Friday, October 28, 2016

Friday's Assignment

What are business secrets? How can you protect them?



Here are your tasks:
  1. Role play: Finding Loopholes
  2. Listen to this Dragons’ Den pitch.
    1. Write down names, financials, and outcome.

    1. Take dictation of the inventor’s words from 3:01 to 3:30, and check your transcript with 2 partners.
we put half a million dollars mainly because(of) my patents and making the mould, which is  expensive in Canada. Yes, first of all my 
health(insurance). And my other saving, which is from Nortel Network where I was working.All my RRSPs, all my mutual funds... 
Yes.


We put half a million dollars mainly because (of) my patents and making the mould, which is expensive in Canada. Yes, first of all my health (insurance). And my other savings, which is from Nortel Networks, where I was working. All my RRSPs, all my mutual funds. ... Yes.
  1. In fewer than 20 words, describe one business idea that comes to mind.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Wednesday's Assignment

Today, we'll take a bit of time to talk about our coming field trip to Queen's Park.

Listen to the following short video clip twice. Click on CC the first time. Then turn off CC.

Write down 5 - 10 words that you understand.

Tell a partner what you think the talk is all about
  1. founder
  2. region 
  3. establish
  4. president 
  5. association 
  6. legislature 
  7. union 
  8. addition
  9. accomplished 
  10. hoppy 
  11. recently
  12. province 
  13. receiving