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DREAMERS & DOERS. New Password 4-Chapter 1. PRE-READING. PRE-READING. Which would you prefer? Who would like to …?. Let’s do a class questionnaire about working. PRE-READING. What does “entrepreneur” mean? What kind of people can become entrepreneurs?
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DREAMERS & DOERS New Password 4-Chapter 1
PRE-READING Which would you prefer? Who would like to …? Let’s do a class questionnaire about working.
PRE-READING What does “entrepreneur” mean? What kind of people can become entrepreneurs? Can you name some famous entrepreneurs? a person who has a good idea and use it to start a business
PRE-READING Match the words with the definitions: CEO Page views Made his first million e-Bay Wage Real estate Let’s look at the vocabulary next to the reading. an amount of money a worker earns Earned his first 1.000.000 Visits to a website The business of selling houses other buildings, or land A website for buying and selling things online The person at the head of a company, Chief Executive Officer
FAST READING Open your books page 3.
FAST READING • Do not use dictionary. • Do not ask your teacher about the vocabulary. • Do not follow with a pen or your finger. It slows you down. • After fast reading, you just need to find the topic & main idea. You don’t have to understand every word or sentence. • You have 4 minutes.
FAST READING Topic: What is the reading about? Main idea: What does the reading say about the topic? What is the difference between topic & main idea? Main idea is a sentence, topic is not. Topic & Main idea
FAST READING What is the topic? Dreams about the future People who start up businesses Ways you can make a lot of money Topic & Main idea
FAST READING What is the main idea? It is important for a young person to have a dream about the future. Some very young people have become successful entrepreneurs. It is easier to start your own business when you are very young. Topic & Main idea
FAST READING Why didn’t you use dictionary during the first reading? Because you need to learn guessing meaning from context. You will always have words that you don’t know in your tests, so it is very important to learn guessing. Guessing Meaning from Context
FAST READING What does context mean? The words and sentences before and after the word. Context helps you guess the meaning. For example, look at the context of make a living: “Constanza met some people who were highly skilled at making clothes but could not make a living at it. Instead, they supported themselves washing dishes or cleaning rooms. “ The context of make a living: to make enough money from your work to support yourself. Guessing Meaning from Context
VOCABULARY Work in pairs. Fill in the bingo grid with 9 of the target words . If you have the word on the screen on your card, cross that square. The first pair that crosses all the words on the card wins!
Client: noun • a person like a customer, who pays for the services of a professional • We have to wait in line for our dentist because she has a lot of clients.
make a living: verb • to make enough money to support yourself • It is hard to make a living if you don’t have university education.
Hire: verb • to give someone a job • We are moving tomorrow, so I hired three men to carry the heavy boxes.
come up with: verb • to be the first to think of • Miranda has come up with a terrific idea.
risk: noun • a chance that something bad may happen • The fireman took a great risk to save the young woman’s life.
Drive: verb • cause something • You are driving me crazy.
Earn: verb • to get money by working • When you have a good job you can earn a lot of money.
design: verb • to produce an idea and draw the plans for it • An architecture’s job is to design buildings.
Turn into: verb • to take something and change it into something else • Caterpillars turn into butterflies.
Set up: verb • to start, prepare, or build something • Mark Zuckerberg set up Facebook in 2004.
ad: noun • pictures, words, short movies that we see on TVs and newspapers to sell a product • Yesterday, I was watching a film on TV, and in 2 hours there were 10 breaks for ads. I hate ads!
Mean: verb • to plan to do something, have something in mind as a purpose • I didn’t mean to make you angry.
Fair: adjective • acceptable, right for everybody • Our company pays a fair amount of money to the workers. That’s why everyone likes working here.
Willing: adjective • ready or prepared to do something • My students are quite willing to learn English.
CAREFUL READING Let’s read the text again.
CAREFUL READING • Read the text carefully. • You can ask your teacher if you don’t understand words and sentences. • After careful reading, you need to answer questions about details.
READING RACE Work in groups of 3 or 4. You will answer reading questions about the text. You need to answer by showing your board after 15 seconds. The group with the most correct answers wins!
READING RACE Pierre Omidyar set up his business and then sold it. Ontenada hired her mother to work for her. Cameron made a lot of money as a young entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs of any age must be willing to take risks. Daniel Negari has a computer service agency. Ashley Qualls set up her website to make money. The people who work for Constanza get a fair paycheck. Reading for Details: Are these sentences True, False, or Doesn’t say? Doesn’t say Doesn’t say True True False False True
READING RACE What is the main idea of paragraph 3? Young entrepreneurs have various reasons for what they do. Most young entrepreneurs start their businesses by accident. Young entrepreneurs dream of becoming a CEO. Topic & Main idea
READING RACE What is the main idea of paragraph 6? Write a sentence. Young entrepreneurs may have to decide whether or not to hire their parents. Topic & Main idea
POST-READING Talk about the speaking questions in pairs.
POST-READING When do people drive you crazy? Why should people hire you? What are your good qualities? In the future, what do you want to set up? How will you earn money when you graduate? Partner A: asks & Partner B: answers
POST-READING What are you always willing to eat? Talk about one ad you liked or hated. In the future, how do you plan to make a living? What does “I didn’t mean to hurt you” mean? Partner B: asks & Partner A: answers
