This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about negotiating!
Negotiating is an important skill for life. Negotiation is something that comes up in work, in our personal lives and more. It’s something that most people will do.
But how good are we at this essential skill? How often do we get to practice? Have you had to negotiate the price on an expensive purchase, or maybe negotiated your salary?
Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about negotiating!
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Conversation Questions: How to Negotiate!
- 1. Have you ever had to negotiate something? What was it?
- 2. Can you remember a time you failed to negotiate something? What was the outcome?
- 3. Do you like negotiating? Why or why not?
- 4. What are some common negotiation strategies?
- 5. How important is preparation in a negotiation?
- 6. What makes a successful negotiation?
- 7. Should negotiation be taught in school?
- 8. Should we ever compromise in negotiations?
- 9. What is the most famous negotiation in history?
- 10. “Any negotiation involves compromise and no one will get everything they want.” What do you think of this quote?
Vocabulary
- Negotiate
- to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Outcome
- a result or effect of an action, situation, etc.
- Strategy
- a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport, or the skill of planning for such situations
- Preparation
- the things that you do or the time that you spend getting ready for something
- Compromise
- an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree
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Model Answers & Vocabulary
To help you prepare for the Thinking in English conversation club this week, the wonderful English tutor Thomas Brock has created vocabulary lists and some model answers.
The model answers are split into intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced level responses. Hopefully this will give you an idea on the differences in quality between intermediate and advanced response, and perhaps inspire your own answers to these questions!
B1 (Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
B2 (Upper Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
C1 (Advanced Level)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
See you all at this week’s conversation club!
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