Venture 2 Great Lives Video worksheet Steve Jobs Getting started 3 VIDEO Watch again. Are these statements True or False? Correct the false ones. P How often do you use these devices, 1 Jobs left his college course early and got a job and what do you use them for? with computers. • a computer 2 The first Apple computers cost $200. • a tablet 3 Jobs left Apple but returned to it later. • an MP3 player 4 He developed some computers that weren’t Competences • a smartphone very popular with customers. 5 Pixar was successful before 1995. Check 6 The first iPhone appeared in 2011. 7 Jobs was 66 when he died. 1 VIDEO Watch the video and choose the correct answer. 1 In 1976 Steve Jobs… Language check A got a job with the Apple Computer Company. 4 Complete these sentences with the correct B went to work at a garage. relative pronoun: who, whose, which or where. 1 Steve Jobs, has been called the father of C started the Apple Computer Company at his the digital revolution, was born in 1955. parents’ home. 2 Cupertino, Jobs grew up, is now the D sold Apple-1 computers for thousands of location of the Apple company’s headquarters. dollars. 3 Steve Wozniak, helped to start the Apple 2 Pixar … when Jobs bought it in 1986. company, first met Jobs when they were 16. A was a successful animation company 4 Apple-1 computers, are very rare these B was a successful computer company days, can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. C wasn’t a very successful company 5 Jobs left Apple and started the NeXT computer D was famous for the film Toy Story company, wasn’t very successful. 6 Jobs, products are used by millions of 3 Steve Jobs changed people’s work and free time people every day, died in 2011. because … A he developed interesting and useful electronic Discussion 21st-century skills products. B he invested in the first computer. 5 In pairs. Discuss your predictions about C he invented the first mobile phone. technology. Talk about these questions. • How will technology develop in the future? D he started a big software company. • Which devices will we still use in 20 years? 2 Choose the correct alternative to complete the • Which devices will we stop using? summary. • How will technology change our homes, our Steve Jobs is famous because he created the schools and our free time? 1Microsoft/Apple brand of electronic products. He and his friend Steve Wozniak designed a computer st in the 21970s/1980s. They called it the 3iMac/ Webquest 21 -century skills 4 Apple-1. In the 1970s and 80s nobody/everybody 6 Choose one of the tasks. Research your task on wanted computers, and the Apple company the Internet and produce a three-to-five-minute 5 became very successful/old-fashioned. Jobs also presentation or film. bought Pixar, the computer animation company. 6 1 Find information about an Italian who has had Their first big success was the film Cars/Toy Story a successful career with computers or digital in 1995. Jobs helped the company to develop technology. What was their early life like? How Mac computers, the iPod and the iPhone. He did they become involved with computers? What revolutionised the world of technology for ever. companies have they worked for? What do they do now? 2 Find information about someone who was involved in the early days of computers. What was their background? Where and when did they work? Did they invent anything? How did they help to develop the modern computer? 2 Venture 2 Great Lives Video Steve Jobs © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE Venture video worksheets.indd 2 03/08/2015 11:44.