Practise Your Language Skills

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Language of Meeting Part 1

A common confusion at B1 level is using 'postpone' and 'cancel' interchangeably. To postpone means to move something to a later time, while to cancel means to stop it entirely. In meetings, 'we postponed the discussion' means it will happen later, while 'we cancelled the meeting' means it will not happen at all. For the conditionals, remember: use the first conditional for real situations that can actually happen ('if we finish early, we will have time for AOB'), and the second conditional for imaginary or unlikely ones ('if I were the chair, I would always send the minutes the same day').