Unit 1: Entrepreneurs & Inventors

How your decisions can change your life?

August 18th

 Listening Exercise

Today we will be working on an interesting speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University.

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
nouns
adjectives
drop out
put out
tuition
awful
drop in
release
loss
well-worn
find out
stumble into
baton
foolish
figure out
clear out
brick

lead off
get fired
commencement

work out
quit
embarrassment

turn out
relent
subtle

screw up
spend
trap (n)

button up
settle

drown out
free (v)

look forward
look backward
trap (v)


come back
dawn on (v)


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.

Homework August 23rd: Click HERE and watch a video about how a Google intern's first week is and answer some questions.


Activity designed by Deisa Gómez and Alejandra Jiménez 


August 23rd


Do you know the name of any women inventors?
 

Why are most inventors men?




Let's know more about a woman inventor. Listen to the audio about Hedy Lamarr and place the following in chronological order:



Hedy Lamarr's Audio



_____ Hedy came up with the idea of frequency hopping.



___ Hedy fled out of a window.


___ Hedy was born in Vienna.

___ The Cuban Missile Crisis took place.

___ Lamarr married a wealthy Austrian arms dealer.

___ The co-founder of MGM offered Lamarr a job.

___ One evening Lamarr raised seven million dollars in war bonds.

___ Lamarr was inducted into the National Inventions Hall of Fame.

___ Lamarr and Antheil received a patent for their invention.

___ Wi-Fi was invented.

Check you answers HERE.
 

 If you want more about this woman, check this video:

 Hedy Lamarr's Video

 Hedy Lamarr's Video Transcription


Grammar Review

 Simple past lesson (basic)

 Simple past lesson (advanced)


 Grammar in Context Exercises

 J.K. Rowlling's Biography

Lionel Messi's profile 

 Mozart's Biography 

 Nelson Mandela's Biography

August 25th

Please read this biosketch about Evans Wadongo and fill the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in parenthesis.

Evans Wadongo (born March 11th, 1986) _______ (be) a Kenyan engineer, the Co-Founder of GreenWize Energy Ltd. He ________ (be) a graduate in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya. Evans ____________ (be) born in the Western part of Kenya. He _____________ (attend) Manyonje and Bisunu Primary Schools, rural primary schools, where he _________ (walk) over 10 kilometres  daily to reach his school. His home and school __________ (have) no electricity, but he __________ (manage) to graduate with top marks, and ____________(be) listed among the top 100 best students in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations of 2002. He later ___________( join) Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and graduated in July 2009 with a BSc (honors) in Electronics and Computer Engineering.
He ____________________ (participate) in various community initiatives, including the donation of clothes to children homes and street clean-up campaigns. In 2004, Evans ________________(design) a solar lamp which he calls ‘MwangaBora (Swahili for "Good Light") as a way to address poor education, climate change, health and poverty in rural areas in Kenya. Evans ______________(name) the entire project ‘Use Solar, Save Lives’ as he ________________ (aim) to use solar technology as a way to save lives in the poor communities he __________________(grow) up in. 
In 2006, he ___________ (found) Sustainable Development For All-Kenya (SDFA-Kenya), a non-profit organization, its primary focus is environment, education and economic empowerment. To date, SDFA-Kenya under the leadership of Mr. Wadongo _________________ (influence) directly hundreds of thousands of people and, indirectly, millions of others. In 2010, Evans __________ (be) selected one of CNN's top ten heroes of 2010.

Grammar Review

Present Perfect Grammar Exercise

Present Perfect Reading Exercise


August 30th

Grammar Review
 Read the text about Old Colonel and fill the gaps with the correc form of the verb in parenthesis.

I think I __________(have) a very interesting life. I'm 73 now and I don't work
anymore. I ______(be) in the army for 51 years. I retired when I was 69. I _________________(be) to so many countries that I can't remember all of them. I've been to Australia six or seven times and to South Africa three times. I have also been once to Russia but I __________(not like) it at all: much too cold for me!

They say that love is the greatest thing and I agree. I _____________(be married) four times but never for more than five years. I don't think women really understand me! 

I've never been on television, but I've been on the radio once. It ______________(be) a program about life in the military about twenty years ago. I ___________(meet) the Prime Minister on the same day. Actually, I've met a lot of famous people: members of the royal family, famous politicians and also famous cinema and television personalities. I ________________(meet) the American President though which is a pity.

Because I've travelled a lot, I've seen a lot of wonderful things and ________________(eat & drink) some strange foods and drinks. I _________(eat) cat and rat in India and drank something called Mirto on a little island in Italy many years ago.

Pronunciation Exercises 


1. Listen to the pronunciation of these verbs and classify them into the colum they belong to.
Homework September 1st: Read about a successful entrepreneur or an inventor's life. You can use this website to read about entrepreneurs and inventors in English: http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/
Take notes on the most important facts about that person life. Answer in your notebook: What do you need to become an entrepreneur or inventor? Why did you choose that person? Prepare yourself to give an oral report about it.
September 1st

1. Get ready to write your biosketch. Explore this website to know more about it:


2. Read some biosketch samples:

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.
3. Prepare your own biosketch draft by September 6th .

 Retrieved from: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/about.html (April, 2016)
Adapted by: Alejandra Jiménez Quintero (for educational purposes)

 September 6th

 Writing strategy: Proofreading

 Proofreading means examining your text carefully to find and correct typographical errors and mistakes in grammar, style, spelling, and punctuation. Here are some tips.

 1. Study this writing guidelines and take notes.

 Writing Workshop 

 Biosketch Peer Correction

 2. In pairs, check your classmate's biosketch by using this checklist:

 Biosketch Checklist

 3. Improve your biosketch by taking into account your classmate's suggestion and hand in your final version by September 8th.

 Extra Task

 Punctuation Marks Exercises


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