With your partner, put the words back into the correct order.
ANSWERS
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
SPELLING
SCRAMBLED SENTENCES
With your partner, put the words back into the correct order.
VI. Checking up of home task:
Finding interesting fact:
1. Who’s the most spammed person in the world? You got it – Bill Gates! He reportedly receives more than 4 million emails every day.
2. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest charity in the world. To maintain its legal status as a charity, it must donate at least 5% of its assets each year. This means that it donates more than 1.5 billion each year!
3. Bill Gates often bragged to his school teachers that he was definitely going to be a millionaire by the time he turned 30, who only laughed at him and passed him of as a child, however, not only did he keep his word but he was a billionaire by 31.
4. Paul Allen and bill gates together found Microsoft at the age of 20, when they had not even graduated from college.
5. Bill Gates says: “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job… Because, he will find an easy way to do it”
6. When Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
7. The city of Munich chose to migrate their administration from Windows to Linux around 10 years ago, so Bill Gates personally paid a visit to ask for their reasons. The mayor replied “Freedom from you, Mr. Gates.”
8. Bill Gates wrote a letter to Steve Jobs when he was dying, who kept it beside his bed.
9. At age 21 Bill Gates was arrested for speeding in his Porsche 911 and he immediately posted bail from his wallet full of cash. He also has a huge grin on his face in his mug shot.
10. Bill Gates has saved over five million lives by “bringing vaccines and improved healthcare to children internationally”.
11. Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood from the Queen, but due to his American Citizenship, he cannot use the title “Sir”
12. In 1998, Bill Gates earned $1 million per hour (and almost $300 per second).
13. In 1997, Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into investing $150 million into Apple stocks, because he believed Apple would go under if Microsoft didn’t have “a stake in our success”.
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14. When guests enter Bill Gates’ house they are made to wear pins that upon entering a room automatically adjust temperature, music, and lighting based on the guests’ preferences
15. Bill Gates has patented a weather controlling machine
16. At the beginning of his career - a hacker
17. When the Bill was only a 13 years old, he decided to break into the school computer, but without the help of friends has not done. Then the boy was not punished, and even invited to work in one of the computer centers of Seattle, to check the "holes" in the programs.
18. Parents are banned from the computer for a whole year
19. Some time passed, and little Billy away access to a computer, and even forbidden to approach it. Then the parents even called PK "machine of the devil." Bill did not despair - he continued to read books about great men, and their success stories. Later, it helped.
20. Surprising results of the exam. In 1973 he graduated from high school. He decided to continue his studies at Harvard. Bill Gates perfectly passed all the exams. He eventually scored 1590 points out of 1600 possible.
21. Bill said that he would be a millionaire. The institute their teachers, he insisted that in 30 years will become a millionaire. Professor says that Bill can be a good programmer, but a terrible person.
22. It is believed that Bill Gates became a billionaire at age 31. Because of the random study, in 1974, the future head of Microsoft was in a hospital bed and study stopped.
23. The most successful. Bill Gates is the most successful man who graduated from Harvard. But Bill in a year yet finished it - but it was a formality.
24. Steve and Bill are friends. They even went together to see their girls. There is a version that old friends began to compete because one girl envied the other. Like it or not - is unknown.
25. Bill has built a huge mansion. The mansion called Xanadu 2.0. It was built as much as 7 years. Interestingly, only the entire area 24 toilets and 23 garages, a large kitchen area of 1000 feet. Why Bill a "lock" is also unknown.
26. Head of Microsoft does not take the tube. He never does it, especially in the workplace, no matter who he is calling.
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VII. Extra-work:
These are some facts about Bill Gates that you have found. And some facts have been sent to me by somebody that I don’t know myself. I don’t know about the source of this information but nowadays Windows users are sending this interesting information to each other through emails so there must be some truth in it.
1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won’t even bother to pick it up because during the 4 seconds he picks it, he would’ve already earned it back.
3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion dollars, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself, he will finish it in less then 10 years.
4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$ 5 Million for his pocket money.
5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
7. If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
Conclusion.
Imagine you are Bill Gates and have five million dollars to give to a beneficial philanthropic cause. How would you decide where to spend the money? How would you determine whether or not the cause was worthwhile? Begin the sentence with, “ If I were Bill Gates I would...” Write at least a sentences on this topic.
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