Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS)
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs made technology fun. He was the American businessman and technology visionary. He was the co-founder of Apple Inc. people all over the world use Jobs’ innovative products – the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad and study his management style. Millions of his fans in different countries admire his talent in design, function and style.
He was born on February 24, 1955. The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. His father worked for a company that made lasers. He taught his son some electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work with electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in computers when he was a teenager and attended special lectures after school.
In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician. He saved enough money to travel around India and then came back home. Soon he met Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it. Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs’s parents in order to sell it.
It was the first small computer with a user-friendly interface to be commercially successful. Jobs also built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created.
Jobs guided Apple and the company was one of the leaders in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other innovative products made Apple a powerful brand. It is one of the most valuable companies in the world today. Jobs also worked for Pixar Animation Studios. He created Oscar-winning movies such as “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo”. Jobs’s advice for success is: “You’ve got to find what you love.”
He died in October 2011, aged 56.
1. Steve Jobs made computer technology personal and attractive.
2. iPad was the first of Jobs’s innovative products.
3. Steve Jobs was one of the great world manager.
4. His parents were school teachers.
5. Steve Jobs learned how to work with hands from his father.
6. He was one of the best students in his school.
7. His parents gave him the money to travel around India.
8. Wozniak was Jobs’s companion in founding Apple in 1976.
9. The garage of Jobs’s parents where Apple started was very small.
10. Jobs bought the computer on which the internet was created.
11. Today Apple is one of the most powerful companies.
12. “Toy Story” was Jobs’s favourite film to watch.
13. You should love your Job to be successful.
He used to be noisy when he was young
She used to go to the country when she was 7
I used to walk many years ago
They used to drive fast when he was 20
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Did she use to go to the country?
Did he use to drive fast/
Did they use to walk 5 years ago?
Did you use to play tennis 5 years ago?
I didn't use to walk when I was 5
He didn't use to drive when he was 18
She didn't use to go to the country when she was 7
My mother didn't use to play tennis when she was a pupil
He didn/t use to have a dog
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2) You can be anything you want to be.
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3) My favourite sport is basketball.
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4) It'll rain overnight.
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5) People in Brazil use the internet more than anyone.
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6) Trainers are still in fashion today.
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7) The new hospital will be built in 5 years.
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8) You are not allowed to touch the computer.
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9) I hate cooking abd cleaning. They are boring.
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10) Pollution is dangerous for health.
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11) London is the capital of Great Britain.
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