Steve Jobs

Famous People

Steve
Jobs
Pre-Reading
A. Warm-Up Questions

1. Who is the person in the picture?

2. What country is this person from?

3. Why is this person famous?

B. Vocabulary Preview

Match the words on the left with the correct meanings on the right.

1. adopt (verb) a)  doing well in business, finance, or another field

2. garage (noun) b)  a storage place for cars, tools, and other household equipment

3. successful (adjective) c)  the Chief Executive Officer, the leader of a company

h 4. animation (noun) d)  machinery related to science and knowledge

5. design (verb) e)  to raise a child that is not your birth child

6. CEO (noun) f)  worth a lot of money

7. valuable (adjective) g)  to develop the look and feel of something

8. technology (noun) h)  drawings that move on the screen

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Reading
ABOUT STEVE JOBS

1. Steve Jobs was born in California in 1955. He was adopted as

a baby. In school, his interests were art, history, and electronics.
In high school, Steve Jobs worked in his garage with his friend
Steve Wozniak. They built a computer together. In 1976, the
two Steves started Apple Computers.

2. Apple grew into a successful company. Another successful computer

company was IBM. IBM took a lot of Apple’s business away. In 1985,
Steve Jobs left his own company. He purchased Pixar Animation
Studios. Pixar made movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc.

3. In 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple. He became the CEO.

Jobs designed technology, including the iPhone, the iPod,
and the iPad. In 2011, Apple was the most valuable company
in the world. Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer that same year.

Writing
ABOUT ME

Finish the About Me sentences. Use your own personal information.

1. Steve Jobs was born in California. 3. Pixar made movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc.

  I was   Some movies I like are

2. S
 teve Jobs’s interests were art, 4. S
 teve Jobs designed the
history, and electronics. iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad.

  My interests are   Technology that I use includes

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Comprehension

A. Timeline

Put the timeline in the correct order.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built a computer.

Jobs left the company he started.

Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs returned to Apple and became the CEO.

Steve Jobs was adopted in California.

Steve Jobs purchased Pixar Animation.

Steve Jobs became interested in art and electronics.

The two Steves started a computer company.

B. Forming Questions

Work with a partner. Here are the answers. What are the questions?

1. 3.

  Steve Jobs was born in California.   Pixar Animation Studios is a

company that makes movies.

2. 4.

  Steve Wozniak was Steve Jobs’s first partner.   Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer.

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Vocabulary Review
Circle the best word to complete each sentence.

1. W
 e store the bikes 3. T
 he head of the 5. M
 y brother has a
and tools in the... company is the... great job. He is very...

a) garbage a) COE a) success

b) garage b) CEO b) successful
c) carriage c) CEA c) succeed

2. Apple products have a nice... 4. I don’t know my 6. Be careful. This necklace is...
birth mother. I was...
a) design a) value
b) company a) divorced b) evaluation
c) electronic b) born c) valuable
c) adopted

How to Be Successful
As a young schoolboy, Steve Jobs loved art, history, and
electronics. He followed his interests and became a successful
designer in the field of computers and technology.

What were your interests in kindergarten? Ask some

of your classmates about their childhood interests.

Classmate Interests

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Listening
A. Gap Fill

Listen to a recording of this reading.

Fill in the gaps. Listen again and check your answers.

(Audio: http://blog.esllibrary.com/2015/05/13/podcast-steve-jobs-beg)

1. S
 teve Jobs was born in   in 1955.
He was adopted as a   . In school, his interests
were   , history, and electronics. In high school,
Steve Jobs worked in his garage with his friend Steve
Wozniak. They   a computer together.
In 1976, the two Steves started Apple Computers.

2. Apple   into a successful company. Another

successful computer company was IBM. IBM took a lot
of Apple’s   away. In 1985, Steve Jobs left
his own company. He purchased Pixar Animation studios.
Pixar made   like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc.

3. In 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple. He   the CEO.

Jobs designed technology, including the iPhone, the iPod, and
the iPad. In 2011, Apple was the most valuable company in the
world. Steve Jobs   of pancreatic cancer that same year.

B. Extra Practice

Do you want more listening practice? After you fill in the gaps in Part A,
listen to the recording a few more times. Write down all of the company
names that you hear. Don’t forget that the name of a company or business
is a proper noun. Be sure to use capital letters properly.

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Answer Key
LESSON DESCRIPTION: LEVEL: Beginner

In this lesson, students read a short biography about Steve Jobs. TIME: 1.5–2 hours
They practice writing questions and statements. They also think
TAGS:  Steve Jobs, Apple, computers,
back to their interests as kindergarteners.
technology, success, business, work

Pre-Reading B. FORMING QUESTIONS

Answers may vary. Help your students form questions.

A. WARM-UP QUESTIONS
1. Where was Steve Jobs born?
1. This is Steve Jobs. 2. Who is Steve Wozniak?
2. He is from the US. He is American. He is from California. 3. What is Pixar Animation Studios?
3. He is famous for being the founder of Apple. 4. How did Steve Jobs die? What did Steve Jobs die of/from?

B. VOCABULARY PREVIEW
Vocabulary Review
1. e 3. a 5. g 7. f
2. b 4. h 6. c 8. d 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. b 6. c

Reading How to Be Successful

Read the text with your students, or have them read silently. Many career experts say that children’s kindergarten interests
Ask students to underline words that they aren’t familiar with. are related to their true purpose in life! Have your students survey
each other about their childhood interests. Talk about which
Writing interests lead to which jobs.

Help your students form proper sentences. Listening

Encourage them to use a capital letter to start a proper noun.
A. GAP FILL

Comprehension Play the audio recording or assign this gap-fill task for homework.

A. TIMELINE 1. California, baby, art, built

2. grew, business, movies
3 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built a computer.
3. became, died
5 Jobs left the company he started.
8 Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer.
B. EXTR A PR ACTICE
7 Steve Jobs returned to Apple and became the CEO.
1 Steve Jobs was adopted in California. 1. Apple Computers

6 Steve Jobs purchased Pixar Animation. 2. Apple, IBM, Pixar Animation Studios, Pixar

2 Steve Jobs became interested in art and electronics. 3. Apple

4 The two Steves started a computer company.

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