4.

Negotiation1

L3 . . . “All enclosures should be filled” (reading from task sheet).

L2 “Enclosures should be filled”. Enclosure, do you know?
L1 What means enclosure? Do you know?
L3 Close ah,—“should be filled”.
L2 No I don’t know enclos- enclosed.
L1 Filled what means fill ? Oh oh all enclosed, I think that all enclosed that means
enclosed.
L2 Fill.
L3 Filled, filled.
L2 Ohh.
L1 Every every area yes should be filled.
L2 Should be filled.
L3 Should be put put something inside.
L1 Yes because yes yes because you know two? the-
L2 I see. No empty rooms ahh.
L3 No empty rooms yeah.
L2 Two is the empty I see.
L1 Yeah empty so we must fill it, okay?

Using written input to negotiate: Agony aunt

Dear Belle,
My boss keeps inviting me to participate in various sporting activities with him,
such as playing golf and squash. I am quite good at the sports and enjoy them.
However, it is affecting my relationship with my wife. The time that we would
usually spend together is now devoted to keeping my boss happy. I don’t know what
decision to make. Should I refuse my boss and risk my promotion, or should I
continue with golf and squash and risk my marriage?

Confused sportsman

Information gap
1
Dr Tony Harris: MAES; AyE; SpeakingActivities
1
Ranking

2
You are alone and lost in the jungle; put the following things in order of importance
for your survival.

a sleeping bag
a radio (for listening only)
an axe
a gun and ten bullets
matches
a tent
a torch
a map of the area
a cooking pot
three cans of food
three metres of rope
a story book

Problem solving

A teacher sees a student cheating in an examination. He is the student who produces

the student newspaper. He is a good student, but because of his outside work his
marks have not been very high. If he gets to law school he will probably become a
very great lawyer. What should the teacher do?

1 Pretend not to see the cheating.

2 Quietly ask him to stop cheating.
3 Tell the class that someone has been cheating and if it happensagain that person
will be sent out.
4 Send the student out of the room and tell the class the reason.
5 Do the same as (4) but also tell the head of the school so that the student is forced
to leave the school.

Strip story

In the morning I get up at 7 o’clock. I have a shower and eat my breakfast. After
breakfast, I do the dishes. I leave home at 8 o’clock and catch the bus to class. In the
evening, my jobs are to help cook dinner and do the dishes. After dinner, I watch TV.
I go to bed at about 11 o’clock.

7. Spoken Corpora: CANCODE

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CANCODE (Carter 1998; McCarthy 1998)

<$1> You know, our Gregory he’s only fifteen but he wants to be a pilot.
<$2> Does he?
<$1> Now he couldn’t get in this year to go to Manchester, you know, on that
erm course that they do, experience course thing.
<$2> Work experience.
<$1> But he’s going for next we= next year.
<$2> Oh yeah.
<$1> Work+
<$3> Oh yeah.
<$1> +experience yeah. And this time he’s been to
erm Headingley, coaching, doing a bit of coaching with the young kids you
know.

VOICE (Seidlhofer 2001a; 2001b; Jenkins, Modiano & Seidlhofer 2001)

1R I think on the front should be a picture who only

2 makes p-people to er spend money, to the charity
5S I think a picture with child
6R Yeah, child are always good to
7S Yes
8R to trap people spend money
9S Yes, I think erm, let me see, erm…
10 R I don’t know but maybe we should choose a picture who gives the
11 impression that this child needs the money or
14 S Maybe this one
15 R Yeah.
16 S He look very sad