How to start a zoom or google meet meeting?

Welcoming Phrases
 Welcome, everyone. Today’s meeting is about…
 Welcome to today’s meeting. These are the issues that we want to talk about. 
 Welcome, everyone. This is our agenda.
 Welcome, everyone. The purpose of today’s meeting is…
 Welcome, everyone. The meeting today is going to last no more than an hour.
 Welcome, everyone. Thank you all for attending (at such short notice).

Technical Issues
 I am having trouble hearing you.
 I think I may have a problem with the connection.
 The screen is blank.
 The screen is frozen / You’re frozen.
 The image and sound are out of sync.
 You’re breaking up a little bit.
 There’s a bit of an echo on the line.

Moving On In An Online Meeting

 Let’s move on to the next item
 Moving on, let’s take a look at the item number…
 Let’s pencil in another meeting for next Wednesday.
Okay, guys, there’s a bit of a time issue here. So I think we should move on.

Interrupting An Online Meeting

 Sorry, would you mind if I asked a question?
 Just to clarify are you saying that…
 Could I interrupt you for a minute?
 Would you mind if I jumped in there, please?
 Would you mind if I butted in? (American English)
Can I stop you for just one minute, please?
 One minute please, it seems we haven’t discussed…
 Asking For Clarification
 Could you speak more slowly, please
 Could you repeat/explain that again?
 Could you repeat that last bit, please?
 Could you speak up please (a little louder)?
 I didn’t get that I am sorry could you say it again?
Could you go through that again because I didn’t quite understand it?

Tell The Person What You’re Doing

 Let me share my screen with you.
 Can I share my screen with you?
 I’m going to share my screen / desktop.
 I’m going to pull up my presentation.
 Can you see what I’m showing you?
 Do you want me to make it bigger?

Other Phrases To Start A Meeting

 Are we good to go?
 Is everybody ready to start?
 Let’s get the meeting started.
 Ok, let’s get started, shall we?
Ok, let’s kick off.
 Let’s get the ball rolling (get the ball rolling = begin).

Summarising And Closing A Meeting

 In summary, we’re going to…
 This is what we’ve agreed on…
 I think we can leave this here for today.
 I think this is a good place to leave things today.
 We can pick this up again tomorrow/next week/on Wednesday.

OTHER COMMON PHRASES FOR ONLINE MEETING

1. What do you think? : Please give your opinion on …..
 2. “My apologies for interrupting. Please continue.” : sorry please continue
3. What can I do to help? : how can I help you on this

4. Thanks for being here.” : Thanks for joining

5. Tell me more about that.” : please briefs me on ….. , provide more detail
on …..
6. “You did a great job on ____.”

7. “Why don’t you go ahead and take this one.” : take the ownership or
guide them or give it a frest start .

8. “Can you please repeat that?”

9. I appreciate that.”