Steve Jobs: Taste, Focus and Second Chances

All levels48 minFamous PeopleLesson 5 of 6 · Outline

Aims

Pushed out of the company he founded, he came back and cut the product list to four. Focus, taste and difficult leadership, for B2 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 237-word news story: He was forced out of his own company, and came back to save it

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    6 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Forty things or one

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Difficult people

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Taste and rejection

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

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