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FUNCTIONS: English 11
• Making plans and predictions
Theme 1
• Making an appointment Future Jobs 3
• Talking on the phone
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1. Have you got any innovative thought to make your life easier? If yes, first write a few sentences
about it and then take a video of yourself telling about your innovative thought and finally put
that video on your E-portfolio.

2. Read the texts numbered 1 and 2. Then answer the questions.

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21 Century Popular Words
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“Entrepreneurship” is a word The human race has always innovated, and in
we throw around every day. a short time went from building fires and making
Originally, it is a French word stone-tipped arrows to creating smartphone apps
that we see everywhere and autonomous robots. Today, technological
from magazine covers to progress will undoubtedly go on changing the
conferences, hotel lobbies, way we work, live and survive in the coming
even in the White House. The decades. “Innovation” is a word we often come
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French word entrepreneur across in the 21 century. We can define this
first appeared in the French word as a new or improved product or process
dictionary in 1700s to describe that differs significantly from the unit’s previous
a person organizing and products or processes and that has been made
operating a business by taking available to a potential product or brought into
a financial risk. Nowadays use by the process. There are different types of
entreptreneurship is defined as innovation such as organizational innovation,
the pursuit of opportunity with process innovation, product innovation, marketing
limited resources. From this innovation, and eco-innovation related with eco-
point of view, we can easily friendly lifestyle and sustainability. 21 century
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make an inference about the makes people think and behave more innovational
entrepreneurial challenges. At to keep up with the fast changing technology.
a basic level, all entrepreneurs Social media, artificial intelligence based products,
try to overcome adversity to smartphones, self-driving cars, and autonomous
pursue an opportunity with flying vehicles, virtual assistants, touchscreen
limited resources. glasses, 3D printers are some innovative
examples.

1 What is the definition of “entrepreneurship”?

2 Where do we see the word “entrepreneur”?

3 How can we define the word “innovation”?

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4 Why do 21 century-people need innovative devices?

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5 What are the examples of 21 century innovations?

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