1. While you are watching

Answer the questions:

1. When and where was the first restaurant opened?

2. Do they have restaurants in other UK cities?

3. Do they have restaurants outside the UK?

4. Who comes first at Pizza Express?

5. Why do people come to Pizza Express? (4 reasons)

6. The founder of Pizza Express talks about how the restaurant treats its employees and explains why people like working for Pizza Express.

Complete the sentences:

1. Pizza Express gives its employees a lot of _________________.

2. The company promotes people who ______________.

3. There are a lot of career opportunities for ____________________.

4. In the early days Peter Boizot worked ______________

5. He passed on his enthusiasm for the new business to all _______________.

6. He thinks the early success was the result of his staff’s _____________.

Answer the question:

What was Peter Boizot’s typical working day when he opened his first restaurant?

7. Listen for the word pizzaiolo. What does it mean?

8. Choose the correct endings for the sentence:

The company wants:

1. all the restaurants to look exactly the same.

2. all the restaurants to make pizza in the same way.

3. the quality of the food should always be the same.

4. all the restaurants to have exactly the same opening hours.

9. What is the best way to maintain product consistency according to Peter?

10. What is important for the process of making pizza?

2. After watching

What strategies make for success?

WRITING

Write an article on Chupa Chups, a Spanish confectionery manufacturer, for a business magazine. Use the notes below, putting the verbs in brackets into appropriate tenses.

The company and its markets

Chupa Chups – Barcelona based sweetmaker

Number 25 worldwide

Market share 0.9%

Lollipops market share 34%

Manufacturing sites – five countries

Familiar to many children in the world

How the company started

1954 Enric Bernat (try) revive sweet manufacture Granja Asturias

He (succeed) in turning company around

1985 (buy) all shares (drop) entire product range / (concentrate) on new Chups lollipop

What it as doing now

Now (build) adult customer base

(Attract) older customers with new flavours

Recent events

(Launch) highly–coloured “tongue–painter” lollipops

Also (diversify) into sugar–free mints with 5 mint range

Resulting sales surge (be) spectacular

Revenues (grow)

Last year (sell) 4bn lollipops

Test structure

1. Use the correct prefix for the verb in brackets to complete the sentence. Pay attention to the tense used. (10)

2. Complete the sentence using the correct tense of the verb in brackets. (5)

3. Use the correct preposition to complete the phrase or sentence. (11)

4. Translate the phrase from Russian into English. (7)

5. Translate the sentences from Russian into English. (4)

6. Say it in other words giving the equivalent from the text about Nokia. (4)

7. Match the idioms to their synonyms. (6)

8. Use the correct idiom to complete the sentence. Do not forget about the grammar tenses. (4)

Idioms

1. to get there

2. to pay off

3. to come up trumps

4. teething troubles

5. to be a high flyer

6. without a hitch

7. a high flyer

138