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1 Warm up

Look at the pictures and answer the following questions.

1. What jobs do business people do?

2. Can you name a famous businessperson? What do they do?

picture A picture B

picture C picture D

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2 Focus on vocabulary: nouns

Part A: Match the words and phrases to the definitions.

1. entrepreneur a. money that you get for a special reason, e.g. to invest in a business

2. inventor b. somebody who establishes a company with another person

3. co-founder c. leaving a job

4. funding d. somebody who starts a business or businesses

5. resignation e. somebody who creates a new idea, thing or product

Part B: Now, complete the sentences using the words from Part A.

1. Susan and her brother started a restaurant together. They are s.

2. The new, small company needs more to make their new product.

3. David worked at the company for 15 years. He decided to give his

and try something new.

4. Sarah is good at starting businesses. She is an .

5. Thomas Edison made the light bulb. He was an .

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3 Collocations

Part A: Match the collocations to the pictures.

attend a meeting earn a salary found a company

invent a new product receive funding take a break

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Part B: Now, complete the gaps with the collocations from the previous part. Mind that you may need
to change the form of the word.

1. Mr Small of $50,000 per year.

2. We are looking for investors. We need to a lot of

to start this business.

3. Mark is not happy as an employee. He wants to his own

.

4. Teamwork is very important. We have to every day.

5. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you don’t need to .

You can offer a useful service.

6. I’m a little tired now. I want to .

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4 Business profile

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

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Part B: The words in bold in the text (page four) 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 the first and second rules in the text.

5 Pronunciation
Part A: 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

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

wanted offered liked hated repeated

stopped corrected loved fixed played

6 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. Listen to the recording and check your answers.
die divorce found marry offer open promote purchase train travel

1. Her parents divorced when she was nine.

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

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7 Language point: past simple

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

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

B: No, he didn’t live with his biological 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.

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?

Part B: 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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Part C: Form questions in the past simple. Then, in pairs, ask and answer the questions like in the
dialogue about Steve Jobs (page six).

1. Anita Roddick’s parents / divorce / when she was nine?

2. Anita Roddick / train / as a nurse?

3. she / marry / Gordon Roddick in 1970?

4. they / open / a sauna?

5. the first Body Shop / offer / a wide range of products?

6. Anita Roddick / found / a charity / in 1990?

7. L’Oréal / purchase / the Body Shop / for $10 million?

8. Anita Roddick / die / in 2007?

8 Extension task: game

Choose the word and describe it without using it.

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Transcripts

5. Pronunciation

Speaker: wanted

Speaker: offered

Speaker: liked

Speaker: hated

Speaker: repeated

Speaker: stopped

Speaker: corrected

Speaker: loved

Speaker: fixed

Speaker: played

6. Anita Roddick

Speaker: Her parents divorced when she was nine.

Speaker: In her younger years, she trained as a teacher.

Speaker: She married Gordon Roddick in 1970.

Speaker: They opened a restaurant and a hotel in their home town.

Speaker: Her first Body Shop offered only 15 product lines.

Speaker: During her career, she promoted fair trade with third-world countries.

Speaker: In 1990, she founded a charity called ‘Children on the Edge’.

Speaker: In 2006, L’Oréal purchased The Body Shop for £652 million.

Speaker: In 2007, Roddick died because of a serious illness.

Speaker: During her life, she travelled to many different countries.

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Key

1. Warm up

5 mins.
This is an opportunity for students to express what they already know about the subject and share their views.

2. Focus on vocabulary: nouns

Part A:
5 mins.
Go through the phrases and check your understanding. Have the students translate them if necessary. Ask them
in what context they may use the given words.

1. → d. 2. → e. 3. → b. 4. → a. 5. → c.
Part B:
5 mins.
Students complete the gaps with nouns from Part A. Check pronunciation and spelling. Assist if necessary.

1. co-founder 2. funding 3. resignation 4. entrepreneur 5. inventor

3. Collocations

Part A:
5 mins.
Students match the given collocations to the pictures that represent their meaning. Ask students to try doing
these tasks unaided at first but if necessary, offer your help.

1. take a break 2. attend a meeting 3. invent a new product

4. receive funding 5. found a company 6. earn a salary
Part B:
5 mins.
Now students complete the sentences with the collocations from the previous part. Remind them they may need
to change the form of the verb: third person in present simple (-s), plural form, etc. Check as a class.

1. earns a salary 2. receive ≀ funding 3. found ≀ company

4. attend meetings 5. invent a new product 6. take a break

4. Business profile

Part A:
5 mins.
Students discuss for a moment who the person shown in the picture is (Steve Jobs) and what he became famous
for (the founding of Apple), then read the article and compare their answers to the newly learned information. Be
prepared to answer questions about difficult vocabulary (e.g. ‘adoptive parents’) and check understanding.
Source for the image: Reuters

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Part B:
5 mins.
Draw attention to the regular past simple verbs in the text. Ask students to work out the simple rules for forming
the past simple of regular verbs.
Be prepared to point out that when a verb ends in a consonant + vowel + consonant, e.g. ‘stop’, we double the
final consonant when adding an ending such as -ed and -ing (‘stopped’). Also point out that when a verb ends in a
consonant + -y, e.g. ‘marry’, we change -y to -ied.

1. we add -ed
2. we add -d
3. first rule: learned, showed, attended, picked, invented, stopped, resigned, founded, entered, earned; second
rule: died

5. Pronunciation

Part A:
5 mins.
Read out the words and have the students repeat them. At this stage, students only need to know that it is easier
to pronounce -ed as /d/ after words like ‘live’, /t/ after words like ‘watch’, etc.
Part B:
5 mins.
Students listen to the recording and put next to each word or just say which words are pronounced with /d/, /t/
or /id/.
Answers:
/d/ - offered, loved, played;
/t/ - liked, stopped, fixed;
/Id/ - wanted, hated, repeated, corrected;

6. Anita Roddick

5 mins.
Go through the verbs, checking understanding. Students put the words into the correct gaps and change their
forms to the past.They can complete the sentences individually and check in pairs.

1. divorced 2. trained 3. married 4. opened 5. offered

6. promoted 7. founded 8. purchased 9. died 10. travelled

7. Language point: past simple

Part A:
5 mins.
Have the students read the dialogue in pairs and work out the rules for forming questions, negative sentences
and short answers in the past simple.

1. did + SUBJECT + verb

2. SUBJECT + didn’t + verb
3. Yes, SUBJECT + did. / No, SUBJECT + didn’t
Part B:

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5 mins.
Students look at the box with the past forms of the verb ’work’.
Part C:
5 mins.
Students form the question in the past simple. Check as a class. After they are finished they can role-play the
dialogue from Part A using the information from this part. Circulate and help as needed. Check the pronunciation
and grammar.

1. Did Anita Roddick’s parents divorce when she was nine?

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

8. Extension task: game

10 mins.
Put students into small groups or in pairs and ask them to pick the word and describe it to their teammates without
showing or saying which word they’ve chosen. Groupmates’ task is to guess what word the student is describing.

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