Universidad Santiago de Cali Workshop # 3

Language Institute Topic: Biograghies

Level: 2 Laboratory practice

Workshop # 3 – Biographies

Objective: In this workshop you will read and listen to the biography of a famous person. You will also
practice how to take notes while you are listening and make a short oral report.
Instructions:

 Follow this workshop step by step.

 Complete all the activities.
 Use the dictionary if necessary. http://www.wordreference.com/es/
 Ask the monitor when you don’t understand a point in the workshop.

1) First, look at the picture and write all the information that you know about this famous person.

What do you know about Steve Jobs?

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Language Institute Topic: Biograghies
Level: 2 Laboratory practice

2) Second, go to the next link and listen to the biography of Steve Jobs. Take notes of what you listen.
http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/s/steve_jobs.mp3

Listening tip!
It is very important to take notes
while you listen. Listen to the audio
and make a list of all the words that
you understand. Then, put those
words together and try to write
ideas in sentences with the most
important information of the audio.

Write your notes here:

List of words that you can understand from the Sentences with the most important
audio information of the audio

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Language Institute Topic: Biograghies
Level: 2 Laboratory practice

4) Listen again to the biography of Steve Jobs and number these lines in the correct order.
http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/s/steve_jobs.mp3

( ) edge products made Apple a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed
considerable
( ) Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a
teenager and attended lectures
( ) advice for success is: “You’ve got to find what you love." He died in October 2011, aged 56.
( ) enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari, where he met Apple co-
founder Steve Wozniak.
( ) success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. Jobs’
( ) built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created. He developed a passion
( ) iPad. He was a much-respected corporate leader whose management style is studied
( ) Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and
sell it. Together,
( ) for style and functional perfection, which became Apple trademarks.
( ) Jobs guided Apple to be a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac
and other cutting-
( ) worldwide. His attention to design, function and style has won him millions of fans.
( ) they developed the Mac. It was the first small computer with a user-friendly interface to be
commercially successful. Jobs also
( ) after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician at the video game maker
Atari. He saved
(1) Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation
Studios. He was the largest
( ) individual shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs’ name is associated with innovative products like
the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and

4) Match the words from the article on the left with their synonyms on the right.
Paragraphs 1 and 2

1. CEO a. Followers
2 Individual b. Chief Executive Officer
3. Fans c. went to
4. attended d. went back
5. backpack e. Single
6. returned f. travel

Paragraphs 3 and 4

7. persuaded g. innovative
8. passion h. characteristics
9. trademarks i. love
10. major j. lots of
11 cutting-edge k big
12 considerable l convinced
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Language Institute Topic: Biograghies
Level: 2 Laboratory practice

5) Now read the complete biography of Steve Jobs and highlight all the regular and irregular verbs in
simple past.
Jobs guided Apple to be a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of
the iMac and other cutting-edge products made Apple a powerful brand with a
loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-
winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. Jobs’ advice for success is:
“You’ve got to find what you love." He died in October 2011, aged 56.
Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He
was the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs’ name is associated with innovative
products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. He was a much-respected corporate leader whose
management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style won him millions
of fans.
Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager
and attended lectures after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician at the
video game maker Atari. He saved enough money to backpack around India and then returned to
Atari, where he met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it.
Together, they developed the Mac. 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. He
developed a passion for style and functional perfection, which became Apple trademarks.
Sources: http://www.wikipedia.org/ and assorted biographies.

 Put the verbs in the correct column

Regular verbs Irregular verbs
enjoyed Made
created

6) Watch the next video about Steve Jobs and take notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO3Gstc8nUw

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Language Institute Topic: Biograghies
Level: 2 Laboratory practice

Write your notes here:

List of words that you can understand from the Sentences with the most important
audio information of the audio

7) Finally, make a short oral report about the life of Steve Jobs.
Instructions:
a. Go to: http://vocaroo.com/
b. Click on “click to record”
c. Click on the green icon “permitir”
d. Start recording and, when you finish, click on “click to stop”
e. Click on “listen” to check what you did. If you need to repeat, click on “retry”
f. Click on “click here to save” and send it to the monitor’s mail.