Como contar aquele "Causo" que aconteceu com voce ou com um amigo em um passado recente ou mais longínquo? como conjugar os verbos em inglês usando o SIMPLE PAST? Vamos fazer mais alguns Podcasts sobre o passado (simple past) mas hoje vamos começar pelos verbos Regulares e suas conjugações.
Todos os verbos mencionados no podcast está nesse texto que conta um breve resumo sobre a vida de Steve jobs.
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Steve Jobs was a famous American entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder and chairman
of Apple Inc.
He was born in San Francisco, California in 1955. He lived with his adoptive parents Paul and Clara
Jobs. Paul worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, and Steve learned how to work with his hands. Paul
showed Steve how to build electronics such as radios and televisions.
Steve Jobs’ career started in 1972. He worked as a technician for Atari. After taking a break to travel
to India, Jobs returned to Atari in 1974. In 1975, he attended meetings of the Homebrew Computer
Club with Steve Wozniak. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak started their own business, which they named
”Apple Computer Company”, remembering a happy summer when Jobs picked apples.
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. They received funding from an Intel engineer and
started to sell the computers. However, because of disappointing sales and Jobs’s difficult relationship
with the company, he stopped coming to work and resigned as chairman in 1985. Jobs founded NeXT
Inc. after his resignation with $7 million. In 1996, Apple decided to buy NeXT for $427 million and
Jobs returned to the company that he co-founded.
With Jobs as chairman, the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac,
the iPod portable music player and other new products. On June 29, 2007, Apple entered the cellular
phone business with the introduction of the iPhone.
Jobs earned a salary of only $1 per year as CEO but he was worth $8.3 billion in 2010 according to
Forbes. In August 2011, he resigned as CEO of Apple and he died of cancer in October 2011.
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