Bill Gates
William Henry Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955.
He is an American business executive, chairman and chief executive officer of the Microsoft Corporation. Gates was the founder of Microsoft in 1975 together with Paul Alien, his partner in computer language development. While attending Harvard in 1975, Gates together with Alien developed a version of the BASIC computer programming language for the first personal computer.
In the early 1980s. Gates led Microsoft's evolution from the developer of computer programming languages to a large computer software company. This transition began with the introduction of MS-DOS, the operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer in 1981. Gates also led Microsoft towards the introduction of application software such as the Microsoft Word processor.
Much of Gates' success is based on his ability to translate technical visions into market strategy. Although Gates has accumulated great wealth from his holdings of Microsoft stock, he has been known as a tough competitor who seems to value winning in a competitive environment over money. Gates still continues to work personally in product development at Microsoft.
Make a round table discussion
Questions for group discussion:
1) Some people think that Internet is very harmful, especially for young people, because it carries a lot of information about sex, drugs, violence and terrorism. Do you think that some kind of censorship is necessary on the WWW?
2) World famous authors and publishers say that the Internet violates their copyright because Web-programmers put all kinds of books, pictures, music, films and programs free on the Internet and this reduces their sales and profits.
3) Has anyone in your group experience working on the Internet? Ask them 1) about the difficulties they had; 2) useful information retrieved; 3) fun they got? Why so few people have experience working on the Internet?
Do exercises from Macmillan English grammar in use.
Lesson 12
Super phones.
Grammar: Second conditional
Use Second Conditional to talk about unlikely or imagined situations in the present/ future.
Form: if+Past Simple, would (or ‘d)+ infinitive
If you won some money, I’d go to Australia for a long holiday.
The if clause can come first or second.
I’d train to be a pilot, if I wasn’t afraid of flying.
Compare with the First conditional which we use for talking about possible situations in the future.
If I pass all my exams, I will go to University.
When we are less certain. We can use might instead of would
If I had more money, I might buy some new clothes.
Preliminary exercises
Do exercises from Macmillan English grammar in use.
Work in small groups. Discuss these questions.
How many phone calls do you make/receive in a typical day?
What do you use your phone for most? Who do you call most?
What can you say about advantages and disadvantiges of cell phones?
E, g, Cell phone is no longer a symbol of prestige but a tool, which lets to use working time more effectively.
Today we can easily connect to the Internet using our cell phone or to take a picture or to take a short movie, using our video cell phone.
Before start:
1. What companies producing cell phones are wide spread in your country?
2. What is better: home telephone or cell phone?