Unit 1 language learning and my future profession

Reading

Ex. 1. You are going to read an article about five young people who have each made a lot of money by setting up a business. For questions 1-15 choose from the people (A-E). The people may be chosen more than once. When more than one answer is required, they may be given in any order. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Which young person:

is carrying on a family tradition? 0 - C

found one part of the work hard at the beginning? 1 -

says that he/she prefers to be his/her own boss? 2-

is careful with money? 3 - 4 -

got financial help from an organization? 5-

says he/she does the work mostly for the money? 6 - 7 -

feels that further education would be a waste of time? 8 -

ignored advice that he/she was given? 9-

says he/she finds the work itself the main motivation? 10 -

has turned an initial disappointment to his/her advantage? 11 - 12 -

says he/she enjoys the creative side of the business most? 13 -

is willing to give up aspects of his/her social life for the business? 14 -

has received a prize in recognition of what he/she has achieved? 15 -

HOW TO GET RICH YOUNG

We asked five young people who have already made their fortunes in business to tell us the secret of their success.

A Justin Etzin (24)

It all began when Justin, then aged 16, tried to get into a nightclub and was turned away for being too young. “After that, I kept on at them until they let me organize an under-20s party,” he recalls. “They were expecting about 50 teenagers to turn up, but I’d found them 2000!’ Justin continued organizing parties during his school holidays and had made enough money by the age of 18 to buy himself a speedboat. Today, at 24, he has other business interests and a fortune of $2 million. But Justin’s not just in it for the financial rewards. “What gets me excited is coming up with new ideas,” he insists, “and at the end of the day, I’d rather be healthy than wealthy”.

B Lee Allen (20)

Lee set up a sports - coaching business when he was just 18. “Everyone warned me that it was a tough world and I wasn’t experienced enough to take the disappointments that lay ahead. But I felt confident in what I was doing, so I took no notice from them. My idea was to coach children with special needs and because nobody else was doing that, I got a grant and an office from Mencap, a charity which helps the mentally disabled. At first, the administrative side was a real struggle, but I managed it somehow. Last year, the company I set up won an award for being the most innovative new business in the country. That means more to me than any money I’ve made out of it.”

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