I nterviewer How did you first Sta直 inventing?

Adrian : I conceived my勅st inven的n at 12 years old

!nterviewer : What have ypu dorre to promote your product?
Adrian  : l have choseh social media to DromOte mV DrOduct. esDeCja11v Facebook, 1 made a =st of
reIevant people that I thought would be interested jn my product or wi=ing to heIp spread
theword.
冊erviewer : How Iong has it taken什om your in軸a=dea to taking航O market?
Adrian  : lt has beeh about.1 0 months.

From the itaIie se巾ence, ¥We know that Ac冊a鵬師et started inventing when he was 12 years old,
It uses simpIe past tense because i=e=s abouI PaSt eVent Or aCtion. It means wさuse the simpIe past
to taIk abo山a past event that happened at a certain time. From the unde輔ned sentence, We know that
Adrian has chosen social media to promote his product. 1t uses present perfed tense. we use p「esent

Perfect to show that a past event happened at an unknow両me.

寸t can be concluded that vye use simpIe past tense to emphasize past effect, and we use present

perfect tense to emphasize present e情ect,

We usu訓y find informatien about past events or ac宣Mties refe而ng the [irne o=ts occurren∞
and its completion in an interview. An interview is a way to ask and give information・ in other words, an
interview is a ∞nVerSation between two or more people in which questions a「e asked by the interviewer
to elicit facts or statements from the interviewee, lnterviews are usuatry defined as a→∞nVerSation w柵
a purpose. lnterview is usefu十for in depth information. When we interview famous persons, We uSua叩y
ask for information abou=he compIeted past actions/eve巾S/experiences and those that started in the

PaSt, Therefore, We need to improve our simple past tense and present perfect tense￨

A, Read and practice the foiIowing inte丁view! Then find the meaning of the bolded words!

777e fo〃ow加g is a脆nsc/ゆt of hteMiew between Cu/伯nt Magaz血e (CM) and Mah( 2l/Cke応eIg

(MZ)タ的e c伯a請w’Of thefacebook.com h 2004,

CM : Whattime do you wake up in the morning?
MZ : That depends, There are two modes. 1 keep programmer timeここ「etimes・ When you’re
at your computer you can get distracted by other peopie, SO PrOgrammerS tend to stay
up reaIiy late and work when everyone eise in asleep. So it’s not rea=y uncommon for
me to stay up unt= 6 0r8 jn the morning. The other mode is when i have a meeting" The
business worid does not operate between 5 p,m. and 8 a.m., SO that requires some waking
up for. The two kinds of go together weil because sometimes l’m waking up at 8 a.m. and
SOmetimes l’m going to bed at 8 a.m. So i’= go for three days without sleeping, Which is
「ea=y sweet.

CM : What about breakfast?

MZ : I haven’t eaten breakfast in a iong time. The only time I eat breakfast is when l have
meetings that ea「ly in the moming. Usua=y it’s a iate lunch and then a Iate dinner and then
a second dinner at Jack in the Box,
CM : Te= me about how thefacebookgot started!
MZ : The idea for the website was motivated by a sociai need at Harvard to be abie to identify
PeOPIe in other residential houses, Whiie each residentiaI house iisted directories of thei「
residents, l wanted one o捕ne directory where ali students couid be =sted, And i’ve aiWays
enjoyed bu脚ng things and putte「ing around with computer code, SO i sat down and in
about a week l had produced the basic workings of the site.
CM : And from there you spread the website to other top schoois鵜MI丁, Yaie, Stanford.

MZ : Yeah, butthe goai was neverto be e闘St. We had a launch p[an to enter into othercolieges
based on where friends wouid be mos=ikeiy to overiap, SO the site spread organicaliy
based upon that modei and now we operate on a broad spectrum of campuses一!t doesn’t
make sense to exciude anybody or any coilege from the resources that伽efacebookoffers.
This is a product that should be fun arld useful for aII co=ege students,

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