• 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.

Man: As far as I see it, there are two small trouble spots in this agreement. One is the wording of our company’s involvement in Paragraph Four on Page Twelve. We don’t want to be held fully responsible. The other trouble spot is the wording of the last paragraph on Page Fourteen. I would take out this phrase here and replace it with "prior to the date of delivery".