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WATCH THE MOVIE SEGMENT AND CHECK THE ACTIVITIES THE COUPLE USED TO DO DURING THE YEARS THEY LIVED TOGETHER.
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THE WAY WE WERE

Molly Hornby was a young girl in the 1960s. Read what she says about it.

“I was a young girl in the 1960s. My friends and I used to do a lot of things which shocked our parents. We used to do things our mothers never did. We cut our hair, we wore short skirts, we smoked, and went dancing. We danced to the music of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. We also got the chance to see the Beatles live at a concert once. It was amazing. My father went fishing once a week. He always wished that I would accompany him, but fishing was not my cup of tea. Instead my friends and I went for picnics in the surrounding area quite often. My boyfriend had a car, a 1960 Ford Falcon, so he always picked us up and we often drove to Brighton. We went to the pictures twice a week and I loved to watch films with Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor , especially the ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’ starring both of them. I still love to watch this film. It’s my favourite. I can remember it all so clearly.”
TRUE OR FALSE:
Read and answer what Molly Hornby used to do when she was young.

MOLLY HORNBY...

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WRITING SKILLS

Here you have a good website to improve your writing skills:

Finland's education success

When it comes to international results, Finland's schools score consistently at the top.
However, pupils study the fewest number of class hours in the developed world.
World News America travels to Helsinki to find out the secret of the Finns' education success.


After watching the video, answer the questions below.

Steve Jobs: What is Truly Important?

Let's pay tribute to STEVE JOBS by watching this video :
record your own voice and tell me how many points you get.

Stanford Commencement Speech
You can watch the speech with English subtitles here (Part 1) and  here (part 2): 
- The first story is about connecting the dots.
- The second story is about love and loss.
- The third story is about death.

After watching the speech,  try to answer the following questions:
-WHY DO YOU THINK HIS MOTHER DECIDED TO PUT HIM UP FOR ADOPTION?

- WHY DID HE DECIDE TO DROP OUT FROM COLLEGE?

-WHERE AND WHEN DID HE START WORKING WITH APPLE?
-HOW MANY EMPLOYEES DID APLE GET TO HAVE IN JUST TEN YEARS?
-WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS 30?
-DID THAT MAKE HIM ANY GOOD? WHY? 
-WHY DID HE RETURN TO APPLE?
-WHAT KEPT HIM GOING WHEN THINGS GOT ROUGH?
-HOW DID KNOWING HE WAS GOING TO DIE HELP HIM?
Check your answers here

Now, have a look at  the first “Think Different” Apple commercial, narrated by Steve Jobs: "Here's to the Crazy Ones".

• There are 17 "great people" in the commercial. How many can you recognize?

 "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square  holes, the ones who see things differently. They are not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things, they push the human race forward. 

While some may have seen them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

Finally, you can watch this presentation which puts an end to our particular tribute to Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs

View more presentations from Chelo Parra.
Make the questions for the following answers:

1. February 24th, 1955 in S. Francisco
2. In the Silicon Valley
3. He attended Reed College but dropped out after one semester.
4. On April 1st, 1976
5. 666,66$
6. He created Next Cube PC and bought Pixar.
7. In 1996.
8. ipod, iphone, ipad...
9. On March 18th, 1991.
10. Laurene Powell.
11. Three.

Create your Voki

You are going to create a VOKI which will identify you along this year. Have a look to the following slide presentation, folllow the instructions and...CREATE YOUR VOKI!!

When you have finished, send me the link and we'll publish it in our wiki. Ready, steady, GO!

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