Vocabulari i expressions per a l'organització d'esdeveniments en anglès

Estructura d'una presentació

Opening: greet + intro, topic, clear WIIFM, timing, tools, rules, outline

Middle: structure of 3, signalling words

Closing: 1st sentence, summary, motivating end, thank you / Qs?

Vocabulari sobre esdeveniments

Amenities: facilities of the venue

Ancillary events: additional complementary events

Attendees

Audio visual (A/V)

Auditorium: meeting room

Budget

Collateral: posters, pens…

Early bird

Emcee / MC: host

Food and beverages

Guests

Headliner

Honorarium: fee paid to a guest speaker

Hybrid event: live and online

In-person event

Itinerary

Keynote speaker: opening session that sets the tone or theme of the event

Livestream

On-site staff

Pre-registration

Venue

Expressions

To set the tone: to create the right mood.

To run smoothly: when something goes as planned.

To oversee: to supervise.

Phrasal verbs

Add up: gradually increase

Bring forward: change an event to an earlier date

Call off: to cancel

Come about: how or when something happens.

Go about: the way you go about a task or problem is the way you deal with it

Hang out

Let down: to disappoint someone

Look forward to

Map out: work out in detail how you will do something

Run into: experience a situation

Pay for

Pull off: achieve something difficult

Put on: organize an event

Show up: appear

Stand out: to be much better than other similar things

Diversitat, inclusió i equitat

POC: people of color

Tokenism: a workplace hires people of different backgrounds to appear diverse, but does not treat them equally.

Racial tensions

Left: a political leaning

Inclusion: a policy of ensuring that equal opportunities and resources are given to all groups

Uplift: to raise up, increase

Right

Revenue: income generated from a business

Hold accountable: making someone responsible for their actions

Tackle: fight against something

Parity: achieve equality

Disparity: not equal

Diversity: having people of different ages, backgrounds, etc. in the same group

Temps narratius

Els temps narratius serveixen per:

• Explicar les accions principals d'una història en un moment concret (a museum opened).
• Descriure l'escena i les accions en curs en aquest moment (as the first visitors were walking, the VIPs were drinking champagne when the power went out).
• Expressar accions que van passar abans de l'esdeveniment principal (the organisers had been working on the event for months).

Used to i would

Used to: solia

Would: coses que es repetien una vegada i una altra