Listening exercise 2- Unit 6

Key figures Reasons for choice

Student A Steve Jobs - Create the computer for
apple in 1984
- He has many achievements
making apple become the biggest
company in the world
- Bringing computer icons and
the mouse to a greater public
- the transformation of
computers from business machine
to a machine for the wider public
as his main legacy
Student B Alan Turing - The father of modern computing
- Creating a machine which was
set up to read and write the
numbers and do the simple
functions
- There were no computers before
then so this was a very
important first step in the world
- He had a test named after him
which measures artificial
intelligence and is still widely
used today
- He developed the first computer
. It was the size of a room and
today’s tablets can fit in your
pocket
Student C Tim Berners Lee - The inventor of the internet ,
inventing the World Wide
Web has got to be the best
- He is credited also with
building the first web
browser, creating the first
web server

A citation that uses a passive construction

Apple/ Steve Jobs It’s been argued that apple and Steve Jobs
 were responsible for bringing computer
icons and the mouse to a greater public
Alan Turing Turing is considered the father of modern
computing
Tim Berners Lee Berners Lee is credited also with building
the first web browser, creating the first
web server