VIP Class Notes (Olivia)

Grammar

frequency:

usually /always/ frequently/all the time/ normally

occasionally/ never/ rarely

I always ride bikes after lunch, to the riverside.

I never play football, I’m not good at playing football.

then I will go back home and play the flute for about 30 minutes.

I sometimes go to Disneyland, because there is a lot of fun activities.

I frequently write emails to my friends, because my friends are overseas and I miss them a lot.

he normally does work on the computer because his boss is very serious about working hard.

while/when/where/who/because/after/before/due to/

– form longer sentences.

I am eating breakfast, while my cat is eating its breakfast as well.

I like to go to Disneyland, where everyone is enjoying their time there.

This is my friend William, who is a very good basketball player.

I get off work at 9pm, when I was extremely tired and hungry.

A career of ups and downs

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple computers, had major ups and downs in his career. he dropped out of college after only one semester. Yet, he started a computer company and became a millionaire when he was in his early twenties. When he was 30, his own company pushed him out.

Steve and Woz Incorporate Apple Computer

In 1971, when he was 16, Steve started a new friendship that affected his life dramatically. He met Steve Wozniak, aka “Woz”, an engineering student in college. Woz was five years older than Jobs was. Despite the age difference, they had a lot in common. They were both brilliant guys who loved building mechanical and electrical devices.

After Jobs left college, he and Woz started building computer boards together. By 1976 they had developed one that worked pretty well. They called it the Apple I. Keep in mind that, at that time, no one except a few hobbyist had smaller, homemade computers at home. Most computers were huge, bulky machines. Only wealthy businesses, universities and government institutions owned them. There was no internet.

In April 1976, with the help of a friend who knew what a corporation was, Woz and Steve incorporated Apple Computer. A store in their Northern California neighbourhood, The Byte Shop, ordered 50 Apple I boards. The store paid them $500 for each one. Steve and Woz set up a workshop in the Jobs family garage, where they built every board. Soon they began charging $666.66 for each Apple I, this is equivalent to about $2800 in today’s money.

Vocabulary

routine: something that you repeat on doing

eg: I routinely play basketball

exist

glacier

sheet of paper/sheet of something

predators

food chain

wildfire

desert/ dessert

equal / equivalent