WEEK 2
ENUMERATIVE PARAGRAPH (personality & work)
WRITING TASK 4: What qualities do you think are necessary in order to be a successful businessman.
Support your choices with details / examples. WRITE 180 – 200 WORDS.
1) imaginative
see opportunities / innovations / Bill Gates, Steve Jobs
2) hard-working
long hours / Sakıp Sabancı
3) versatile
different jobs esp. when starting
I think that a successful businessman must be imaginative, hardworking and versatile. (12) The first important factor is imagination.
A successful entrepreneur must be able to see business opportunties
before his rivals. In addition, he must constantly develop new
innovations to attract more customers. Good examples of this are
Bill Gates and Steve Jobes. Both of these businessmen became
tycoons because they saw the possibilities of personal computers and
had the imagination to develop software for them. (64) Another
necessary quality is to be hard-working.
Many successful
businessmen are not successful immediately. They have to work long
hours to establish their company. For example, although Sakıp
Sabancı was a rich man later in his life, when he was young, he
worked non-stop to help his business grow. (49) The final aspect is
versatility. This is vital because when a businessman starts, he
probably has to do many different jobs in his company. He may be
responsible for product design, accounts, advertising and customer
services. In order to do all these jobs well, he needs to have a wide
range of skills. (53) In conclusion, successful businessmen tend to be
creative, hard-working and versatile. I believe that creativity is the
most important factor because it enables you to keep one step ahead
of your competitors. (32)
TOTAL: 210 words
WEEK 2
ENUMERATIVE PARAGRAPH (personality & work)
NOTES
1) adjectives & nouns
In the introduction, try to use all adjectives or all nouns. Don’t mix
them.
A successful businessman needs many qualities, such as ambition,
creativity and versatility.
A successful businessman needs to be ambitious, creative and
versatile.
2) If you use ‘such as’, it must go right next to the noun it describes.
Successful businessmen must work hard, such as Sakıp Sabancı and
Bill Gates.
Successful businessmen, such as Sakıp Sabancı and Bill Gates, must
work hard.
3) Don’t forget that ‘absolutely’ must go with an extreme adjective
(or noun).
He is absolutely hard-working. He must be absolutely ambitious.
He is an absolute workaholic.
He must be absolutely driven.