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Welcome to the Rocket Pitch Program! • Identify the best practices to follow when making a Rocket Pitch; • • The Rocket Pitch is a powerful and disciplined format to present a new business idea. In this program, you will learn the basics of a Rocket Pitch and its various uses. You will have the opportunity in the course of the program to view real Rocket Pitches by current and former students at Babson College. You also have the option to participate in practice exercises designed to reinforce

REAL ESTATE INVESTING IN THE PAST TWO YEARS Brad McLeod Jennifer Minge Laying the Foundation 1. Get educated on purchasing real estate whether you want to do flips or long-term rentals. This industry can be brutal to people who do not know what they are doing and it is easy for a new investor to lose their shirts and thousands of dollars by making mistakes. • Jennifer attended both the John Adams Investor Institute and the GAREIA Boot camp. I would recommend the GAREIA boot camp. You

BEVERAGE OUTLETS Could be a restaurant or a take away F&B outlets during middle age Mainly banquet could be wedding, celebrate end of war, For the lord Welcomes the travelers for F&B and for accommodations. people don’t have to pay because they have to welcome for free. Inn: At this time the first INN (relais de poste) The money, the support was coming from the lord. The monks They make alcohol mainly beer and wine. It was protected by walls. In the middle of this area they were cultiving

1. The need for different thinking • We are creatures of our habits: analytical, convergent, critical, left-brain thinking. • We express our thinking in different forms: memos, e-mails, equations, accountants, pictures, models, oratory and stories. • Convergent thinking (We are trained at school and university to summarize, scrutinize and evaluate the works of authors and scientists) and divergent thinking (we can generate all sorts of ideas that are not obviously connected with

situation. At the end of my internship, in December, I joined the housekeeping service at the Marriott Champs-Elysées. For three weeks I have been doing the evening shift, from 3 pm until 11 pm. The hotel uses a cleaning company to hire cleaning ladies and valets, the housekeeping service has to communicate with the front desk, and wich receives requests from the guests concerning the time or their observations for the cleaning service. In the end of the afternoon, around 6:00 pm, the general housekeeper

INFLATION: In the early 60’s, prices were stable and were not rising quickly. Kennedy, however, wanted to stimulate economic growth and reduce unemployment; both usually not occurring at the same time without inflation. His policy worked at the beginning but starting 1965, inflation reached an annual increase of 4,5% every year until 1970. The principal reason of this instability was the war in Vietnam because the government was spending more money than they had to finance the different aspects of the war

The first text 1. The first main point of the text is that there is a different perception and meaning of the time from one culture to another that can create misunderstandings. • “Time is elastic in many cultures but snaps taut in others. Indeed, the way members of a culture perceive and use time reflects their society’s priorities and even their own worldview.” • In this example we can understand that it is not everyone that has the same notion of time. 2. The second main point is that the

This report represents the result of our survey about the most favorite hobbies of teenagers. This study alows us knowing if teenagers have free time and in wich way they use it : in a positive or a negative way ? We sound out a group of (40) teenagers from different social levels. When we questioned them if they had a hobby, only (7) informants said that they haven’t. (4) of these (7) said that the reason was the lack of time. (20) of the (33) other informants (who practise a hobby)

APPEARANCE 1. Complete the labels with suitable words from the box. Not all words given are suitable. belt handbag shoe suit blouse dress jacket skirt waistcoat suitcase boot earring socks tie briefcase glasses shirt 2. Underline the most suitable word or phrase. a) At Harry's school, the children have to wear a special style/uniform. b) If we go to the Embassy ball we'll have to wear fashion/formal/polite clothes. c) I really like Jack's new dress/suit/trouser. d) In the summer I always wear

we are going to talk about a very fascinating part of the English language. Give me an S Give me an L Give me an A Give me an N Give me an G! Yes, today, we’re going to talk all about SLANG. So the first question must be… What exactly is slang? Using slang means replacing a common word or sentence with a totally new one. The use of slang has been around from many years. It is often associated with younger people. Mainly due to the fact that each new generation wants its own identity