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I. LISTENING AND READING
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A GREAT IDEA?
Eric Noland is a second-year Business
Studies student at Thames Valley University. He
thinks he has found a good way to make money.
He needs £5,000 to get his idea off the ground, but
his father has refused to help.
“My idea is very simple, really. I already
have a small website called businessessays.com
and it is very successful. Business students at
university log on to the site and download essays.
They have an essay to write for homework, for
example, but they need some help with it. On the
site, they find the
essay they need, download it and
use it for their work.
At the moment, the site is free but if I
improve it, that
will change. If I
make the site
much bigger, it
will become international. If I
find
some software that can translate the essays into
sixteen different languages, it
will be easy for
people from all round the world to use my site.
If I
do all the programming and
find money
to buy the software, everything
will be ready.
When I
improve the site, people
will pay £2.99 a
month to use my service. If it is successful, I
will
sell advertising, too.
Of course, I can't continue with my
university studies and set up the site at the same
time. And if I
wait, someone else
will take my
idea and it
will be too late.”
II. NOTES
Eric Noland ['erik 'nɔlənd]
Эрик Ноленд
Thames Valley University
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