Activity 6. Discuss the text part by part:
Part 1. About connecting dots 1) Vocabulary focus. Explain the meaning of the following:
drop-out; drop-in; put sb up for adoption; relent; scary; typography; connect the dots
2) Content focus. Reread the text and, using the above vocabulary, speak about Job’s:
1) family roots, adoption conditions
2) university education
3) the dots S. Jobs has connected in this part of his speech
4) the lesson he teaches the younger generation.
Part 2. About love and loss 1) Vocabulary focus. Explain the meaning of the following: diverge; fall out; baton; screw sth up; dawn on sb; reject; renaissance.
2) Content focus. Reread the text and, using the above vocabulary, speak about Job’s:
1) invention of Macintosh
2) the loss of job with Apple, how he felt about it then and later
3) his return to Apple
4) the lesson he teaches the younger generation.
Part 3. About death 1) Vocabulary focus. Explain the meaning of the following: encounter; a tumour on sb’s pancreas; in/curable; have a biopsy; destination; issue a catalog
2) Content focus. Reread the text; using the above vocabulary, speak about:
1) the question S.Jobs asks himself every morning
2) the reason why it is worth remembering about death
3) S.Jobs’ disease
4) why death is important
5) the slogan “Stay hungry. Stay foolish”
POST-READING
Activity 7. Sum up the lessons S. Jobs teaches the younger generation concerning:
a) connecting dots; b) life difficulties; c) occupation; d) death; e) main values
Activity 8. Express your dis/agreement with Job’s ideas. Analyze/share with your group if and how you have implemented/are going to implement them in your life.
