My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book

Breaking News English

HOME  |   HELP MY SITE  |  000s MORE FREE LESSONS
 
My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book
 

HOW TO PLAY:

 1. Click this link to listen.

 2. Listen and choose the correct word in the grey box with the "up / down" arrows.

 3. Check your answers.

 4. Press the "refresh" button on your browser to play again.

   aged      ambitious      competition      countries      department      entrepreneur      event      future      game      giants      higher      impressive      launch      more      never      product      project      teenager      vice      world  
Tech Facebook and Google are in to attract the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian Ben Pasternak sparked the interest of the companies after he designed an app for a called Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded than 500,000 times since its in October. The addictive game managed to climb than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook’s internship for a tour of the company’s headquarters in California. He is also being wooed by Google, whose -president has asked him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their developers.

Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school- entrepreneurs accepted on a Google and MIT sponsored called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten across the world. They will collaborate on a 36-hour to create a sellable . They will also listen to featured speakers from the technology and hacking . Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young and clearly . He has shown the world that age is just a number." He added that: "[Pasternak's] iPhone app was extremely and if we were to guess, we would imagine it was run by a 15-year-old."

Back to the lesson page


E-mail this lesson to someone who would like to use it in classroom or study with it. 000's more free lessons.
MORE ACTIVITIES:
QUIZZES MORE QUIZZES PRINT READING SEAN'S OTHER SITES

Sentence Jumble

No letters

Gap-Fill

Word Order

Word Pairs

Grammar Gap-Fill

Articles Gap-Fill

Prepositions Gap-Fill

Consonants

Vowels

Missing Letters

Initals Only

Text Jumble - 15

Text Jumble - 24

No Spaces

 

26-Page Handout

Two-Page Mini-lesson.

 

LISTEN

MP3

Discussion Questions

 

DICTATION

10 Sentences

Spelling (12 Words)

Speed Reading
Activities

 

650+ Discussions (13,000+ Qs)

One-Minute Listening Lessons

Famous People Lessons

Holiday & Anniversary Lessons

Sean Banville on Twitter

My Blog

Free ESL Materials

Business English Materials

Lessons On All American Presidents

Lessons On Movies - Classic & New



Copyright © 2004-2015 by Sean Banville | Links | About | Privacy Policy