
Answer — Exercise 7
3.2 - Fired!·Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book
Question
- 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?
- Underline four farming / gardening / environmental metaphors in each description above.
Answer
a)
- Silicon Valley
- Nestle
- UNICEF
b)
- sprouted, flourished, branched out, ecosystem
- ploughing back, bore fruit, thorny issues, blossomed
- branch, root, grass-roots, reaped (rewards)