Oral English 2

skills

• slow down your speaking speed
• select your words carefully

• give yourself time to think
• relax
• "that's a good question. Let me think for a moment"
• "I haven't thought about it beofre ... "
• "Well ... I suppose ... "
• "well, during the day ..."
• "In the meantime why don't we ..."
• "It's been a long time since ... "
• "Sorry to trouble you ... but ... "
• "would you mind if ..."
• "oh! come on" ...
• "I'm just kidding ... "

• learn complete sentences
• learn to listen
• listen what others are saying

• practice asking questions
• "what are your views on that?"
• "How about you, what do you think?"

• produce english by writing

how to negotiate

• Making your position clear
• "I suggest starting small and scaling up later"
• "We're thinking of starting with around 500 units per SKU"
• "We'd prefer to keep things flexible to begin with"

• asking questions - more information
• "what kind of volumes are we looking at?"
• "What's the situation regarding production and delivery?"
• "what do u have in mind exactly?"
• "And that would be per-month, or ...?"

• Setting conditoins - suggest sometimes or possibilities
• "if ..., would you be able to go ..."
• "If we commit to a longer contract, can you offer us a better price?"
• "If we agreed to ..., would that make the deal work for you?"

• "Assuming that you need ..., we could offer ... "
• "Supposing you could commit to ..., we could go ..."
• "As long as there were some limitations on the delivery timing, I think that would be acceptable."

+ "As long as" has opposite meaning, this means the limitations are necessary

• Expressing disagreement - could direct
• "We won't be able to offer you the lower price. "
• "We can't offer our best prices without a regular commitment on your part"
• "We're not willing to absorb those costs"

• "I'll come right out and say that's not going to work for us"
• "There's no way around this"
• "I'm sorry but I have to draw a line here"

• "Shall we take 5 minitues break"

• Introducing new ideas
• "I have a proposal which I hope can make this work for everyone. "
• "Here's my solution: "
• "I will make another offer "

• Asking for new ideas
• "What's your idea?"
• "What would you suggest?"

• Reacting to new ideas
• "That's a good offer"
• "I think this should be feasible."

• Summarize what you agreed and outline next steps
• "Let's go through the main points: "
• "Regarding delivery,"

• "We still need to settle the exact details of "
• "There's also the mattle of ... "

• "We'll put this in writing"
• "We'll send you a provisional agreement"
• "We can work on getting a contract drawn up"

polite

request

• can, could, man, might

"Can I have .., please?"

decline

• "That is a good idea. I would like to join in but I have another appointment today."

sorry

• "I want to apologise." "I owe you an apology" "my mistake" "I want to apologise for my behavior / to someone" "I sincerely apologise" .. "I take full responsibly ..."

reference

• [voscreen](https://www.voscreen.com/life/20258/1tt11pr15jtk40zz22/en)