Lesson 2
Listening
3. Listen again and choose the correct options.
1. Magdy has been helping people reinvent themselves for three/five years.
2. If people are interested in working with Magdy, he contacts them/they contact him.
3. Magdy still spends/doesn’t spend any more time with the people he works with when their company is in business.
4. A small/large number of the people Magdy works with think their business ideas are better than they really are.
5. Magdy thinks that companies some great ideas don’t succeed/succeed because the entrepreneur can’t find enough money.
6. According to Magdy, people who have business experience are/aren’t always more successful as entrepreneurs than people who don’t have it.
4. Make notes on the answers to the question. According to Magdy, what factors increase the chances of a new company becoming successful?
The entrepreneur needs to have interesting and innovative ideas, they need to have passion, believe in what their company wants to achieve and work hard.
Language
5. Study the quantifiers in the box. Write them in the correct column.
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| Can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns |
Only used with uncountable nouns |
Only used with countable nouns |
| any, some | a little, little, much |
a few, few, none, each, every, many |
6. Complete the sentences from the interview with the correct quantifiers.
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1. I still spend a littel time talking to them every day.
2. People who don’t have much passion …
3. But I imagine that not every idea is going to work.
4. There are always going to be some people who think they have a new idea.
5. If there’s little chance that the idea will succeed, you have to tell them.
6. Few entrepreneurs succeed unless they’re prepared to work hard.
7. And a few of these ideas have the potential to become a successful business.
8. I don’t think having any business experience is why people succeed.