my rottentomatoes.com movie - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

What a movie. This is the third chapter of a greate adventure trilogy.
Harrison Ford and Sean Connery are the both main characters in this funny
adventure. You can´t believe that fun and adventure are working together.

Look that movie and you believe.

Here is a good review … to learn some new vocabulary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/01/08/indiana_jones_and_the_last_crusade_1989_review.shtml

my rottentomatoes.com movie - Elizabeth

I choose the movie Elizabeth from rottentomatoes.com.

The dramatic movie was confusing sometimes because of all the intrigues and the secrets. But I like the development of Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) from a romantic young woman to a hard-hearted queen.

At the end she overcome all mans without being married, what I found noteworthy for the 16th century. In this issue I remember the sentence “I’m married to England”.
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business phrases from the floor

marketing proposition - how to make money

creative people

personal stereo = the sony walkman (mid eighties)

checking out

bright ideas

product portfolio

commercial proposition

marketing consultant

financial controller

lucky breaks

over-reliance = to much trust

beeing negative - often counter-productive

commercial basis

problem solving

business card

leteral thinking = creative -, via unusual ways

risk-taker

breaking up

counter-productive = unproductive, against an aim

on speaking terms = do not speak

Self-study program December

1. pay 180€ to cost center 29302 (71302 next year)

2. access rottentomatoes.com regarding movie ratings

• >60% means positive
• check music and lyrics
• find a review close to your opinion

3. bring a discussion topic to Timmendorf (with a business connection): be ready to explain/discuss

4. buy “New Business Matters”, Mark Powell, Coursebook, without CDs, 27.50€; repeat chapter 7 — Innovation

5. check ideo.com,  a creativity company; ask D for Business Week article on them

6. read articles that you find online or that we send each other

7. check bbc.co.uk

8. use Google News and change to .com version

9. check nyt.com - best newspaper in USA

10. check iht.com

11. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008!

business words and phrases

Here typical mis-pronounced words:

• clothes
• gross weight
• months
• gauge
• thermometer

Here the vocabulary.

no-brainer = a question very easy to answer

to crater = decreased straight down, is at the bottom

open-plan office = without wallspersonnel, personal

ubiquitous = everywhere at the same time

Prozac = anti depressiva

breach = break; - firewall, - contract, - security

What does it say? = read it again!

red tape = synonym for bureaucracy

she’s plain = not well dressed, not styled

periodicals = magazines

slippery customer = a customer you cannot trust

camp = overdone

defense against

Introductions

Here the typical questions with possible answers.

How do you do (a signal only, no question)

• How do you do
• Pleased/Good/Nice to meet you
• Hello
• Nice meeting you
• It’s a pleasure to meet you
• It’s a real pleasure to meet you

What do you do? (profession)

• I’m a …
• I work in …

What are you doing? (now)

• I’m working on a new project…
• I’m writing…

How is it going?
How are you doing?

Fine, thank you.

Why Watersmeet?

Wikipedia has quite a good article to jump into this subject. Watersmeet was chosen for a series of commercials on ESPN because of the unusual nickname of its school — Nimrods. The tag line of the commercials was “Without sports, who would cheer for the Nimrods?” I found the homepage of this commercial series at ESPN but unfortunately not the Nimrod ad video itself. If you have, please comment.
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