Using English at Work：16 Attending the Morning Meeting(2)（在线收听）

After I sat down, the manager passes out a handout of the meeting agenda.

A "manager" is a person who is in charge of, or responsible for, a department or a team at work.

At a large company, for example, a salesperson begins working as a sales representative and, if he or she does well, might become a sales manager in a few years.

If he or she continues to do well, perhaps they will later become Vice President of Sales.

At this meeting, my manager passes out a handout of the meeting agenda.

A "handout" is a piece of paper that has information about the things that will be talked about during a meeting or a presentation.

At the university, in the classes, the professors will often have handouts, things that they will give the students to look at that are related to their lecture or presentation.

Each person at the meeting or presentation gets a copy of the handout.

A presenter might give out handouts that have his or her contact information, for example, or handouts could have detailed financial information about a project.

In this case, the handout is of the meeting agenda itself.

An "agenda" is a plan for a meeting, showing what needs to be done, what needs to be discussed, in what order those things will be discussed.

My manager's handout of the meeting agenda is a piece of paper with a list of all the things that will be discussed during today's meeting.

The handout has some announcements on it.

An "announcement" is something that is written or said to let other people know about something.

Your company president may make an announcement, saying that everyone can take Friday off - have Friday as a vacation day.

That would never actually happen; that's just an example!

My manager goes over some bullet points on the handout.

"To go over something" means to talk about something, usually a document or report.

You might also go over your notes a few minutes before an exam to help yourself remember the most important things that you've studied - or that you didn't study!