1. Business English Upper Intermediate 117109-01 John Silberstein johnsilb@aol.com

2. Agenda Franchising: One Day in my life Test prep: Sentence Correction – Short Article

3. One Day in My Life 1.Why is Vanessa Stein able to start training one of the floor managers on the ‘computerized accounts?’ 2.How long did Tom Stein train before being able to purchase their Franchise. 3.Who runs the training programs and who pays for the Training Programs? 4.Who makes monthly checks on every McDonalds in the UK? 5.What other types of ‘dialogue’ take place? 6.What are some of the advantages that Vanessa Stein talks about. 7.Does owning a franchise like this seem like something you would like to do? Why or why not?

4. Test Prep Article: YouTube 1.What type of service is YouTube trying to introduce? 2.What are some of the challenges that YouTube faces in signing up content providers? 3.Why is it important for YouTube to show that it can control copyrighted content? 4.Why would the major studios be interested in consider YouTube as a method of exploiting their movies? 5.Would you use a service like YouTube to rent movies? Why or Why not?