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    unit

    1 Introductions

    a new business
    Before you read
    1 Answer these questions.
    a) What is the first thing you do when you go to work or college?
    b) What do you do at lunchtime?

    2 Match the words (1–4) to the correct definitions (a–d).


    1 online a) someone who works for the same company
    2 full-time b) on the Internet
    3 web designer c) working eight hours a day, five days a week
    4 colleague d) someone who designs websites as a job

    Reading
    Read this article adapted from the Financial Times and answer the questions on the next page.

    level of difficulty
    TEXT BANK

    Business diary: Paul Trible, Paul Watson


    as told to Vanessa Friedman

    Paul Trible and Paul Watson are Richmond, Virginia. start the business, they asked 20
    founders of Ledbury, a company The company has two full- friends from their business school
    that makes luxury shirts. Their time employees. They don’t have 25 to invest money. The friends also
    company is in Richmond, USA. 15 official meetings. They talk to wear the shirts and introduce their
    5 The first thing they do every each other. At lunchtime, they go colleagues to the company. For
    day when they get to work is to the shop to talk to customers. example, an investor who works
    check customer e-mails. They do They spend 25 per cent of the in a large insurance company in
    about 95 per cent of their business day on the phone with their web 30 Houston wore their shirts, and
    online, selling about 4,500 shirts 20 designer. The website takes a lot in the past four months they got
    10 a month. They sell 5 per cent of time and money. about 12 more customers from
    of their shirts in the store in To raise money ($300,000) to there.

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    TEXT BANK •• unit 1

    1 Match the questions (1–6) to the correct answers (a–f ).


    1 What does the company make? a) check e-mails
    2 Where is the company? b) their colleagues
    3 What is the first thing Paul Trible and c) shirts
    Paul Watson do every day? d) Richmond, USA
    4 What do they do at lunchtime? e) talk to customers
    5 How do they talk to their web designer? f ) on the phone
    6 Who do friends introduce to the company?

    2 Complete these sentences about the article using is, isn’t, are
    or aren’t.
    a) Paul Trible and Paul Watson are the founders of the company.
    b) Ledbury based in the USA.
    c) There 20 employees, there are two employees.
    d) Most of their customers online.
    e) There a meeting every day.

    Over to you
    Talk about a company that you know. Say:
    • what it is called
    • where it is based
    • what it sells or makes

    TEXT BANK
    • who the founder or chief executive is
    • how many employees there are.

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