Biosketch or biographical sketch
A biosketch is a brief summary of you or someone else's professional /educational accomplishments, publications, and affiliations--an abbreviated curriculum vitae--meant to highlight important aspects of your training, experience, and areas of interest.
Take a look at the following examples:
BOYAN SLAT
CEO and Founder
Boyan Slat (1994) is a Dutch aerospace engineering student, entrepreneur inventor who creates technologies to tackle global issues of sustainability. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, where he is responsible for overall strategy and cleanup technology development. Boyan Slat has always been recognized as an outstanding young entrepreneur. He has been selected one of the 20 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs Worldwide (Intel EYE50), and was crowned 2014 Champion of the Earth, the United Nations' highest environmental accolade. In 2015, HM King Harald of Norway awarded Boyan the maritime industry's Young Entrepreneur Award, and Foreign Policy magazine included Boyan in their 2015 list of Global Thinkers.
JULIA REISSER
Lead Oceanographer
Julia Reisser (1984) leads the oceanographic team and the ocean plastic research expeditions. She is responsible for increasing the knowledge on mass, distribution, and impacts of plastics across the world’s oceans. Initially starting her academic career in Brazil, she then moved across the world to do her PhD in Oceanography at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on understanding how ocean physical processes influence plastic pollution and marine life. Julia has led many research expeditions in the Atlantic, 2012; Pacific, 2013; and Indian and Southern Oceans, 2014 resulting in 15 publications on plastic pollution and biology topics to date.
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Retrieved from: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/about.html (April, 2016)
Adapted by: Alejandra Jiménez Quintero (for educational purposes)
Pronunciation tip:
How to pronounce regular verbs in past:
1. Watch the video and take notes in your notebook:
2. Practice the pronunciation by reading aloud.
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3. Take a quiz.
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Grammar in Context:
Task:
Choose one of the following biographies and observe how the verb tenses are used. When to use simple past or present perfect?
Brad Pitt:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3081
Homework:
Prepare your own biosketch draft by September 13th. Bring it in a piece of paper, please or write it in the following file:
September 6, 2016
Following with the topic of entrepreneurs and creators, have you realized that there are more men entrepreneurs than women? why do you think it has happened? does it still continue being in this way?
By the way, one of the most amazing inventions of all the times has been Wifi, don't you think so? and do you know who its creator was? well, it was a woman! yes, a woman!
Let's watch a video about this amazing woman:
Listening comprehension questions:
1. Who was Hedy Lamarr?
2. What happened in 1933?
3. How did she fly away from her husband?
4. What did she do in Hollywood?
5. What did she invent?
6. When did she die?
But there have also been other entrepreneurs or creators who have contributed to a social change in other ways, let's see the story of Evans Wadongo:
Listening comprehension questions:
1. Why has Evans had problems with his eyesight?
2. How have children from Evans' community done to study?
3. What has his invention impact been?
4. What has Evans's satisfaction been?
Grammar Review
Simple past lesson (basic)
Simple past lesson (advanced)
1. Why has Evans had problems with his eyesight?
2. How have children from Evans' community done to study?
3. What has his invention impact been?
4. What has Evans's satisfaction been?
Grammar Review
Simple past lesson (basic)
Simple past lesson (advanced)
Present Perfect Reading Exercise
Task:
Choose one of the following biographies and observe how the verb tenses are used. When to use simple past or present perfect?
Brad Pitt:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3081
August 25
Today we will be working on an interesting speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University.
Listening Exercise
1. Watch the first part of the video ('39) and answer these questions:
- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
- What was his occupation?
- He said his speech was about...
2. Watch the whole video and answer more questions.
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
Who ended up adopting him?
What happened when he started college?
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
What did he have to do when he was in college?
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
Second story: Love and Loss
How old was he when he started Apple?
Why was he fired from his own company?
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
What did he say about work?
Third story: Death
What did he think of death?
Extra Task
Look up these words in a monolingual dictionary:
verbs
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nouns
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adjectives
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drop out
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put out
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tuition
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awful
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drop in
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release
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loss
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well-worn
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find out
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stumble into
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baton
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foolish
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figure out
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clear out
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brick
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lead off
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get fired
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commencement
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work out
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quit
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embarrassment
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turn out
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relent
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subtle
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screw up
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spend
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trap (n)
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button up
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settle
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drown out
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free (v)
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look forward
look backward |
trap (v)
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come back
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dawn on (v)
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Vocabulary strategy: Put the words and their definitions on individual cards. Include a sample sentence that illustrates how the word may be used in context.
One of the objectives in our course is to work on our creativity, actually to learn another language is necessarily to develop our creativity to enjoy our English learning process.
Take a look at the following video about what the creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson says about it
Listening Exercise
ResponderEliminar1. He never graduated of the university
2. He was a Management of Apple INC
3. He said his speech was about … just three stories of his life
First story: Connecting dots
1. He was adopted professional people
2. His mother had never graduated from college and his father never graduated from high school
3. He couldn’t see the value in it
4. Because he could take a typography course
5. Slept on the floor in friend’s room and return coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food whit this
6. Because the Macintosh is the personal computer with de better calligraphy in the world
7. When the points are connected you will have the confidence to do what your heart says
Second story: Love and Loss
1. He was 20 years old when he started Apple
2. The vision of the future between him and the new manager began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out
3. He started a Company named NeXT another company named Pixar and he fell in love with an amazing woman
4. He said we should do what we love, we should seek and never give up
Third story: Death
1. He thinks that death is the best tool to make good decisions, because it makes you think you have nothing to lose
FIRST PART
ResponderEliminar1. Not completed his university studies
2. He was a entrepreneur. Apple founder
3. 3 stories about his life
FIRST STORY
1. Her mother wanted adopted by the professional parents and also had the opportunity to go to college.
2. A couple who was not professional
3. I did not know what to do with his life. He could find no value to college.
4. Because so he could choose the classes that seem really interesting. He could learn typography for was fascinating, and also mark an important milestone in your life.
5. He had to sleep on the floor, in the room of his friends, and changed cans of Coke for 5 cents to eat. He walked 10km on Sunday for dinner at the Hare Krishna temple.
6. He took the course out of curiosity and intuition, and then was useful for creating and designing the first Macintosh computer.
7. It refers to the connection points as to make sense of each step you take in life. believe that the points along the way join, gives you the confidence to listen to your heart.
SECOND STORY
1. He was 20 years
2. Because he did not share the same vision of the future with your partner and for this reason there was a discussion.
3. He began again. He started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with his future wife.
4. Work fills a large portion of the life of every person, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to believe that what you do is a great job and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
THIRD STORY
1. Think of death has been something that has helped make the big choices in life. Believe that going to die is the only way to lose the fear of failure.
1.He never graduated from college
ResponderEliminar2. He was the apple and pixar CEO
3. The speech was about three stories of his life.
First story
1. His biological mom wanted that a graduated couple adopted him, someone like a lawyer and his wife.
2. His biological mom found up, that the adopted family wasn’t what she expected. The mom didn’t graduate from college and the father didn’t graduate from high school.
3. He started studying in a college where he was spending all of his parents savings, but he didn’t find any value to his life.
4. He could stopped taking the required clases that didn’t seem useful for him, and begin the ones that were more interesting for him.
5. He didn’t have a room, so he slept in the floor of his friend’s rooms; he also returned bottles for a 5cent deposit to buy food with this, and every Sunday night he walked 7 miles to get one good meal at a temple.
6. Later on this class helped him to make that the Macintosh had multiple typography.
7. We can’t connect the dots looking forwards, but we can connect them looking backwards, so we have to trust that the dots will connect somehow and this will give us the confidence to follow our heart.
Second story
1. He started apple in his parents garage when he was 20.
2. He hired someone to run the company with him, and for the first years this worked perfect, but then their visions started to diverge, and the directors were supporting his "friend", so he get fired.
3. He started all over again, in this process he created two more companies, Next, and Pixar (now days the most successful computer animation studio)
4. Work will fill a large part of our life and the only way to be truly satisfied is if we love what we do.
Third story
1. Every single day he looked at the mirror and asked himself, if today was the last day of my life do I want to do, what I’m about to do? If the answer was no, this mean that he was in the wrong way. Thinking about death was the best tool to follow his heart.
Luis Osorio
ResponderEliminarWhere did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
He said that he never graduated from college. but it seemed as if he was graduating in that commencement too, so I guess it was Stanford.
What was his occupation?
At moment he was the CEO of Apple and Pixar.
He said his speech was about...
3 stories, one about connecting dots, other about love and loss, and the last one about death.
What did his biological mother want for him?
Her biological mother wanted him to raised college graduates.
Who ended up adopting him?
A couple that weren´t college graduates. And the father wasn´t even a highschool graduate.
What happened when he started college?
He decided to drop out, because he couldn´t see the value on it, and he wasting his parent´s savings.
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
He said it was his best decision because after doing that, he was able to drop in the courses that he was really interested, which ended up paying well since he could apply what he had learnt during the developing of his computer.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
Since he wasn´t part of the institution anymore, he didn´t have a dorm room, so he had to sleep on the floor of the dorm rooms of his friends. He returned bottles for the 5cent deposit to buy food. And
he would walk 7 miles across town every Sunday to have a good meal at a temple.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
His calligraphy class had impact in his career because he was able to implement that knowledge in the developing of his computer. So the mac system was the first with beautiful typography and that made it seem really appealing.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
By connecting dots he meant looking backwards and see how you can integrate all your life choices and abilities to have a successful life.
How old was he when he started Apple?
He was 20 years old when he started apple.
Why was he fired from his own company?
As the company was growing he hired someone to help him run the company, at first it went well, until they had some disagreements about their visions of the future and had a falling out. When that happen the board of directors sided with the other guy, and so he was fired.
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He decided to start over, he created 2 companies, Next and Pixar which became really successful.
What did he say about work?
Since work is going to be a huge part of our lives, the only way to be satisfied with ourselves, is to do what we believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what we do.
What did he think of death?
He thought that death was life´s best invention because it is an agent of change, that death clears the old to make wave for the new. And since the younger generations are the new, they need to be aware of death, so they don't waste their lives working for someone else and instead work in whatever makes them happy.
Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe never graduated from college.
What was his occupation?
He was the CEO of Apple.
-His speech was about three stories.
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
His mom was very young and ungraduated student to raise him, so she’s decided to put him out to adoption
Who ended up adopting him?
He was going to be adopted by college’s graduated, but at the last minute they decided that they wanted a girl, so at the end his parents decided to stay with him
What happened when he started college?
When he started, after 6 months, he saw that he hadn’t developed as he wanted to and he hasn’t no idea about what was he going to do with his life and how the college was going to help him to figure out.
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
He said that, because when was looking back he realized that is was the best decision of his life.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
He didn’t have a dorm room, so he slept on the floor and friend’s rooms, he had to catch the coke bottles of five-cents to buy some food with, and moreover he had to walk seven miles on Sundays to get one meal at Krishna temple.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
It had a great impact in his life, because with everything he larned of that class he applied on the “MacAdvantage” he was doing to his Company.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
He wanted to say that when we are studying we dont see the importance of some subjects and for him to have taken the calligraphy class was the key to make a great job on his creation, he told us that no matter if in this moment we dont see in what we can use that topics, becuase in the future we could use them all.
Second story: Love and Loss
How old was he when he started Apple?
He was 20 years old when he started Apple.
Why was he fired from his own company?
He was fired of his own Company,because the view of the future he had, was very different comparing to new manager.
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He started a Company called next, another called pixar,wich is the most succesful animation studio of the wolrd,he met a wonderful woman who became his wife.
What did he say about work?
He said that we should do what we loke, and we didn’t find yet, he said, keep looking for.
Third story: Death
What did he think of death?
Every day he looked at the mirror and asked himself, if today was the last day of my life do I want to do, what I’m about to do? If the answer was no, this mean that he was in the wrong way. Thinking about death was the best tool to follow his heart.
1. Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe never graduated from college.
2. What was his occupation?
His occupation was CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Apple and Pixar Animation
3. He said his speech was about… three stories from his life
4. What did his biological mother want for him?
His mother wanted for him that he was adopted by college graduates.
5. Who ended up adopting him?
He was adopted by parents who never finished the college and high school.
6. What happened when he started college?
He hadn´t idea that he wanted to do with his life and he hadn´t idea how college was going to help him figure it out.
7. Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
He decided to leaving college and trust that it would all work out OK.
8. What did he have to do when he was in college?
He hadn´t dorm room so he slept on the floor in friends´ room. He returned coke bottles to buy food with the 5 cent deposits. He walked 7 miles across town every Sunday night to eat a good meal at the Hare Krishna
9. How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
When he was designing the first Macintosh computer with others, he need the calligraphy class, it was the first computer with beautiful typography.
10. What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
He should us that the unique way that I can connect the dots is looking backwards. The dots will somehow connect in our future. The dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.
11. How old was he when he started Apple?
He was 20 years old.
12. Why was he fired from his own company?
There was discord with his partner, they didn´t share their point of view, their vision.
13. What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar. He melt a wonderful woman who would become his wife.
14. What did he say about work?
The work fills a big part of our life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do a great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
15. What did he think of death?
The death is the most important tool which help us take good decisions
-Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe completes his college education at Stanford University.
-What was his occupation?
He was the CEO of Apple.
-His speech was about three stories
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
She wanted that his son could go to the college.
Who ended up adopting him?
The father had never graduated from high school and her mother had never graduated from college.
What happened when he started college?
The university was really expensive and he had no idea what he wanted to do in his life.
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
Because he could stop taking the classes that didn’t interest her.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
He had to sleep on the floor and he returned bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food whit.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
When he was designing the first Macintosh computer the calligraphy’s classes came back to him.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
That is impossible to connect the dots looking forward you can only connect looking backwards.
Second story: Love and Loss
How old was he when he started Apple?
He was 20 when he started Apple.
Why was he fired from his own company?
Because them visions of future began to diverge and the board of directors was with his partner.
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He started two companies, Pixar and Next.
What did he say about work?
The work is going to fill a large part of your life and we have to love what we do.
Third story: Death
What did he think of death?
The death is the best invention of life, it is life’s change agent and it clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe never graduated from college.
- What was his occupation?
His occupation was the CEO of apple and pixar animation.
- He said his speech was about...
His speech was about three stories of his life.
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
She decided to put him up for adoption
Who ended up adopting him?
Her mother had never graduated from college and her father didn’t even have graduated from high school.
He was adopted by people that didn’t get any title of a college.
What happened when he started college?
He didn’t even know what to do with his life at that moment; he didn’t have an idea about collage could be for him, he wasted the money that his parents had saved their entire life.
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
Because he could take some courses that he was very interested.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
He had to walk more than 7 miles to eat something of good food, then he had to sleep on the floor of his classmate’s rooms.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
His knowledge about calligraphy was used to create a particular calligraphy for mac computers.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
I think that he wanted to say that everyone can find harmony in his life.
Second story: Love and Loss
How old was he when he started Apple?
He was 20 years old.
Why was he fired from his own company?
He needed to help with his company, then he had to divide up his company; his vision of the company’s future diverged with the visons of the person that he thought was very talented, and then he got fired.
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He created two new companies that were named Next and Pixar.
What did he say about work?
We have to find what we love, do what we believe are greet work and the only way to do a great work is to love what we do.
Third story: Death
What did he think of death?
It is life’s change agent.
- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe not complete his college education
- What was his occupation?
CEO, Apple and Pixar Animation
- He said his speech was about...
About three histories about his life
1. What did his biological mother want for him?
Decide put in adoption and want what he be adopted by college graduates
2. Who ended up adopting him?
Parent witout good education
3. What happened when he started college?
He doesn´t feel what the university was going help, ang his parents have loose all money his parents had saved for his college tutition
4. Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
Ten years after because you can´t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. When he was create the firs Mac
5. What did he have to do when he was in college?
Sleep in the floor on the room of us friends and because he didn´t have a dorm room, walk a long distance every Sunday for food
6. How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
This class help his when he was create the firs Mac with beautiful typography
7. What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
You need believe in yourself and think what the thing could be better in the future and next see in the past for connect the dots
1. How old was he when he started Apple?
When he was 20
2. Why was he fired from his own company?
Because his partner and he had different vision of the future and board of directors sided with him.
3. What did he do after being fired from Apple?
First he think running away from the valley but he don’t this because he love what he did and he decided to start over and he started a company named Next and another company named Pixar.
4. What did he say about work?
La only way to be satisficed is to do what you think is a great work .Don´t settle keep looking the work that you like
1. What did he think of death?
Live every day as if it were the last, remember that he`ll be dead soon to help he make the big choices in his life
1. He did not graduated
ResponderEliminar2. CEO apple and Pixar animation
3. Just three stories, but he talked about life.
1.1 She was looking for a couple that give him to a collage
1.2. An ungraduated couple
1.3. He did not understand how collage can help to find his way
1.4. Because he never would do what he did if he were go to collage
1.5. He gathered bottles to buy food. He has a hard time because he has not money
1.6. Ten years later when he understood the meaning and put it into the mac.
1.7. Trust in ours decisions because we will see the real meaning later.
2.2. He was 20 years old
2.3. He has different opinions about the future of the company
2.4. He started from zero and created two successful companies
2.5. Don’t settle and find some work that you can do happy some one that you love
3.1. Death is an intellectual concept when old things open the doors to new things
Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe never graduated from the college.
- What was his occupation?
He was the
- He said his speech was about.
He was speech about his life
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
She want that he was adopted by college graduates
Who ended up adopting him?
He was adopted for a women had never graduate from college and a men that had never graduate from high school
What happened when he started college?
He doesn’t know what want to study and doesn’t want that her parents spent a lot of money.
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
Because he could stop taking the clases that dindt interest him and he could begin dropped in on the ones that looked interesting.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
-He had to sleeped in friends room
-He would walk 7 miles every Sunday
-He selled the coke bottles for 5 cents to buy food
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
When they were designing the first macintosh computer he designed the founts in that computer and was the first computer with beautiful typography.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
Was imposible connect the dots looking forward when he was in college
Second story: Love and Loss
How old was he when he started Apple?
He was 20 years old when he started Apple
Why was he fired from his own company?
Because they have different opinion about the company
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He created 2 new companies
What did he say about work?
We need to do what make us happy and what we love
What did he think of death?
Death is the best invention of the life. Its lifes change agent
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ResponderEliminar-He never get graduated from college
-He was the Chief Executive Officer of apple and Pixar animation
-The speech is about three stories of his life
2.
First story
- She put him on adoption because she wasn´t able to raise a boy
- A couple in which the mother didn´t get graduated from the college and neither the father from the high school, but they promised that the boy would go to college.
- He chose a really expensive college, so all his parents’ savings were designated to pay it; also he didn’t know what was what he wanted to do with his life, so their savings were being wasted.
-Because he stopped to take the required classes that weren´t interests him and start to dropping in on only the ones that looked interesting.
- He returned coke bottles to buy food, slept on the floor of his friends´ rooms
-Because of the calligraphy class he can designed the first computer with beautiful typography using all that he have learned once.
-What he wanted to say was that maybe in the present you don´t understand for what the things happen, but in the future everything will be clear.
Second story
-He was 20 years old.
-Because he and his coworker started to have different ideas, so the director decided to fired him out and continue with the other guy.
- At the beginning he was really devastating, but it pushes him into the most creative periods of his life and creates the companies of NeXT and Pixar that were really successful.
-Work is a large part of the life, so we have to love what we do for being satisfied, and for this we must think that what we are doing is a great work, and for make a great work we have to love what we do.
Third story
-Death is the most wonderful invents of life, it make us change, when we think about it or we are closer to it we start changing the way we waste our time and to appreciate the life and what we can do.
1He doesn’t complete the college education.
ResponderEliminar2He was founder of Pixar animation and apple, ceo
3The speech it was on 3 histories
First story
1. She wanted a good education for Steve and a good future
2. The married but … Her mother had never graduated from college and her father never graduated from high school
3. He don't liked the methodology because he didn't see the value in it
4. Because they attended the classes he liked and helped in creating their designs
5. He had to sleep in the floor in the rooms of friends and changed cans of Coke for 5 cents to eat
6. Because this will help in developing your computer
Second story
1. He was 20 years
2. There was discord with his partner, they didn´t share their point of view, their vision.
3. because of disagreements about the future of the company with his partner
4. He did not give up and created two new companies
Third story
He said live each day as if it were the last
1. Steve Jobs don’t complete the college
ResponderEliminar2. The manager of apple and Pixar animation
3. His speech was about three stories from his live
Firs story
1. She wanted that he was adopted by a college graduates
2. At the end he was adopted by a girl that don’t finish a college and a man that don’t complete the high school
3. when he started in the reed college, he felt that he was wasting the money that his parents there was keep all the live and he wasn’t being happy, then he decided drop out of the college and take other class in this
4.He said that this was the best decision that he took in his life because he wasn’t doing the things that he wanted and then of the six months when he drop out of the college, he took a course about calligraphy, that in the future he need of this.
5.He slept in the room of his friends and returned coke bottles to buy food
6.In the future, when he and others friends invented the Macintosh, It was the first computer with beautiful typography, thanks to the course of calligraphy that he had in the college.
7.He wanted to say that all the thing that we make, in the future this going to be connecting
Second story
1.He was twenty years old
2.when apple grew , they hired someone that Jobs thought that can run the company with he, and in the first year the things went well, but then their opinions about the future of the company began to diverge and they have a discussion, and the board of directors side with he (The employ).
3.He was any months without know what to do, and then, he decided to create the company Pixar and NeXT.
4. We should work in the things that we love to can be satisfice of this.
Third story
-He said that he read that “if you life each day as it was the last, any day it was be true”, and he asked himself “if today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am to do today?” and when the answer has been not, he knew that need to change anything
Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
ResponderEliminarHe never completed his college education.
What was his occupation?
He was the chief executive officer of Apple and Pixar Animation.
He said his speech was about…
Three stories from his life.
First story: Connecting dots.
What did his biological mother want for him?
His biological mother wanted to put him up for adoption by college graduates.
Who ended up adopting him?
He was adopted by a woman and man that had never graduated from college and high school.
What happened when he started college?
He had no idea what he wanted to do with his life, he had no idea how college was going to help him figure it out. All the money his parents had saved their entire life was spending at Stanford.
Steve jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
He said it was the best decision because he could stop taking classes that didn’t interest him.
What did he have to do when he was in College?
Steve slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, he returned coke bottles to buy food and he walked the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
He learned about what makes great typography that held him designed the first computer with multiple beautiful typefaces or spaced fonts.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
He wanted to say, there are good things that we do in the life that we don’t know when they are useful, but there are moments which we can only connect them looking backwards and connect in our future.
Second story: Love and loss.
How old was he when he started Apple?
He started Apple when he was 20 years old.
Why was he fired from his own company?
He was fired because the visions of the future with his associate diverged and then they had a falling out. When they did, the board of director sided with him.
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He decided to start over and freed him to enter one of the most creative periods of his life. He started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fall in love with a woman who became his wife.
What did he say about work?
He said that the work is going to fill a large part of the life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what we believe is great work. The only way to do great work is to love what we do.
Third story: Death
What did he think of death?
Death is very likely the single best invention of life that help us live like there is no tomorrow. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
First story: Connecting dots
ResponderEliminarWhat did his biological mother want for him?
His biological mother put in adoption because she want that he live with graduated people from university
Who ended up adopting him?
By a layer and his wife
What happened when he started college?
When he started the collage he wasn´t sure what he want to study
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
Because he followed look for his likes, and 10 years later when he have learned about typography he made the first computer with the best typography.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
He had to sleep in the floor in the room of his partners because he didn´t have a room for him, he walked a lot of distance for eat nice food.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
This class was really important for him because there he learned a lot of things about the typography and he could create the first mac with a excellent typography.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
He said you can connects the dots looking backwards and follow his hearth.
Second story
1. He was 20 years when he started with apple
2. Because there was a discord with his partner
3. He began to work in the Next company and pixar and there he met his future wife
4. He said you should to do that you love because this is your happiness .
Third story
1. The dead is the best invention of the life this change our life, we don´t know what is the last day.
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ResponderEliminar- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education? He never graduated from college
ResponderEliminar- What was his occupation? He was the CEO of Apple and Pixar.
- He said his speech was about... His speech was about three stories from his live
First story: Connecting dots
-What did his biological mother want for him? His biological mom want to be adopted by college graduates
-Who ended up adopting him? The couple that weren’t college graduates. His mother had never graduated from college and his father had never graduated from high school.
-What happened when he started college? He couldn’t see the value in it, he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. So he decided to drop out.
-Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made? Because he stop taking the clases that didn’t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
-What did he have to do when he was in college? He slept on the floor in friend’s rooms, he returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food and he walked the 7 miles acroos town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the temple
-How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career? When he were designing the firt Macintosh computer it all came back to him and he included into the Mac.
-What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots? We can’t connect the dots looking forwards, but we can connect them looking backwards. So we have to trust that the dots will connnect when we give the confidence to follow our heart.
Second story: Love and Loss
-How old was he when he started Apple? He started apple when he was 20 year old.
-Why was he fired from his own company? He hired someone to help him, for the first years this worked perfect, later they had some disagreements about their visions of the future and the directors were supporting his “friend”, so he get fired
-What did he do after being fired from Apple? He started all again, he created two more companies, Next and Pixar (now the most succesful computer animation studio)
-What did he say about work? He said that the only way to be satisfied is if we love what we do.
Third story: Death
What did he think of death? Every day he looked at the mirror and asked himself, if today was the last day of my life do I want to do? If the answer was no, this mean that he was in the wrong way. Thinking about death was the best tool to follow his heart.
LISTENING EXERCISE
ResponderEliminar1. FIRST PART
- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
R/= He never graduated from college.
- What was his occupation?
R/=He was the Apple and Pixar CEO( Chief Executive Officer).
- He said his speech was about...
R/=Just three stories of his life.
2.SECOND STORY
First story: Connecting dots
-What did his biological mother want for him?
R/=She wants for him that he was adopted by professional parents.
-Who ended up adopting him?
R/=He was adopted by working class parents who never finished the high school and college.
-What happened when he started college?
R/=He didn't knew that he wanted to do with his life and he had no idea how college going to help him, so he decided dropped out the college.
-Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
R/= Because he could take some courses that he believed more interested.
-What did he have to do when he was in college?
R/=He slept on the floor in the rooms of his friends and changed cans and bottles for 5 cents to eat.
-How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
R/=when he created the Macintosh, he implemented the knoeledge learned in calligraphy and the Macintosh became in the personal computer with the better calligraphy in the world.
-What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
R/=He wanted to say that we can't connect the dots looking forwards, but we can connet the dots looking backwards and we should follow our instintc and listen to our hearts.
Second story: Love and Loss
-How old was he when he started Apple?
R/= He was 20 years old when he started Apple.
-Why was he fired from his own company?
R/=Because the vision of the future that he has was different to his "friend" and manager and they began to diverge, so he get fired.
-What did he do after being fired from Apple?
R/=He started two news companies named Pixar and NeXT and he fell in love with a woman who became in his wife.
-What did he say about work?
R/=we should love what we do.
Third story: Death
-What did he think of death?
R/=The death for him is the most important tool to take a good decisions.
Listening Exercise
ResponderEliminara- He never graduated from college, he left Reed College after the first six months
b- he is the CEO of Apple and Pixar Animation companies
c- in his speech he spoke the three stories:
The first story
1. talks about his biological mother who gave him up for adoption and she wanted that new parents of their child were professionals that have better opportunities
2. Any planned to adopt him a lawyer and his wife but at the end failed and possible new family that wanted to adopt the child was not expected that the biological mother
3. He began his college education at an expensive college, where he was spending all the savings of their parents in their education and after six months he could not find any value, he did not know what to do with his life and not He knows how college was going to help discover
4. when they left college, he could stop going to classes that did not interest and go to classes if he was interested, but he did not have room and therefore had to sleep on the floor the room of his friends
5. He could satisfy his curiosity in classes such as calligraphy, I take those lessons and learned about serif and san serif typeface on the variation of space between different letter combinations.
6. 10 years later when he was designing the first Macintosh computer, I return to what they learned in calligraphy and applied in its creation, generating a computer with a wonderful typography, with different types of font or proportionally spaced fonts
7. It refers to the connection point, where indicated, that can not connect the dots looking forward, only connect them looking backwards and therefore must have confidence that somehow points in our lives are to be connected in the future
The second story
1. Woz and Stive Jobs started Apple in his parents' garage when Stive was 20 years old
2. After generating his best creation, the Macintosh, he was fired from the company he founded, because Stive began to have conflicts with your employee, with whom had different visions of the future and at age 30 was outside of his company
3. Home again, and began one of the most creative periods of his life, where started a company named NeXT and another company named Pixar, and fell in love with the woman who would become his wife
4. Taking into account their experience, he says that sometimes life brings difficult situations, but to the difficulties should not lose hope and always must try to do what you love to do.
The third story, death
talks about life is short and we must seize it, do not waste it living the life of someone else, do not let the noise of others' opinions off ours, and most importantly you have to be brave because when we are close to death, we realize what is truly important and fight for what you want
1. He never graduated from college
ResponderEliminar2. He was the apple and pixar CEO
3. The speech was about three stories of his life.
First story
1. His biological mom wanted that a graduated couple adopted him, someone like a lawyer and his wife.
2. His biological mom found up, that the adopted family wasn’t what she expected. The mom didn’t graduate from college and the father didn’t graduate from high school.
3. He started studying in a college where he was spending all of his parents savings, but he didn’t find any value to his life.
4. He could stopped taking the required clases that didn’t seem useful for him, and begin the ones that were more interesting for him.
5. He didn’t have a room, so he slept in the floor of his friend’s rooms; he also returned bottles for a 5cent deposit to buy food with this, and every Sunday night he walked 7 miles to get one good meal at a temple.
6. Later on this class helped him to make that the Macintosh had multiple typography.
7. We can’t connect the dots looking forwards, but we can connect them looking backwards, so we have to trust that the dots will connect somehow and this will give us the confidence to follow our heart.
Second story
1. He started apple in his parents garage when he was 20.
2. He hired someone to run the company with him, and for the first years this worked perfect, but then their visions started to diverge, and the directors were supporting his "friend", so he get fired.
3. He started all over again, in this process he created two more companies, Next, and Pixar
4. Work will fill a large part of our life and the only way to be truly satisfied is if we love what we do.
Third story
1. Every single day he looked at the mirror and asked himself, if today was the last day of my life do I want to do, what I’m about to do? If the answer was no, this mean that he was in the wrong way. Thinking about death was the best tool to follow his heart.
DANA VIDALES
ResponderEliminar- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
He didn’t complete the university studies
- What was his occupation?
He was the CEO of Apple and Pixar Animation, also a great entrepreneur
- He said his speech was about...
His speech was about three histories of his life:
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
His biological mother wanted for him university education, giving him in adoption to college graduates.
Who ended up adopting him?
A couple of non-graduates adopting him.
What happened when he started college?
He was very confused, he didn’t know what to do with his life, at the end he decided abandoned the university.
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
Because after unsubscribe, he decided to focus in the classes that truly interested.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
He used to sleep on the floor of his friends rooms, because he didn’t have a one, he returned coke bottles for money to eat and he walked 7 miles across the town every Sunday night to get one good meal at the Hare Krishna temple.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
He designed a different and elegant typography for the first Macintosh computer, remembered his calligraphy class.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
That means that the past experiences, get connected in the present.
Second story: Love and Loss
How old was he when he started Apple?
He was twenty years old when started Apple in his garage.
Why was he fired from his own company?
He was fired because his allied had a different vision for the future of company and the board of directors decided support the ideas of
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
He funded Next and Pixar companies after being lost for a while. He considered that moment as the most creative in his life.
What did he say about work?
He says: you have to love your job, as much as your loved ones.
Third story: Death
What did he think of death?
He thought: Death is the best invention of life, allowing a step toward new things.
1. Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
ResponderEliminar¿Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
- He didn't graduate from college
¿What was his occupation?
- He it was the Chief Executive Officer of company’s apple and Pixar animation
¿He said his speech was about...?
- he, spoken of three stories of his life
2.First story
What did his biological mother want for him?
- His mom, don’t had the economic for take care of he , so she’s decided to put him out to adoption
Who ended up adopting him?
- He was adopted by parents who not finished the college and high school
What happened when he started college?
- his parents payed the college, with savings they had, but he not had idea what I wanted to do.
What did he have to do when he was in college?
-he had to sleep on the floor the classmate’s rooms. for he had to walk long time, and sells bottles why, he had to eat something of good food.
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
- he think with the most important is innovation with the Macintosh is the personal computer with de better calligraphy in the world.
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting dots?
-The innovation of the present, the persistence work, is the promise of the future.
3. Second story
How old was he when he started Apple?
-he started develop apple, when he had 20 years old
Why was he fired from his own company?
- he was fired from his own company, for he sold your prototype to macintosh to other director, and he fired for innovation and think more on the clients.
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
- He did not lose hope, creates 2 companies, Pixar animations and Next.
What did he say about work?
- said that we should do what we like.
4.Third story
What did he think of death?
- Think about death was the best tool to follow his heart.