CLIL Ee Dot-com companies Silicon Valley is south of San Francisco. Its home to many large technology ‘companies such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard and also many dot-com companies. These are companies lke Google, Facebook and eBay which Operate mainly over the internet. But where did the dot-com company come from? In 1985, the World Wide Web was first introduced to the world. A company talled Symbolics became the frst company to register its address, or URL. on 4 , the web. Today, there are 200 million websites in existence, and one domain is eau fecjstered every three minutes in the UK alone. But it took a long time for the sas jeret to become the phenomenon its todoy. wes when SicTim Berner. Uy Hee put up the first website in 1990 (info.cern.ch), that the intemet took off. During the 1990s, there was a dot-com boom. Many people became rich becouse of the World Wide Web. In 1998, PhD ludents Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented Google. These days, this search engine is the world’s most recognizable and and, in 2011, it was valued at $192 billion, Read and listen. Answer the questions. How do you say the following in your language? 1@ 2wwa. 3 com 4 co.uk Eg workbook cuit activities page 97Rita and Paul are 13 years old and they’re tal 1g about their future. Listen and complete their ambitions with a phrase in the box. bigcar dentist DJ get married at 21 India the world Rita Paul 1 Vilwork asa... 4 Illbea... 2 | think I'll work in... 5 Vil buya... 3 One day I'Iltravel... 6 I'll... EA Listen to Rita and Paul aged 29. How many of their ambitions came true? Listen again and answer the questions. What did Rita study at university? Which country does Rita frequently travel to? What is she going to do next year? What is Paul’s job? How many children has Paul got? ubWnNna