Overheard Let’s listen: Mark Zuckerberg

1 Let’s listen: Mark Zuckerberg Listen and complete the gaps. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May the 14th, 1984. He is the creator of ____________________ Facebook. He was a star student at school, winning ____________________, maths and physics. He also excelled in Classical studies. He studied Psychology and Computer Science at Harvard University, ____________________ created Facebook. His ____________________ his becoming Time magazine’s Person Of The Year for 2010. Zuckerberg excelled in everything ____________________. He was captain of the school fencing team, spoke many languages and was a ____________________ programmer. While other kids played computer games, he designed them. He created his first network while in high school ____________________ the computers in his father’s dental surgery. He also built a media player ____________________ interest of Microsoft and AOL. Zuckerberg started at Harvard in September 2002. In his first year, he created Facemash, a Facebook predecessor, that _________________ the college’s best looking people from ____________________. He launched Facebook from his Harvard room in February 2004. It was the start of ____________________ that would people worldwide and make him the world’s youngest billionaire. In 2010, Zuckerberg signed a promise called the «Giving Pledge», in which he promised to ____________________ of his life wealth to charity.

2 Let’s listen: Believe (Justin Bieber) Listen to the song and think how it can help you to achieve success. Believe, believe, believe, believe I don’t know how I got here I knew it wouldn’t be easy But your faith in me was so clear It didn’t matter how many times I got knocked on the floor But you knew one day I would be standing tall Just look at me now Cause everything starts from something But something would be nothing Nothing if your heart didn’t dream with me Where would I be, if you didn’t believe (Believe) Believe... There were days when I was just broken, you know There were nights when I was doubting myself But you kept my heart from falling It didn’t matter how many times I got knocked on the floor But you knew one day I would be standing tall Just look at us now Cause … Where would I be, if you, if you If you didn’t believe Would I know how it feels to Touch the sky, if you didn’t believe, believe, believe It didn’t matter how many times I got knocked on the floor You knew one day I would be standing tall Just look at us now Cause …