Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5B - Not for profit? for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

Listen again. Why does Alessandro mention the following?

Answer

  1. Their first product was gnocchi, which they sold to his friends.
  2. There's a Pasta Evangelist concession in Harrods.
  3. Sfoglini is the Italian word for the chefs who make the pasta. It means 'pasta artisans'.
  4. Sicily and Piemonte are two places where they get ingredients from - pistachios from Sicily and hazelnuts from Piemonte.
  5. £2,000 was the amount that Alessandro first invested in the business.
  6. Two million individuals saw Pasta Evangelists on the TV programme Dragons' Den.
  7. These are two of the types of business that compete with Pasta Evangelists for people's money.
  8. This is the price of one of their more luxurious dishes.
  9. Most of their deliveries outside London go to people living in small villages.
  10. They think they've only just started to reach the vast potential market for their products.