ENG: Chairing and leading discussion

Opening the meeting

Thank you for coming…

(It’s ten o’clock). Let’s start…

We’ve received apologies from…

Any comments on our previous meeting?

Introducing the agenda

You’ve all seen the agenda…

On the agenda, you’ll see there are three items…

There is one main item to discuss…

Stating objectives

We’re here today to hear about plans for…
Our objective is to discuss different ideas…

What we want to do today is to reach a decision…

Introducing discussion

The background to the problem is…

The issue is…

The point we have to understand is…