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Business English for Beginners · Chapter 5: At the restaurant

The beginning of a great partnership

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The sentence for the moment after the handshake: I’m convinced this is the beginning of an excellent work relationship.

In the middle of the room stands a bucket where everybody throws their negative thoughts. It is concentrated full of them, and you, the winners, are standing around it (I’m convinced). You are talking animatedly; one of you is a bread roll who begins his speech, nervously turning his ring (this is the beginning).

In his speech he says he often disagreed, but that this is now an excellent contract (of an excellent). On the flipchart he writes down all the advantages, but in tiny little words (work). Behind the flipchart stands an enormous ladder with a picture of a beautiful ship whose captain is a policeman (relationship).