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

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Review 8 for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Decide if these words are connected to cooking or business - and in what way.

Answer

  • commissionbusiness: if you sell things like houses or whatever, you get commission on each sale
  • crushcooking: crush garlic or nuts before cooking
  • floatbusiness: float a company on the stock exchange
  • hygienecooking: you need to maintain proper standards of hygiene if you’re running a restaurant
  • a mix-upbusiness: e.g. payments get sent to the wrong place
  • nichebusiness: you find and exploit a niche market
  • plungebusiness: prices can suddenly plunge
  • sprinklecooking: sprinkle cheese over pasta or chopped herbs over a dish
  • squeezecooking: squeeze juice out of a lemon
  • subtlecooking: subtle flavours

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