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Answer — Exercise 7

3.2 - Fired!·Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

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)

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