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Inventors and inventions

Inventors and inventions

Inventors and inventions
1. Let's get acquainted
1. Let's get acquainted
  • What's you name?

  • How old are you?

  • Where are you from?

  • What's your favorite school subject?

  • Do you like IT (information technologies)? Are you interested in computers, gadgets?

 

What's you name? How old are you? Where are you...
2. Let's watch a video
2. Let's watch a video
Welcome To The Future ( Samsung ) HD
Welcome To The Future ( Samsung ) HD
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3. Let’s revise some words
3. Let’s revise some words
4. A quiz
4. A quiz
5. Let’s read a text and answer the questions
5. Let’s read a text and answer the questions

 

Steve Jobs

 

Steve Paul Jobs was born in California, on February 22, 1955. He was adopted when he was a baby and grew up with his new family in Northern California.

After high school Jobs went to a college in Oregon, but he left it after the first semester to travel to India. When he came back to California he learned that his high-school friend Steve Wozniak built computers as a hobby. In 1976 Jobs and Wozniak started AppleComputers. They worked in Jobs' garage.

Jobs and his team invented the Macintosh computer. It wasn't very popular at first, and Jobs left the company in 1985.

In 1986 Jobs bought Pixar Animation Studios. It produced famous movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo. They made a lot of money.

Then Apple asked Jobs to come back and become its leader. Steve Jobs helped the company release such devices as the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone. In 2011 Apple was the richest company in the world.

  Steve Jobs   Steve Paul Jobs was born in...
  1. Where is Steve Jobs from?

  2. Why did he leave the college?

  3. What did Jobs and his friend do in 1976?

  4. Where did they work at first?

  5. Did Steve Jobs always work for Apple?

Where is Steve Jobs from? Why did he leave the...
6. Let’s watch a video and discuss the questions
6. Let’s watch a video and discuss the questions
Introducing Levi Strauss & Co. Project F.L.X.
Introducing Levi Strauss & Co. Project F.L.X.
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  • What invention is in the video?

  • Who made the first jeans?

  • Do you often use this invention?

What invention is in the video? Who made the first...
7. a quiz
7. a quiz

1) Where was Levi Strauss born?

 

Austria

Germany

Poland

 

2) Where did he move and live?

 

France

England

the USA

 

3) Where did Levi Strauss work at first?

 

in a clothes shop

in a factory

in the cafe

 

4) Who did Levi Strauss work there with?

 

his mother

his father

his brother

 

5) Where does the word "denim" come from?

 

France

Germany

the USA

 

6) Who wore jeans at first?

 

policemen

working people

farmers

 

7) When did jeans become popular?

 

In the 1950s

in the 1960s

in the 1970s

 

1) Where was Levi Strauss born?   Austria Germany Poland...

correct answers

 

  1. Germany

  2. the USA

  3. in a clothes shop

  4. his brother

  5. France

  6. working people

  7. in the 1960s

correct answers   Germany the USA in a clothes shop...
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