jueves, 6 de octubre de 2011

Three stories from my life

This video clip is a summary of Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.
The latest news of his death today  makes it really up-to-date.

Self-study activity:
Watch the video and answer these questions:

1 Who was Steve's biological mother?
2 What's the second story about?
3 How many people started Apple?
4 What happened to Steve at 30?
5 When did he meet his wife?
6 What's the third story about?
7 Who wants to die?
8 How does Steve define death?
9 Which two things are important for us to have the courage to follow?




You can read the transcript here.

Key:
1 a young college graduate student 2 about love and loss 3 two 4 he was fired from Apple 5 after he had been fired from Apple and before returning to the company 6 death 7 nobody 8 death is the best invention of life 9 our heart and intuition