• You will hear five speakers talking about business trips. • For each recording, choose the reason the speaker gives for the tr

The journey should turn out to be worth it. They’re obviously keen to do business with someone, and I just hope it’ll be us. They seemed to like the samples I showed them, and said they thought our terms were fair. Of course actual details would get discussed later, but I’m hopeful they’ll come on board, and it’s a part of the world where we need customers. We’ll have to see.

It was a long way to go, but of course it’s necessary. We’ve had so many problems with components manufactured at that site. But as they were saying it’s because the machinery was in need of replacement, then we had no choice but to go and check it out. It’s true it’s showing its age, but I think it’s a question of repairs, not replacing it all, It’ll take a few weeks, but then we should be back’ to normal.