Success: Negotiations Part 2

Watch the video until 1:37 and answer these questions:

a- What are the two conditions proposed by Victor? Why?
b- What expressions are used to show agreement?

Now, watch the presenter's explanations and answer the following questions:

c- What phrases can be used when giving a condition?

d- What can you say to introduce a problem?

e- Apart from the expressions that you wrote down in exercise b, what other expressions can be used to agree or disagree to conditions?

f- What phrase could be used when you think it might be a difficult condition for the other side to accept?

g- What expressions are usually employed when someone wants to signal a condition?

Success: negotiations

Watch the video until 1:32 and answer the following questions.

a- What's Lin's attitude towards the results of the negotiation? What about Victor and Sue?
b- What does John say about their terms? Does he sound confident?
c- What's Lin's proposal?

Watch the rest of the video and answer the questions below.

a- What's a negotiation?
b- What's the purpose of small talk? What questions can you ask?
c- What phrases can you use:

• to show it's time to start the negotiation?
• to make an opening statement?
• to state your point of view?

d- What does ´run it past the board' mean?

Success - Carlos Slim

Watch the video and mention at least three new things you've found out about him.