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Skills 360 – Tips for Successful Presentations 2

Skills 360 – Tips for Successful Presentations 2

WRITING

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FEATURES OF A TEXT

Passive Voice

Hershey's How we make chocolate.

Describing a process: Use of passive voice.

Watch the video: “Hershey’s How we Make Chocolate” and fill in the steps in the process with a suitable past participle.

Steps to make chocolate

1. Cocoa beans are __________________in South America and Africa and tropical regions in the Equator.
2. Cocoa beans are __________________ by hand, ____________ and _______________ in silos in the chocolate factory.
3. Cocoa beans are________________, _________________(dry pods and other unwanted matters are______________ and ________________by the country of origin and type of flavour. Then they are ________________in the right proportion.
4. Cocoa beans are __________________ to change their colour and enhance their flavour.
5. At the breaking chamber beans are _________________ into fragments and they are ___________________ into the shell and the nib, the centre of the cocoa bean, which is the part of the bean used to make chocolate. That is, grains are_________________.
6. Nibs are __________________to release their liquid: the chocolate liquor. The chocolate liquor is __________________ to extract cocoa butter leaving cocoa solids. Some additional chocolate butter and liquor are _________________ back in precise amounts. The cakes left are_________________, _________________and _________________ to get cocoa powder.
7. Wholesome milk and sugar are carefully _________________ in large tanks and ________________ahead to the central blending operation to get the crumb. The crumb is _________________to remove excess moisture and additional cocoa butter is________________.
8. The chocolate is ground and stirred constantly. It is punched so that it is refined.
9. Almonds are __________________ and ___________________in California.
10. Almonds are __________________ in the moulds, the chocolate paste is _________________ and air bubbles are _________________ in a bumpy ride. The chocolate bars are ___________________and________________.
11. Each product is individually ___________________in an automated wrapping machine.

Adele - Rolling In The Deep

"Rolling In The Deep" by Adele

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____________  a fire ____________  in my heart

____________  a fever pitch, and ___________   _____________ me out the dark

Finally I ___________  ____________  you crystal clear

___________  ahead and ____________me out and ___________   __________your ship bare

___________  how ___________   ____________  with every piece of you

___________  _____________  the things that I _____________   _____________

____________  a fire ____________ in my heart

____________  a fever pitch

And ____________    ______________me out the dark

The scars of your love _____________  me of us

They _____________  me ____________  that we almost _____________ it all

The scars of your love, they ____________  me breathless

I _____________   _____________  ____________

We ____________  ____________  ____________  it all

_____________  in the deep

(Tears ___________  _____________  ___________  , ___________in the deep)

You ____________  my heart inside of your hand

(_____________  ____________  ____________  you never ____________   ___________ me)

And you ___________ it to the beat

(Tears____________  ___________  __________  , _____________ in the deep)

Baby, I ___________ no story ___________  ___________  __________

But __________   ___________ one of you

And __________  ___________  __________ your head __________

___________ of me in the depths of your despair

___________ a home down there

As mine sure _____________  ____________  ____________

We ___________  ____________  ___________ it all

____________  in the deep

You ___________  my heart inside of your hand

But you ___________ it with a beating

___________ your soul through every open door

___________ your blessings __________  __________ what you __________ __________

___________  my sorrow into treasured gold

You __________me ___________ in kind and ___________  just what you ___________

(___________  __________  ___________ you never __________  __________ me)

We _________  __________  __________  it all

(Tears___________  _________  _________  , ___________  in the deep)

We ___________  __________  __________  it all

(__________  _________  _________  you never __________  __________ me)

It all, it all, it all

(Tears__________  __________  _________, ___________ in the deep)

But you __________  it

You ____________ it

You _

You ___________it to the beat.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

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1)      Read the first story of the Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs and put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. Put the adverbs of frequency in the right order if necessary.

Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I __________ (want) (1) to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.

I ___________(drop) (2)out of Reed College after the first six months but then __________ (stay)(3) around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why _________I _________(drop)(4) out? It ________(start)(5)  before I was born. My biological mother __________ (be)(6) a young, unwed graduate student, and she _________(decide)(7) to put me up for adoption. She ________(feel)(8) very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really ________ (want)(9) a girl. So my parents, who _________ (be)(10)  on a waiting list, ________ (get) (11)a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. _________ you ________(want) (12)him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother never __________ (graduate)(13) from college and that my father never ___________ (graduate)(14) from high school. She _________ (refuse)(15) to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I ___________ (go)(16) to college.

This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely _________ (choose)(17) a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we ___________ (design)(18) the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I  never ___________ (drop)(19) in on that single course in college, the Mac never ____________ (have)(20) multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

2)      Listen to the second story  (5.22)and answer the following questions.

1.      What happened when he had just turned thirty? 

2.      Why was Steve Jobs fired from Apple?

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3.      Why did he return to the company? What had he done in the meantime?

3)      Listen to the first part of the third story and fill in the blanks with the right word.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an __________ (1) on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the ___________ (2)every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to __________(3) something.

Remembering that I'll be _________(4) soon is the most important _________(5)I've ever encountered to help me make the big __________(6)in life. Because almost everything — all external__________ (7), all__________(8), all fear of ___________ (9)or -___________ (10) - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Skills 360 – Tips for Successful Presentations 1

Skills 360 – Tips for Successful Presentations 1