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d Now read paragraphs 1 -5 and check. 2 GRAMMAR relative clauses

a Cover the text. Com plete the sentences w ith who,
1 The Macintosh Classic was the whose, which, that, or where. In som e cases, tw o answers
are possible.
personal com puter that w as m ade by A pple in
1990. It had a 9-inch m onochrom e screen and a
1 The M acintosh Classic was the personal computer
4 m egabyte (MB) memory. It was cheaper than
was made by Apple in 1990.
earlier A pple com puters and very easy to use. It
was their first commercially successful computer. 2 Stephen W ozniak is the American computer engineer
_________ founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs
and _ _ _____ computer designs became the original
2 Stephen Wozniak is the Am erican
Apple I and Apple II computers.
com puter engineer and program m er whose
com puter designs becam e the original Apple 3 Mona introduced Steve as her brother at the party
I and A pple II com puters. He and Steve Jobs _________ she gave to celebrate the publication o f her
becam e friends when they were both working first novel.
at Hewlett Packard. They started making
4 Mountain View is the area in California
com puters in Jo b s's parents' garage, and
Steve Jobs grew up.
together they founded A pple Com puters (now
A p p le Inc.) in 1976. 5 Jonathan M ak’s design,_________ used Jobs’s silhouette

incorporated into the “bite” o f a white Apple logo,
became a worldwide Internet sensation.
3 Mona Simpson is Steve Jo b s's sister.
Jobs w as adopted when he was born, but in the b Answ er the questions in pairs.
1980s he found his biological mother, w ho told
1 In which phrase is the relative pronoun (who, that, etc.)
him that he had a sister. M ona and Steve met for
not necessary?
the first time in 1985 (when she was 25 and he
2 In which sentence could you leave out the relative
was 30) and they becam e very close. They kept
clause, but the sentence would still make sense?
their relationship secret for a year until M ona
c > - p.150 Grammar Bank 10A. Learn m ore about
introduced Steve as her brother at the party that
defining and nondefining relative clauses, and
she gave to celebrate the publication of her first
practice them.
novel, Anywhere But Here.
d Cover the text and look at the photos. Can you
rem em ber the connections with Steve Jobs? Try to use
4 Mountain Viewis the city in
a relative clause.
California where Steve Jobs grew up. He was
born in San Francisco and w as adopted by
Paul and Clara Jobs. W hen he was six years 3 WRITING
old the family m oved to Mountain View, which
a > - p.121 Writing A biography. W rite a biography o f an
w as becom ing a center for electronics. People
interesting or successful person you know about.
began to call the area "Silicon Valley" because
silicon is used to manufacture electronic parts. b > - Communication R elatives quiz A p.108 B p.112.
W rite quiz questions to ask a partner.

5 This i S the l o C J O that w as designed
by Jonathan Mak, a Chinese design student
from H ong Kong, as a tribute to Steve Jobs
when he died. The design, which used Jobs's
silhouette incorporated into the "bite" of a
white A p p le logo, becam e a w orldwide Internet
sensation. The teenager said that Jobs had
inspired him to becom e a designer.

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