Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Fired! for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the descriptions of businesses. Work in pairs and discuss. What is the missing name of the company, organisation or place? Would you be interested in working there? Why / Why not?
  2. Underline four farming / gardening / environmental metaphors in each description above.

Answer

a)

  1. Silicon Valley
  2. Nestle
  3. UNICEF

b)

  1. sprouted, flourished, branched out, ecosystem
  2. ploughing back, bore fruit, thorny issues, blossomed
  3. branch, root, grass-roots, reaped (rewards)