Meeting deadlines is crucial for success in a business environment and understanding the verb 'meet' in different tenses is essential.
Missing deadlines can have negative consequences and understanding the verb-noun collocation is important for personal and professional contexts.
Deep dives
Meeting Deadlines
One of the main points discussed in the podcast is the importance of meeting deadlines. To meet a deadline means to finish something at the designated time. In a business environment, meeting deadlines is crucial for success. The speaker emphasizes the significance of knowing how to meet deadlines and mentions that everyone, including herself, has deadlines in their jobs. Students often make mistakes with the conjugation of the verb 'meet' in different tenses, but it is a common and essential verb to know in a professional setting.
Missing Deadlines
Another key point covered in the podcast is the concept of missing deadlines. To miss a deadline is to fail to finish something within the allotted time. The speaker highlights that missing deadlines can have negative consequences, leading to potential disappointment from bosses or clients. She explains that sometimes people need to prioritize tasks and may have to put non-essential ones on the back burner, making them less of a priority. The importance of understanding this verb-noun collocation is emphasized, as it is a common occurrence in both personal and professional contexts.
Having and Extending Deadlines
The podcast also discusses the verb-noun collocation 'having a deadline' and 'extending a deadline.' Having a deadline simply means possessing or being assigned a specific timeframe to complete a task. The speaker shares her own experience of giving herself deadlines as a way to stay focused and to get things done. On the other hand, extending a deadline means adding additional time to the initial timeframe. This could be due to a variety of reasons, such as the need for further review or a lack of resources. The speaker acknowledges the common occurrence of extending deadlines in certain projects and tasks.
THIS IS AN ANNA WITH 2Ns EPISODE BEFORE THE RE BRAND TO CONFIDENT BUSINESS ENGLISH. I RECOMMEND STARTING WITH THE MOST RECENT EPISODES FIRST.
Deadlines! Beautiful things, or not! We ALL have them but are you talking about them correctly in English?
In this episode I'm talking about 4 of the MOST COMMON verbs that we use with DEADLINES. This episode is ESSENTIAL if you are working or studying as this is vocabulary that you will probably have to use at some point in your life, perhaps in your job, with colleagues or in an interview.
I teach business students and I wanted to do this episode because these verbs are often ones that my students don't know or haven't heard before.