Answer — Exercise 5
10.3 - Making a plan·Speakout Advanced - Students' Book
Question
Read the phrases for negotiating. Which ones did the man use? Check your answers in audio script 10.5 on page 175.
Answer
naming your objectives
- We want to sort this out as soon as possible.
exploring positions
- What do you have in mind?
making conditional offers
- If you do ... for me, I'll do ... for you.
- What if we supported your idea?
refusing an offer
- That would be difficult for me because of ...
- I'm not sure I can do that because ...
accepting an offer
- Good. That sounds acceptable to me.
- Great. We've got a deal.
following up on the deal
- Let me know if you have any queries.