Activity 3. Choose the correct verb form:
1) Steve did not want to spend all of the money his parents saved/had saved their entire life on his education.
2) He decided to take a calligraphy class after he dropped/had dropped out.
3) They had just released/releasedthe Macintosh before he turned/had turned 30.
4) He had got/got fired because of the differences with the man he hired/had hired for Apple.
5) He had fallen/fell in love with an amazing woman who would become/has become his wife.
6) He was pretty sure none of that would have happened if he were not/hadn't been fired from Apple.
7) He was impressed by the book which had been/was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand.
Activity 4. Use the Conditional Mood sentences combining the following facts:
1) S.Jobs took calligraphy classes – The Mac was the first computer with beautiful typography.
2) S.Jobs’ biological mother was a college grad – She insisted that the adopted parents should send him to college.
3) S.Jobs’ adopted parents were not rich – He had to quit the university.
4) He didn't have a dorm room – He slept on the floor in friends' rooms.
5) He was dismissed from Apple – He entered the most creative period of his life.
6) He found what he really loved – He achieved extraordinary success.
Activity 5. Convert the sentences into indirect speech:
1. “Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation”.
2. “This approach has never let me down, and it has made a difference in my life”.
3. “You've got to find what you love”.
4. “Death clears out the old to make way for the new”.
5. “Don't be trapped by dogma”.
6. “It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery”.
