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Reading and Writing

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Facebook’s creator is now focused on the future of Facebook. He and his team of collaborators are interested in
improving the social experience of users by giving them more and better options to interact over the net.

4. Read again more carefully and answer the questions.


a. What did Mark do at an early age? d. What happened in the year 2007?

He created Synapse Media Player.


b. What happened in the year 2004? e. What will happen to Facebook in the future?


c. What did Mark do when he was at Harvard?

Reading Strategy
5. Read again and decide in which paragraph to put these sentences. Use context clues to discover
what comes after or before
5 This means that in the years to come the way people search for these sentences.
information, connect and share online will be different.
Quickly, it worked so well that Mark decided to drop out of the university
to dedicate himself completely to the development of his company.
Recently, in 2010 the famous Time magazine chose Mark as Person of the Writing Strategy
Year.
Use these expressions to attach
More recently Mark had to face hard critics on privacy issues and the
ideas smoothly and to signpost
policies of his company.
the chronological sequence of
6. Read and choose the correct expression. events.
At an early age, Mark showed
In a short time / Soon / Currently the social network I use is Facebook. great talent for computers.
I enjoy facebooking. Before / When / At the beginning I have free time, I see In the year 2007, Facebook
pics of my friends and write quick messages on their walls and, of course, I became the leading social
play games. Two years ago / In the years to come / Now, my favorite social network.
network was My Space because all my friends had their accounts there. At When he started / finished…
an early age / Recently / When I started to have problems logging in and I Recently, currently, eventually…
got bored. So I signed up with Twitter but I don’t use it much. I think I’ll keep Before / after…
facebooking! Finally…

7. Write a paragraph about a website or social network you use.


Explain past, present and future interests, motivations, obstacles
or joys using it.






Project  Stage 3
• Organize chronologically the information about the person you chose. E.g. At an early age, Justin Bieber began
• Create a visual presentation for this information. to play the piano. In the year…
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