2. Quiz your
friends:
When was the last time you
took coffee?
What is your favorite coffee
brand? Do you like it hot or
cold?
Have you made coffee at
home before? How did it
taste?
What is the most expensive
Cup of coffee you have ever
bought?
Can you name 5 coffee
shops around your area?
When do you drink coffee?
4. What is the main topic of the passage?
Which is NOT true about Starbucks’ first 10 years of
business?
How a company has grown.
What can be added to coffee.
The kind of coffee that customers like.
How to make coffee.
It opened only three stores
It was run by Howard Schultz.
Its head of marketing lived in New York.
It roasted its own beans.
Reading Comprehension
5. Who is Howard Schultz?
Which of the following is TRUE according to the
passage?
A coffee seller from New York
An Italian coffee maker.
The man who changed the company.
One of the original owners of Starbucks.
Starbucks closed most of its US shops.
There are 16,000Starbucks in the US.
Schultz no longer works for the company.
It is in thousands of locations worldwide.
Reading Comprehension
6. What led to the closing of some Starbucks locations?
All of the coffee tastes the same.
Cultures that do not drink coffee.
Selling drinks that are too expensive.
Too many coffee shops in one place.
Reading Comprehension
7. On the other hand
Catch one’s eye
As a matter of fact
IdIoms
8. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in ____
Seattle in the United States. A man in New York noticed
the small company bought a lot of special equipment to
make coffee. He went to Seattle to learn about the
company and was later ____ by Starbucks. This man
changed the ____ of the stores and helped to make
Starbucks a huge company. ____, Starbucks today has
stores in thousands of _____ in countries worldwide.
As a matter of fact atmosphere
created downtown hired
locations
Target Vocabulary
