WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS

Instructions. Fill the gaps with one of the following expressions: bad luck, best of luck, element of luck, out of luck, good luck with that

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

Dominic Barton: Five Trends Reshaping the Global Economy not just inside McKinsey, versus their cohorts. What we found is, the more successful group has had more (1) ………….. , than the less successful group. And, that seems a bit counter-intuitive, right, how could that be the case, the more successful people have more (2) ………….. than less successful and the reason is as you know they've taken more swings at the bat. They've taken more risks and they failed. Medical Device Innovation seen before. We shouldn't also underestimate that all of this is a huge (3) ………….. . It's a lot of being in the right place at the right time. So, I think it's more about creating the opportunities for you to be in the right place at the right Thomas Friedman: Lessons Learned After 20 Years of Writing Columns And each guy's ball would end in, end up in a divot. Greg Norman would say, my luck, I hit a perfect drive. If I didn't have (4)………….. , I'd have no luck at all. Look at this. I'm in the, I hit this drive perfectly. Zappos' Hsieh: Building a Formidable Brand and ten is, I don't know why good things always seem to happen to me. Well, we don't want to hire the ones, cuz they're bad luck and we don't want (5) …………..to come to Zappos. [LAUGH] That, that wouldn't be good. No but this was actually inspired by a research study that I read about several Renee James: "Everybody Who Takes Risks Fails" And you might be like, what are you talking about Renee? I'm going to run like a 100 million dollar company, or a 10 million dollar company. Yeah, (6) ………….. . I mean, the economy, you're going to sell to people all over the world. Guess what? You're going to have to deal Channel: How to Start a Startup Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie) Right now, when you leave this room, is an amazing time to go start an enterprise software company. So I wish you the (7) …………... And of course, if it doesn't work, we are hiring. So, and then the only other caveat is please do Channel: Y Combinator Apoorva Mehta at Startup School NY 2014 as a founder, is an extremely exciting one. One that's filled with hundreds of failures. But, if you persist for long enough, you may just get lucky. (8) …………... [applause] Channel: Business of Architecture Architect Interview: Entrepreneur Architect, Livingstone Mukasa, outsourcing design services example or they may want somebody who is able to actually physically visit the project. So there might be geographic filtering there that they request. So ultimately contractors shouldn't feel that they're (9) …………..necessarily because this has been outsourced to the globe. If they have a specialty in something chances are somebody would want to use that specialty.

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

Dominic Barton: Five Trends Reshaping the Global Economy not just inside McKinsey, versus their cohorts. What we found is, the more successful group has had more (1) ( bad luck) , than the less successful group. And, that seems a bit counter-intuitive, right, how could that be the case, the more successful people have more (2) ( bad luck) than less successful and the reason is as you know they've taken more swings at the bat. They've taken more risks and they failed. Medical Device Innovation seen before. We shouldn't also underestimate that all of this is a huge (3) ( element of luck) . It's a lot of being in the right place at the right time. So, I think it's more about creating the opportunities for you to be in the right place at the right Thomas Friedman: Lessons Learned After 20 Years of Writing Columns And each guy's ball would end in, end up in a divot. Greg Norman would say, my luck, I hit a perfect drive. If I didn't have (4) ( bad luck) , I'd have no luck at all. Look at this. I'm in the, I hit this drive perfectly. Zappos' Hsieh: Building a Formidable Brand and ten is, I don't know why good things always seem to happen to me. Well, we don't want to hire the ones, cuz they're bad luck and we don't want (5) ( bad luck) to come to Zappos. [LAUGH] That, that wouldn't be good. No but this was actually inspired by a research study that I read about several Renee James: "Everybody Who Takes Risks Fails" And you might be like, what are you talking about Renee? I'm going to run like a 100 million dollar company, or a 10 million dollar company. Yeah, (6) ( good luck with that) . I mean, the economy, you're going to sell to people all over the world. Guess what? You're going to have to deal Channel: How to Start a Startup Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie) Right now, when you leave this room, is an amazing time to go start an enterprise software company. So I wish you the (7) ( best of luck) . And of course, if it doesn't work, we are hiring. So, and then the only other caveat is please do Channel: Y Combinator Apoorva Mehta at Startup School NY 2014 as a founder, is an extremely exciting one. One that's filled with hundreds of failures. But, if you persist for long enough, you may just get lucky. (8) ( Best of luck) . [applause] Channel: Business of Architecture Architect Interview: Entrepreneur Architect, Livingstone Mukasa, outsourcing design services example or they may want somebody who is able to actually physically visit the project. So there might be geographic filtering there that they request. So ultimately contractors shouldn't feel that they're (9) ( out of luck) necessarily because this has been outsourced to the globe. If they have a specialty in something chances are somebody would want to use that specialty.

Sources: 

Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4-MyLj-LdE

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