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Vocabulary

Here are the vocabularies for “Describe A Successful Small Company Or Business That You Know” with examples:

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  Booming: Having a sudden increase in business, wealth, and success.
  Eg: The owner was able to buy new machinery because his company was booming and he had money to invest
  
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  Start-ups: Companies that are just opening.
  Eg: Many start-ups fail because they do not have enough money to survive their first year in business.
  
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  Chain: A group of businesses owned by the same company.
  Eg: There are about 6 large chains of supermarkets selling food in the UK.
  
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  Boutique: A small business that sells fashionable products.
  Eg: A famous street in London is full of small boutiques selling all the latest styles of clothes.
  
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  Franchises: Businesses that have been given permission by a company to sell its products in a particular area.
  Eg: The largest restaurant franchise in the UK is McDonald’s.
  
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  Word of mouth: The chain is famous because people have talked about it to each other.
  Eg: The news of the accident spread by word of mouth, hours before it was reported on TV.
  
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  Brand name: The name given to a product by the company that produces it.
  Eg: The brand name of the most famous trainers is NIKE.
  
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  Investment: A sum of money that you lend to a business, expecting that you will make more money over a period of time.
  Eg: The investment of money by the bank enabled the business to expand.
  

Change
Do you think change is good?
Time and change compliment each other a great deal. In the past few years a quite number of changes have taken both to the negative and also the positive in my country Uzbekistan. The educational system has changed drastically from what is use to be in the past in terms of more conductive learning environment, qualified personnel’s and fewer conflicts in the system. Furthermore,
In what ways have changes in technology changed people's lives?
Answer: Modern technology today is an integral part of our lives, and therefore, we will have to live with it whether we like it or not.
Among the advantages of modern technology, I can say that it has made our lives much easier than it used to be ever before a few decades ago. It has revolutionized our production systems in all kinds of businesses and industries by increasing the output, quality and efficiency at all levels. The advancement in the communication technology, with the advent of the internet, has made communication among us so easy and fast that we can actually talk to each other on video even if we are a world apart from each other. Besides, modern technologies also made it pretty easy for us to get access to virtually any kind of information at any time and anywhere through smart gadgets like the iPad, iPhone, Galaxy tablets and etc. Finally, the use of modern technology has also made it very easy for us to travel long distances really fast. In fact, nowadays, we can travel a 10 miles distance within just a few minutes, if not any lesser, by using electric trains, aeroplanes and fast cars which