How to Negotiate a Higher Salary
A B2 practice pack following a video lesson on salary negotiation, with separate tasks for deflecting early salary questions, building a salary range, planning fallback asks and a pay-review role-play. Suits professionals who need to negotiate job offers or raises.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Gap-fill
- Video rewatch
- Sentence response writing
- Data analysis and calculation
- Sorting task
- Planning task
- Role-play
- Interview homework
By the end, learners can
- Deflect early salary questions politely and ask for the employer's range
- Calculate a salary range from market data and justify the target
- Plan fallback requests (base, equity and bonuses, perks) for when the first ask is refused
- Present evidence-based arguments for a pay rise in a review conversation
- Say percentages and large figures accurately
Skills: Speaking · Listening · Vocabulary · Writing
Suits: Job seekers · Employees preparing for pay reviews
Language practised: Deflecting a question politely · Asking for information · Stating a salary range · Justifying a request with evidence · Falling back to an alternative proposal · Quoting statistics and figures
Pairs with
Lesson 4: How to Negotiate a Higher Salary →
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