听力文本如下:
To “lead (lead) the proceedings (proceedings)” means to run a meeting or guide a discussion.
Now that we have reviewed the new vocabulary, let's listen to the formal meeting again, this time at a normal rate of speech.
Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to introduce the participants who have graciously agreed to share their time with us today.
I believe that all of you already know me, Alex Aurora, the CEO of Vision Corporation.
On my immediate right is Ms. Hannah Graff, the account representative from our marketing consulting firm.
She has been a visionary leader in coordinating the focus groups and helping us identify our target market.
On my far right, the gentleman in the gray suit is Mr. Chris Banda, who is the Senior Vice President of Product Development.
Over the past few months, he has shown great flexibility and willingness to adapt his product features to better meet our customers' needs.
And last but not least, I'd like to introduce our Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mr. Shawn Edwards.
He has been coordinating our marketing efforts for the past seven years, and his hard work is culminating in today's presentation.
With that, I'll turn it over to our Senior Vice President of Marketing, Shawn Edwards, who will lead the proceedings today.
Thank you to all of you for being here, and welcome.
Now that we have a better understanding of the formal meeting, let's listen to the same introductions at an informal meeting.
In the formal meeting, Alex introduced all the other participants.
In the informal meeting, you'll see that everyone is much more relaxed as the participants introduce themselves, using each other's first names.
Before we dive into the presentation, I should probably start by saying that I'm Alex Aurora, the CEO of Vision Corporation, just in case there's anyone here who hasn't met me in person before today.
Could I please get our key team members to introduce themselves? Hannah, why don't we start with you? Hannah: Sure.
I'm Hannah Graff, an account representative from the marketing firm that has been doing the focus groups.
Today I'll be talking about your target market.
It's my pleasure to join all of you today.
I'm Christopher Hanson, the Senior V.P. of Product Development.
I've been tweaking our product so that it's a better fit for what our customers are looking for.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Shawn Edwards, Senior V.P. of Marketing.
I've spent the past few months trying to keep up with all the great work that Hannah and Chris have been doing.
Great, thanks.
Now I'm going to turn it over to Shawn who will be running the show today.