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[pic 1]LISTENING ACTIVITY TECHNICAL ENGLISH
Teacher: Sandra Rocio Alba Rosas Date: -2015
Group: 750457 Comercio Internacional Students: Lina Lorena Olaya Casallas
Ray Kroc, 1902-1984: The Man Who Made
McDonald's Popular AroundtheWorld
I. Listen toRayKroc’sbiography (up to 8’00) (los primeros 8 minutos son introductorios al tema y de ellos no hay que contestar nada)
a) Complete this table:
WHEN | WHERE | WHAT |
1984 | Not known | His death |
Raymond Albert Kroc | Des plaines, Illinois | He was born |
At the age of 15 | Not known | He became a driver for the red cross during WW1 |
After the war | Not known | He became a musical and political international icon |
At the age of | Not known | He got married |
Not known | Florida | |
1954 | went to San Bernardino, California | to see the McDonald brothers' restaurant, |
At the age of 52 | Near Chicago, Illinois | mortgaged all their property and personal savings to become the official distributor of a milk machine brand called "Multimixer" |
1999 | Not known | The chain had 200 restaurants |
III. Listen to the last part of the programme. b) Was Ray Kroc always successful? Justify your answer:
- Whether because he was a businessman who never gave up so easily
c) Cross out the job he did not do during his life:
He was a ….driver – salesman – accountant – musician – estate agent – businessman –
Restaurant manager.
- a musician
- estate agent
II. Listen to the third part of the programme (up to 10’30)
a) Complete the missing words:
Fast food restaurants spread quickly in the United States because of system of (quality, service, cleanliness and value) means selling the legal right to operate a store in a company's chain to an independent business person. If the company approves, the business person may buy or the globalization the store for a period of years. Many people want to own a McDonald's restaurant, but not are approved. Each restaurant buys its supplies at a low price from the parent company. Each restaurant also gives the company about 70 percent of the money it earns in sales. Today, about 33,000 percent of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent businessmen and women.
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