READING

Ask and answer the questions.

1. Who's the man in the pictures?

2. What do you know about his company?

3. What do you know about his family life?

The text is called His family secret. What do you think the secret is? Talk
about the ideas and choose one.

1. His grandfather married four times.

2. He had a secret sister.

3. His father was a famous actor

4. He never met his brother.

STEVE JOB’S FAMILY SECRET

His name is famous around the world and every day millions of people use the
products he made-our phones, computers, laptops, tablets and MP3 players. We
all think we know his story from magazines, newspapers and the Internet, but how
much do we really know about him?

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. His

real parents were university students. They decided
not to keep their son and Steve was adopted by
Clara and Paul Jobs.

The Jobs family lived in Mountain View in California.

This is now in Silicon Valley, where there are a lot of
big technology companies. Steve's hobby as a child
was electronics. He made simple computers with his
father at the family home. At high school he met
Steve Wozniak. They both loved electronics and
became good friends. In 1976, they started Apple
Computers in Steve's parents' garage. They worked
hard and four years later, the company was worth $1.2 billion.

Two years after that, Steve found out about his sister for the rst time. After he was
adopted, his real parents had another child, Mona, who became a famous writer.
This amazing brother and sister were close friends until he died in 2011. People
will continue to remember Steve when they see or use an Apple product.

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Put the events from Steve Jobs' life in the correct order.

A. His sister Mona was born.

B. Steve became friends with Steve Wozniak.

C. Steve started a new hobby: electronics.

D. Steve's real parents couldn't keep him.

E. Steve met his sister.

F. Clara and Paul Jobs became Steve's parents.

G. The two Steves became very rich.

H. Apple Computers began.

Read about Becky's hobby. Complete the text with the past simple form
of the verbs in the box. Listen and check your answers.

play; buy; like; listen; have; start

When I was young my hobby was playing the piano. I only 1) _________ jazz not modern
or classical music. My parents 2) _____________ me a piano when I was eight years old
and I 3) _____________ lessons then. They 4) ____________a lot of jazz CDs and I always
5) ___________ to them. So they were happy for me to play jazz. I 6) ____________ jazz
piano all the time. I still play the piano now and jazz is still my favourite music.

Think of a hobby you had when you were a child. Make notes. Read
Becky's example in 5a to help you. Think about:

• what you did

• how your parents helped you