase, “is this too direct?”

You do not need to be the loudest voice on the call. You need to be the clearest. Let’s begin. 🚀