Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 14 - Business matters for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Try to remember the exact phrases or sentences the following were used in. Then listen again and check your ideas.

Answer

  1. I was just panicking over nothing
  2. Sales have actually picked up a bit this quarter
  3. we’ve actually taken on a couple of new people
  4. she’s crawling around everywhere (and babbling away to herself all the time)
  5. (He’s been away a lot with work recently), which has been a bit of a pain, (but hopefully that’ll ease off a bit soon).
  6. I saw the draw for the European Championships
  7. Don’t count your chickens yet!
  8. just think of all the savings you’ll make on your overheads
  9. And on wages if half the staff who’re threatening to leave actually do!
  10. Is Thursday any use to you?