{"id":89,"date":"2007-01-13T21:52:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2007\/01\/13\/bep-29-int-transcript-meetings-disagreeing\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T04:26:33","slug":"bep-29-int-transcript-meetings-disagreeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2007\/01\/13\/bep-29-int-transcript-meetings-disagreeing\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 29 INT (Transcript) – Meetings: Disagreeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous episode ( BEP 28 <\/a><\/b>) of this 2 part business English podcast series, we looked at expressing agreement. We practiced four ways of agreeing: Using standard phrases, using synonyms, giving an example and making a general comment.<\/p>\n

In this Business English Podcast, we’re going to focus on disagreement. We’ll learn different ways to disagree, from polite to strong.<\/p>\n

As you’ll remember, the listening takes place in the R&D department of PharmaTek, a pharmaceutical company. Pharmaceutical means medicine (or drug). This meeting is between Gene, the head scientist, and Louis and Karina, two researchers. They are talking about the results of a new trial. Here, “trial” means “test”\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe test of a new medicine on animals or patients. The new medicine is called Zorax. Let’s listen.<\/p>\n

Transcript & Study Notes.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the previous episode ( BEP 28 ) of this 2 part business English podcast series, we looked at expressing agreement. We practiced four ways of agreeing: Using standard phrases, using synonyms, giving an example and making a general comment. In this Business English Podcast, we’re going to focus on disagreement. We’ll learn different ways […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,10,17],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}