Business C1 · Unit 4 · High-stakes negotiation
4B. Provided that both sides move
C1 · Advanced Business English · advanced conditionals (unless / provided that / were it not for / should)
Unit 4 · Epigraph
"A negotiator whose English has plateaued at 'if' is, in the last mile of a large deal, functionally unable to send the signals that keep the room open."
Objectives
What you'll be able to do
- Deploy the full C1 conditional palette (provided that / unless / on condition that / were it not for / should / assuming that / in the event that) in the same paragraph.
- Signal willingness, resistance and the single-obstacle-to-signature in one spoken breath.
- Attach a 'provided that' to a behaviour rather than an outcome.
- Diagnose a 'last-mile linguistic impasse' in your own negotiations and unstick it.
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