Answer — Exercise 5
9 - Starting out·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Answer the questions below. Then compare your ideas with a partner. Discuss which lines helped you make your decisions.
Answer
- Ela (a friend ... put in a good word)
- Eduardo (worked solidly through ... it was non-stop!)
- Carla (people associate the army with war, but nowadays it’s more about peacekeeping)
- Jocelyn (We’d be collected ... and driven out to the fields)
- Ela (the novelty soon wore off. It soon got very repetitive.)
- Carla (we get training for things like logistics)
- Ela (as I know that some people ... made up their data, I’ve learned to be sceptical about statistics)
- Eduardo (It sounded ideal – chill out on the beach, get a suntan ... Big mistake!)
- Jocelyn (as a teenager, I provided cheap labour, but that didn’t bother me)
- Eduardo (my boss was a complete control freak)
- Carla (solving problems and communication ... women are often better than men in those roles)
- Jocelyn (cash-in-hand)