DRAGON’S DEN PROJECT

INTRODUCTION

What gadgets do you use every day?Who invented them?What famous inventions come from your country?

Have you seen the show Dragons' Den? Do you like it? Why?

UK INVENTIONS

The televisionThe Idiot's Lantern is actually a British invention, dreamed up by Scotsman John Logie Baird in February 1924.

In 1928 Baird also began experimenting with colour TV and in 1932 made the first TV broadcast between London and Glasgow.

UK INVENTIONS

The telephone

Taking existing telegraph tech as his cue, Brit Alexander Graham Bell used his experience working with mute children to come up with the harmonic telegraph- a system that could transmit different tones across wire using multiple reeds. 

UK INVENTIONS

The World Wide Web

Where would we be without Tim Berners-Lee? The Oxford University graduate is credited with coming up with the notion of the World Wide Web - "a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information". 

UK INVENTIONS

The train

The first steam trains appeared in the early 19th Century, but it wasn't until George Stephenson's Rocket arrived in 1829 that the age of the train truly arrived. 

UK INVENTIONS

The cat's eyeThis British invention was dreamed up by Halifax resident Percy Shaw in 1933 as a way to mark out lanes and pavements to traffic travelling at night. The originalcat's eye works by holding a pair of glass 'eyes' in a white rubber housing that's laid into the fabric of road - the eyes reflecting light coming from a car's headlamps back at the driver so he can see the road ahead. 

UK INVENTIONS

Stereo Jet Engine Photography Electric Motor Computer The Tank Radar iPod Lightbulb

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE?

DRAGON’S DEN

Dragon’s Den is a TV show where members of the public pitch new inventions and business ideas to a team of entrepreneurs who decide whether or not to invest in the product.

Watch the pitch and answer the questions which follow.

https://youtu.be/hp5gTE9ZScw(2mins)

HARRY POTTER MAGIC WAND REMOTEWhat is the product and how does it work?

What questions would you ask the inventors?

What are the invention’s strengths and weaknesses?

Do you think it’s a good product to invest in? Why/why not?

PART 2

Were any of your questions answered?(6.35)

Homework:Write a list of tips for a successful pitch.