Sunday 10 January 2010

An activity around the video: "Steve Jobs' Commencement Address" at Stanford University

This is the speech given by Steve Jobs to the students who were graduating at the University of Stanford in June 2005. To me, it is one of the most inspiring, moving and great speeches ever given.

"Who's Steve Jobs?" some of you may wonder. He's the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple, Pixar animations, .... You can read all about him in the English Wikipedia.




Follow-up to the text:

Follow up to the text -

We've also worked on some vocabulary using the text of the speech which was published in the Stanford University website.

Here is the link to the video with English subtitles part 1 and English subtitles part 2.

Steve Jobs tells us three stories from his life. Now you can vote for your favourite story:

Which is your favourite story?
Connecting the dots
Love and loss
Death