Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing 6 - Plans and schedules for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

All the pictures below are from the same meeting. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.

Answer

  1. It’s the start of the meeting, the man on the right is greeting people, he might be the manager / director.
  2. A woman is giving a presentation to the group. She may well be describing trends in sales of a product. She might be from the sales department.
  3. A brainstorming session, maybe as a follow-up to the presentation. The people have split up into groups. They might be discussing strategy in light of the presentation, what we really need to do next is ...
  4. Lunch or dinner after a hard morning’s / day’s work. They may well now be making small talk, catching up with news, or continuing with the brainstorming they started earlier.