Colegio y Liceo San Juan Bautista
Name: _______________ Date:_________ Mark:_____________
1) Listening
a) Listen to Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and answer the questions below.
1) What is he talking about?
a) Why Facebook might be dangerous
b) Facebook being overcrowded
c) Evolution of Facebook and sharing control
2) Why did he invent Facebook?
a) because people like sharing stuff
b) because people were tired of MSN and MySpace
c) because he wanted to become a millionaire
3) What is the main thing that people complain about?
a) that facebook is too overcrowded
b) that they can't play online games
c) that some information is too difficult to control
/3
b) Write two of the three changes that the facebook team has made recently
1) ___________________________________________________________________
2) ___________________________________________________________________
/4
2) Read the text below about Facebook and decide if the statements are true or false
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated
and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million
active users.Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange
messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may
join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other
characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to
students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help
students get to know each other better. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at
least 13 years old to become registered users of the website.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science
students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz andChris Hughes. The website's membership was
initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in
the Bostonarea, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at
various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13
and over, but based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13
with accounts, violating the site's terms.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by
worldwide monthly active users, followed byMySpace.Entertainment Weekly included the site on its
end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our coworkers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before
Facebook?" Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May
2011. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had
a Facebook account.
a) From the beginning Facebook had 600 million users. ______
b) The name comes from the book that students are given on the last day at the University. ________
c) No one under 13 has access to Facebook. _____
/6
3)
Complete the text below with the correct tense of the verb.
You say you want a revolution? Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook _______ (be) a key spark in
the spread and organization of the recent revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.
Back home President Obama ________ (describe) Facebook as an example of American
innovation in his January State of the Union Address. A month later Zuckerberg ________
(sit) next to Obama at a dinner with other tech titans like Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt,
Larry Ellison and John Doerr. Over the last year the 26-year-old's fortune surged 238% to
$13.5 billion as investments from firms like Goldman Sachs boosted Facebook's
valuation to $50 billion. "The Social Network," a fictionalized film of Facebook's creation,
further thrust Zuck & Co. into the spotlight and _______ (earn) an Oscar for best adapted
screenplay. This movie ____ (be) about the creation of Facebook and its first years. It also
________ (deal) with the lawsuits and troubles that ______ (come) along the way of
becoming a multimillionaire at such young age.
/7
4) Complete the following sentences using only one word
a) My sister is all day on facebook, I can't _______ it!
b) I was never good ____ sports, so it's great to have online games.
c) I enjoy __________ outside more than sitting in front of a computer all day long
/3
5) Circe the correct option
a) Mark was very intelligently/intelligent to create this social network
b) He planned everything very careful/carefully
c) The site grew really quick/quickly
/3
6)
You recently went on a fieldtrip to visit Mark Zuckerberg's old high school.
Write a letter to a friend describing it, saying how different it is from your highschool and
finish the letter because something interrupted you or you had to go and do something
else.
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
............................................................................................................................................
....................
/10
