{"id":129,"date":"2008-05-05T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T04:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-12-31T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:18:11","slug":"bep-94-adv-study-notes-resolving-conflict-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2008\/05\/05\/bep-94-adv-study-notes-resolving-conflict-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 94 ADV (Study Notes &#038; Exercises) &#8211; Resolving Conflict 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this two-part series on resolving conflict, we&#8217;ll be studying useful language for discussing and resolving disagreements.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe will be focusing not on major conflicts between companies or inside organizations, but rather on the everyday sort of disagreements that all of us have to deal with to be successful in our work.<br \/>\n  <script>function showhide(id){ \tif (document.getElementById){ \t\tobj = document.getElementById(id); \t\tif (obj.style.display == \"none\"){ \t\t\tobj.style.display = \"\"; \t\t} else { \t\t\tobj.style.display = \"none\"; \t\t} \t} } <\/script><br \/>\n  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/listening-quiz\/\">Listening Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('316'); return(false);\"><strong>1) <\/strong> Gerry says he wants to &#8220;sit down informally and thrash things out a little.&#8221; What do you think this means?   <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"316\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong> &#8220;To thrash things out&#8221; is an idiom that means to discuss things. 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