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  • Welcome back to business English Pod! Today's Show

  • is part of a two-part series on making,

  • rejecting and accepting suggestions.

  • Reject means to say no and accept means to say yes

  • In this English lesson, we're focusing on making suggestions

  • in the next lesson, we'll look at accepting

  • and rejecting suggestions. This dialogue takes place and a sports shoe company

  • called Stratos. You'll be listening to Karen,

  • a marketing manager, meet with three members of her team

  • Charles, Sven, and Miguel. They are choosing a celebrity spokesperson

  • for new product. Celebrity means

  • a famous person. Here, spokesperson

  • is someone who gets paid to be in an advertisement for product

  • In the dialogue, target market is the place where you want to sell your

  • product and target consumer

  • is the type of customer you want to sell your product to.

  • In this case the product is a special kind of new sports shoe

  • made especially for overweight people.

  • Overweight is a nice way of saying too heavy or not fit.

  • okay let's listen as you listen

  • pay attention to the language the speakers used to make suggestions to

  • each other

  • okay now let's talk about who we want to use as a spokesperson for this product

  • let's go around the table show uses sports to

  • or someone else spend what do you think

  • well look possibility would be to use a famous

  • overweight business executives all CEO someone who is really successful

  • sorry can I come in here yes go ahead Miguel

  • that's a good idea but I'm not sure it would work

  • why not well for one thing our customers want to be fit

  • not back well then what do you suggest

  • perhaps we should just use a famous sports star

  • like we usually do if it isn't broken don't fix it

  • you know what I mean we could try getting Rooney

  • weren't at all good suggestion but I can see one or two problems with that

  • to be honest Boeing first of a target market

  • are in the UK and the US we need

  • someone people with Americans and Britain's really like

  • secondly a target customer is kind of special

  • I've got a suggestion go ahead child it's just an idea

  • but how about choosing someone from a sport wheres normal

  • to be happy american football for example

  • heavy but agile overweight

  • but strong and fast you know what I mean Rai

  • I can see what you doing what do others think

  • yes that might be worth trying okay

  • the what about the UK who we get to use on this side of the Atlantic

  • mmm let me think about the youth show we try to find someone in Golf

  • that's popular in the US and in the UK and that way we can kill two birds with

  • one stone I'm

  • that's an idea that idea you know I think this work to run

  • karen's team had a lot of ideas didn't what language do they use to make their

  • suggestions

  • first listen to us then well

  • look possibility would be to use a famous overweight business executives

  • all CEO

  • someone who is really successful houseman

  • make a suggestion he says one possibility

  • would be to instead will he uses

  • would the use of wood here means it's just a suggestion

  • past moreover should

  • could might and would are often use like this

  • in suggestions now listen to Miguel

  • making a suggestion perhaps we should just use a famous sports star

  • like we usually do if it isn't broken don't fix it

  • you know what I mean perhaps we should

  • is another polite way making a suggestion notice the you served just

  • perhaps we should just use a famous pornstar

  • this shows that what he's suggesting is no change

  • from the normal way of doing things that's why he says

  • if it isn't broken don't fix it this is an idiom

  • it means don't change something if it's already working fine

  • in informal American world English you can say

  • if it ain't broke don't fix it so far

  • we have two ways of making suggestions one possibility would be to

  • and perhaps we should

  • now

  • let's look at a couple more ways to make suggestions listener charles

  • I've got a suggestion go ahead child it's just an idea

  • but how about choosing someone from a sport worse normal

  • to be happy first Charles shows

  • that he has a suggestion I've got a suggestion

  • then since he's talking to his boss

  • and perhaps since he's not sure everyone will agree with him

  • he uses a careful polite way to introduce the suggestion

  • is just an idea by how Barack how bout

  • is a normal way of making a suggestion is just an idea but

  • makes it extra polite instead a Powerball

  • you can also say what about how bout

  • and what about are followed by a ver plus being

  • I N G

  • how about washing the dishes

  • it's just an idea but what about eating lunch together

  • these are sometimes followed by a phrase or sentence

  • this is more common with how about

  • how about you wash the dishes and I dry

  • how bout we have

  • lunch together

  • finally let's look at a couple more ways

  • making a suggestion listen to how Karen

  • makes her suggestion show we try to find someone in Gulf

  • you can also say wanna for example

  • what if we cut costs by finding a new office

  • now with Karen steam

  • practice the ways and making suggestions that we've learned so far

  • well one possibility would be to

  • I am will star

  • perhaps

  • should have more vacation

  • just an idea

  • n but how about leaving a little bit early today

  • shall we try to look at this from another point of view

  • well what if we try to

  • open a new store in Germany

  • now it's your turn to talk in a moment

  • you'll hear a series of Q's followed by a bee

  • after each be use the information supplied

  • in the queue to make a suggestion for example

  • if you hear get back on to sponsor the product

  • you can say well one possibility

  • would be to get back come to sponsor the product are you ready

  • let's give it a try

  • launched a new product in q1 next year

  • they've been a grant in Slovenia

  • give employees larger bonuses

  • hold English training

  • scheduled weekly meetings to check on progress

  • how did you do listen to the examples to check your answers

  • remember there are many possible ways to respond to each question

  • launch the new product in q1 next year

  • and soon perhaps you should launch the new product in q1 next year

  • they've been a branch in Slovenia

  • answer it's just an idea but what if we open a branch in Slovenia

  • give employees larger bonuses

  • sir well what if we try to give employees legend bonuses

  • hold English training

  • answer well one possibility

  • would be to hold English training

  • scheduled weekly meetings to check on progress

  • answer let's schedule weekly meetings to check on progress

  • now that you've heard some examples go back in practice again

  • substitute different phrases to build fluency

  • that's all for this unit we've covered many useful expressions for making

  • suggestions

  • in the next unit will use the same dialogue

  • to cover rejecting and accepting suggestions will also look closely

  • at some idioms that were used in the dialogue thanks for listening

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