• You will hear five short recordings. • For each recording, decide what stage of agreement each speaker is talking about.

Man: Well, you see I’ve looked through the contract several times and I think all the important items have been covered. I don’t think my people will have any problem with it. For the time being, it seems that what we need to do is to set up a date to have it signed and then we can go about putting it into effect. As far as I am concerned, we can sign the contract in a couple of days. It shouldn’t take more than three days max.

Woman: Let’s go over the details of the contract. Construction will begin on the 5th of February, and we should be finished by the following January. The budget is set at 2.5 million dollars which does not include staff training and recruitment costs. We have $250,000 budget set aside for that.