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1 Vocabulary

Match the words and phrases to the definitions:

1. an entrepreneur a. leaving a job

2. an inventor b. money that you get for a special reason, e.g. to invest in a
business
3. a co-founder c. somebody who creates a new idea, thing or product

4. funding d. somebody who establishes a company with another person

5. resignation e. somebody who starts a business or businesses

Can you think of any successful entrepreneurs or inventors?

2 Collocations

Match the verbs on the left with the nouns on the right. Then complete the sentences below.

1. take a. a break

2. attend b. a company

3. invent c. a meeting

4. receive d. a new product

5. found e. a salary

6. earn f. funding (to start a business)

1. I’m a little tired now. I want to take a break .

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2. Mr Small earn a salary of $50,000 per year.

3. Team work is very important. We have to attend a meeting every day.
receive attend a meeting
4. We are looking for investors. We need to a lot of to start this
business.
invent a new product
5. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you don’t need to . You
can offer a useful service.
found company
6. Mark is not happy as an employee. He wants to his own .

3 Business profile

Look at the picture. Who was this person? What do you know about him? Read the text.

Steve Jobs was a famous American entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder and chairman
of Apple Inc.
He was born in San Francisco, California in 1955. He lived with his adoptive parents Paul and Clara
Jobs. Paul worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, and Steve learned how to work with his hands. Paul
showed Steve how to build electronics such as radios and televisions.
Steve Jobs’ career started in 1972. He worked as a technician for Atari. After taking a break to travel
to India, Jobs returned to Atari in 1974. In 1975, he attended meetings of the Homebrew Computer
Club with Steve Wozniak. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak started their own business, which they named
"Apple Computer Company", remembering a happy summer when Jobs picked apples.
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. They received funding from an Intel engineer and
started to sell the computers. However, because of disappointing sales and Jobs’s difficult relationship
with the company, he stopped coming to work and resigned as chairman in 1985. Jobs founded NeXT
Inc. after his resignation with $7 million. In 1996, Apple decided to buy NeXT for $427 million and
Jobs returned to the company that he co-founded.
With Jobs as chairman, the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac,
the iPod portable music player and other new products. On June 29, 2007, Apple entered the cellular
phone business with the introduction of the iPhone.
Jobs earned a salary of only $1 per year as CEO but he was worth $8.3 billion in 2010 according to
Forbes. In August 2011, he resigned as CEO of Apple and he died of cancer in October 2011.

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4 Past simple - regular verbs

The words in bold in the text are the past forms of regular verbs. Answer the questions:
1. How do we form the past of a regular verb like work, start and return?
2. How do we form the past of a regular verb like live, increase and name?
3. Find more examples of rule 1 and 2 in the text.
There are three ways to pronounce the -ed ending of regular verbs. Listen to your teacher and
repeat.

/d/ /t/ /id/

lived worked started

learned picked attended
showed increased invented

Now listen and read the words below. Which category do they belong to?

wanted offered liked hated repeated stopped corrected

loved fixed played asked
5 Anita Roddick
Complete the facts about the British businesswoman Anita Roddick (1942-2007), founder of The
Body Shop. Use the verbs below in the past.

die found marry

offer open
promote purchase divorce
train travel

1. Her parents divorced when she was nine.

2. In her younger years, she trained as a teacher.
3. She married Gordon Roddick in 1970.
4. They opened a restaurant and a hotel in their home town.
5. Her first Body Shop offered only 15 product lines.
6. During her career, she promoted fair trade with third world countries.
7. In 1990, she founded a charity called ‘Children on the Edge’.
purchased
8. In 2006, L’Oréal The Body Shop for £652 million.
9. In 2007, Roddick died because of a serious illness.
10. During her life, she travelled to many different countries.

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6 Past simple - Negative and question forms

In pairs read the dialogue about Steve Jobs’s early career and answer the questions below:

A: Did Steve Jobs live with his real parents as a child?

B: No, he didn’t live with his real parents. He lived with his adoptive parents.
A: Did his career start in 1972?
B: Yes, it did.
A: When did he start his own business?
B: He started his own business with Steve Wozniak in 1976.
A: Did they receive funding from their parents?
B: No, they didn’t. They received funding from an Intel engineer.
A: When did he found the company NeXT?
B: He founded NeXT in 1985.

1. How do we form questions with the past simple?

2. What is the negative past form?
3. How do we form short answers with the past form?

7 Past simple (regular verbs)

Study the past forms of the verb ‘work’.

affirmative forms negative forms questions

I worked I didn’t work Did I work?

You worked You didn’t work Did you work?
He/she/it worked He/she/it didn’t work Did he/she/it work?
We worked We didn’t work Did we work?
You worked You didn’t work Did you work?
They worked They didn’t work Did they work?

Short answers
Yes, I did. / Yes, you did. / Yes, he did ...
No, I didn’t. / No, you didn’t. / No, he didn’t ...

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8 Practice

Form questions like in the example.

Anita Roddick’s parents / divorce / when she was nine? Did Anita Roddick’s parents divorce when she was n

1. Anita Roddick / train / as a nurse?

Did Anita Roddick train as a nurse?
.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. she / marry / Gordon Roddick in 1970?
.Did
. . . .she
. . . . marry
. . . . . . . Gordon
. . . . . . . . .Roddick
. . . . . . . . . in
. . .1970?
...........................................................
3. they / open / a sauna?
.Did
. . . . .they
. . . . .opened
. . . . . . . . .sandra?
............................................................................
4. the first Body Shop / offer / a wide range of products?
..Did
. . . . .The
. . . . first
. . . . .Body
. . . . . .Shop
. . . . . . offer
. . . . . .a. .wide
. . . . . range
. . . . . . . of
. . .products?
..............................................
5. Anit Roddick / found / a charity / in 1990?
. . . Did
. . . . .Anita
. . . . . .Roddick
. . . . . . . . . found
. . . . . . .a. .charity
. . . . . . . .in. .1990?
......................................................
6. L’Oréal / purchase / the Body Shop / for $10 million?
. . . Did
. . . . .Lóreal
. . . . . . .purchase
. . . . . . . . . . .the
. . . .Body
. . . . . .Shop
. . . . . .fos
. . . .$10
. . . . million?
..............................................
7. Anita Roddick / die / in 2007?
. . . Did
. . . . .Anita
. . . . . .Roddick
. . . . . . . . .die
. . . .in
. . 2007?
...................................................................

In pairs, ask and answer the questions like in the dialogue.

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