Cómo practicar esta pieza
1. Escucha sin leer
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2. Haz los ejercicios
Comprensión, verdadero o falso, ordenar, habla real y un dictado. Cada uno se verifica al final.
3. Lee y escucha otra vez
Al terminar todos los ejercicios se desbloquea el texto, con cada palabra resaltada mientras suena.
Comprensión
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Pregunta 1
What are the three people doing?
Pregunta 2
What is Samuel's first price for five hundred chairs?
Pregunta 3
How does Karin feel about the first price?
Pregunta 4 · Escucha y elige quién lo dijo.
“a warranty is only as good as the company behind it”
Pregunta 5
What does Samuel need before he can agree to the ten percent discount?
Pregunta 6
What is the longest payment time Samuel can offer?
Pregunta 7
What must happen for the chairs to be delivered by the end of April?
Pregunta 8
What happens if a chair arrives damaged?
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Sobre esta pieza
Tres personas negocian en una reunión de trabajo el precio, el pago y la entrega de un pedido grande. Practica seguir cifras, condiciones y desacuerdos corteses con distintos acentos.
Qué vas a practicar
- Comprensión: la idea principal y los detalles que se escuchan (números, precios, horas, nombres).
- Verdadero, falso o no se dice: atención precisa a lo que de verdad se dijo.
- Ordenar: seguir la secuencia de lo que pasó.
- Habla real: formas y expresiones que no suenan como se escriben.
- Dictado: escribir las palabras que faltan en una frase del audio.
Vocabulario de esta pieza
frank adjective
franco, directo
honest and direct, even when it is not easy to hear
budget noun
presupuesto
the money you plan to spend on something
bear in mind phrase
tener en cuenta
to remember and think about a fact
warranty noun
garantía
a promise that a company will fix or replace a product if it breaks
competitors noun
competidores, la competencia
companies that sell the same things as you
counts for something phrase
tiene su valor, cuenta
has some value and is important
stretch verb
estirar, ampliar
to make something longer or bigger than usual
outline noun
el esquema, las líneas generales
the main parts of a plan, without all the details
damaged adjective
dañado
broken or hurt, so it does not work or look well
Samuel: Thank you all for coming. As you know, our price for five hundred chairs is eighty-five thousand dollars, delivery included.
Karin: Thanks, Samuel. I'll be frank: that's considerably higher than we were expecting. Our budget for this order is closer to seventy-five thousand.
Samuel: I understand. But bear in mind that these chairs come with a ten-year warranty, which none of our competitors currently offer.
Derek: That's true, and it counts for something. Still, ten years is a long time, and a warranty is only as good as the company behind it.
Samuel: Fair enough. Let me put it this way: should you place the order today, we'd be willing to take five percent off.
Karin: Five percent gets us to just over eighty. It's a start, but we'd need more than that.
Samuel: What kind of arrangement did you have in mind?
Karin: If we were to raise the order to six hundred chairs, would you take ten percent off the whole order?
Samuel: Ten percent on six hundred chairs would bring it to just under ninety-two thousand. I'd have to speak to my director before I could agree to that.
Derek: And on payment terms, we normally pay within sixty days of receiving the goods, so thirty days would be tight for us.
Samuel: Our standard is thirty days. I could stretch it to forty-five, but no further than that.
Karin: Forty-five days is perfectly acceptable for us. What about the delivery date, though?
Samuel: The chairs would be delivered by the end of April, provided the order is confirmed by the fifteenth of March.
Karin: One more thing: who pays if some of the chairs arrive damaged during the delivery?
Samuel: We do. Any damaged chair would be replaced at no extra cost within two weeks.
Derek: That's reassuring. Please make sure that it's included in the written offer you send us.
Karin: We'll confirm as soon as we've heard back from your director.
Samuel: Then I think we've got the outline of a deal, and I'd like to put it in writing by the end of the week.