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Week 1 – Small talk and taking the floor Small talk

Banalité, bavardages

Every day topics

How are you ?

To know feelings, news

What is she like ?

Appearances, description

Shallow, chit-chat

Superficial, discussion peu importante

Strike

La grève

Get stuck

Se retrouver coincer

Trouble finding

Avoir du mal à trouver

Awful

Horrible

Freshen up

Se rafraîchir

Catch up

Rattraper (du travail)

Go in

Entrer, laisser faire

Slouch

Fainéant

Mumble

Marmoner

Fold arms

Bras croisés

Whisper

Murmurer

Rush

Se précipiter, (parler) vite

Articulate

Prononcer clairement

Find out

Découvrir, apprendre

improve

Améliorer

Tighter ( tight)

+ stricte

Internship

Stage

Abortion

Avortement

Informal conversation about matters that are not important

Hard, trouble + verb-ing

Let someone in

C. When asking for something to be repeated use: ! - “I didn’t understand that last point. Would you mind repeating it?” ! - “I’m still not clear. Could you repeat that?”! - “Sorry, I didn’t catch that clearly. Did you say______________?” ! - “You’ve lost me. Do you mean that _____________?” !

Week 2 – Expressing conditions and possible resulting scenarios Stunned

Etourdi - choqué -sonné

Unscathed

Indemne

Thoroughly

Minutieusement

Tax return

Déclaration d’impôt

Avoid

Eviter

Noxious

Nocif/toxique

Agreed deadline

Délai convenu

Ordered goods

Biens commandés

Provided (that)

A condition que

As long as

Pour autant que

As soon as

Dès que

Unless

A moins que

Should

Si vous veniez/deviez

Perform

Interpréter (une chanson)

Opposite to “interpret” means understand the sound

An oddball, an eccentric

Excentrique

A strange person

To be commensurate with sth

Pour être à la hauteur de qc

To fit in with sth Colloquial expression for a singlefamily operated business with few (or no) employees, other than the owners To make sb go away

A mom-and-pop shop To alienate sb

A place where prisoners or people with mental health problems stay after they leave prison or hospital and before they start to live on their own Intolerance; an intolerant person. To have difficulties speaking – saying the first sound of a word To criticise sb unfairly

A halfway home

Maison de transition

Bigotry

Intolérant

To stutter

Bégayer

To pick on sb

S’en prendre à qqn

The disenfranchised

People not having any rights, esPriver quelqu’un d’un droit pecially the right to vote, and not (de vote) feeling part of society

Contingency (fee)

Honoraires conditionnels

Cultivate

Développer, entretenir

An amount of money that a lawyer in the US will be paid only if the person they are ad- vising wins in court

!

Week 3 – Asking questions Flu

La grippe

Crisps

Les chips

Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Ministre des finances Adrift

A la dérive

Shipwreck

Naufrage

Reported questions

Discours indirect

Wonder

Se demander

Lifeboat

Canot de sauvetage

Types of questions: ! Yes/No questions - Yes/No questions begin with an auxiliary verb or a form of do followed by the subject. ! e.g. : Is this course interesting? Have you read the text? ! # Can you remember what an easement is?! Do you have a copy of the contract? ! rem. pour une «$legal issue!», toujours utiliser une «$reported question!»!

Week 4 – Producing coherent speech through the use of linking word Through

A travers

Throughout

Tout au long de

Overseas

A l’étranger, outre-mer

Factory

Usine

Foreign, abroad The action /! A plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose Think about and begin to deal with an issue or problem

Measure

La mesure

Adress

Répondre, s’occuper de

Snapping up

S’arracher

Soar

Monter en flèche

Up in arms

Scandalisé

Inflate

Gonfler

Priced out of the market

Unable to buy something Prix hors du marché, exclu du marché because the prices have become too high

Cheap

Bon marché

Afford

S’offrir

Housing ladder

Marché de l’immobilier

Determination

Résolution, décision

Very quick move to get sth Increase rapidly, to go through the roof Very angry, to be quite cross >< be pissed off (be drunk) High

To pay for The process of being able to buy your first house and then perhaps sell it and buy a more expensive one The resolution people who invest in stocks, property, or other projects in the hope of getting more money offer to pay a higher price for something than another person

Speculators

Spéculateur

Outbid / a bid

Surenchérir

Apply

Appliquer

To be relevant

Position

Opinion

Synonyme of Stance (posture)

Build

Construire

Residential

Résidentiel

make something needed or wanted available to people

To supply

Fournir

Property

Bien immobilier

Nevertheless

Néanmoins, toutefois

Nontheless

Néanmoins

That being said

Cela étant dit

Besides

De plus

So

Donc

However

Cependant

Furthermore

De plus, en outre

Eager

Avide

Housing crisis

Crise de l’immobilier

Currently

Actuellement

Actually

Effectivement

Preclude

Empêcher

To stop, to prevent

Then

Ensuite

Adverb to express the result of an action

Very cheap

Bon marché

Conjunction, that join two clauses, to express consequence Adverb with contrat with what we just say Adverb to add a new idea

Week 5 – Briefing a case and explaining what the law says Notary public

Notaire

To enter an appearrance

Comparaître

Vicarious liability

Responsabilité du fait d’autrui

Broaden

Large

Narrox

Etroit

Week 6 – Debating constructively (agreeing, disagreeing, conceding, acknowleding) Insights

Connaissance

Strive

Faire son possible

Confrontational

Agressif

Annoyed

Énervé

Temper

Humeur

Knee-jerk

Réaction instinctive

Understanding

Too direct, too honest

Blunt Rude

Impoli

Voicing

Exprimer

Success fee

Honoraires de résultat

Take out

Contracter

Recoverable

Récupéré

Underpinned

Etayer

Ease

Atténuer

The use

L’objectif/utilité

Assessment

Estimation

Wherever

Partout où

Point out

Indiquer

Concerns

Inquiétudes

Mis-selling

Vente abusive

Widely

Largement

Premises

Batiment/propriété

Widespread

Etendue

Salesmen

Représentants/vendeurs

Owed

Dû (devoir)

Incentives

Avantage /motivation

Cherry-picking

Sélectionner

Nevertheless

Néanmoins

Joined-up

Cohérent

Drop

Chute

Widen

Élergir

Misleading

Trompeur, erroné

Adversely

Défavorable

Give up

Abandonner

Uplift

Week 7 - Negotiating Hammer out

Négocier

Silly

Stupide

Partaking

Participer

Give away

Donner

Have another suitor in the wings

To have another buyer

Devious

Surnois

To decide on an agreement after a lot of discussion

To have the opposite effect to the one you intended

Give in Compartmentalize

Cloisonner / diviser

Shifts

Déplacer

Elsewhere

Ailleurs

Fairness

Équité

Pace

Rythme

Reins

Rênes

Frames

Encadremment

Revenue

Recette

Rank

Classer

Backfire

Retour de flamme

Avoid

Éviter

Bogged down

Crouler sous

Wiggle

Remuer

Be worth

Valoir

Room to negotiate

Laisser la place pour négocier

Close down

Fermer

Upbeat

Opptimiste

Leverage

Avantage

Bargaining chips

Monnaie d’échange

Wages

Faire (la guerre)

Dragging out

Faire trainer

To move from one place or position to another

To decide the position of something on a list based on quality or importance To have the opposite effect to the one you intended

To be involved (in a war against someone or a fight against something) To make an event or situation last longer than is necessary

Resorts

Recourir

Threats

Menaces

Attrition

Usure

Underlying

Sous-jacent

Put up with endless haggling

Supporter le marchandage sans fin

To grin and bear

Prendre sur soi

Move on

Poursuivre (sa route)

Drag down

Démoraliser , entâcher

Outlined

Exposé

Putting forward

Mettre en avant

Counteroffer

Contre-offre

Beating around the bush

Tourner autour du pot

Looked through

Parcourir

Look for

Chercher

Leeway

Marge

Notice period

Période de préavis

Grievance procedure So-called

Dénommé

Sensitive

Délicat

Keen

Motivé/ appliqué

Collapse

Chute, éffondrement

Greedy

Cupide

Gathered

Réunir/ramasser (des infos)

to demande

Exiger

To accept an unpleasant situation without complaining, usually because you realize there is nothing you can do to make it better

Room of manoeuvre/ room wiggle Period of warning that the con- tract is going to end Procedure for making a complaint

happy to do sth...