- Communicative Objective: Learn to negotiate complex professional or institutional matters by balancing competing interests, establishing conditions, signaling flexibility, and protecting essential priorities.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- We would be prepared to reconsider the timeline, provided that the revised arrangement does not compromise the quality standards already agreed upon.
- If greater flexibility on implementation is important to your team, we would need comparable flexibility regarding resource allocation.
- Our preference would be to preserve the original scope, although we are willing to explore alternative mechanisms for delivering it.
- I believe there is room for a mutually acceptable compromise if we distinguish between what is essential and what is merely preferable.
- Were we to accept that provision in its current form, we would require additional safeguards to mitigate the associated risks.
- Grammar Focus: Advanced conditional clauses, inversion in hypothetical constructions, modal expressions of willingness and obligation, concessive clauses, and complex condition-result relationships.
- Vocabulary Focus: compromise, provision, safeguard, allocation, mitigate
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