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Ten Days in Manchester
An interactive intermediate business English course featuring Tony Marshall and May Hunter

Days:

Registering at a conference

This unit is all about registering at a conference or exhibition.

You will learn phrases and words that will help you the next time you try to pre-register at a conference, or register at the actual event.

Begin the journey here
	It's the second day of Tony and May's trip and they are at the Sun, Sea and Sand travel conference and exhibition. Look at the photo, what are they doing? Find out by choosing Good Day or Bad Day below.

	Good Day

	Bad Day

			Quiz

	Now test your knowledge about Day 2 >

Meet the People

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A day in the life of a conference organiser >

Some useful vocabulary

conference	a place where people can meet to talk about business
conference pack	a set of papers with information about the conference
delegate	someone who goes to a conference or exhibition
exhibition	a place where a business person can show their products to customers
registration fee	the money you pay to go into a conference or exhibition