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Steve Jobs' Stanford Speech: Love and Loss, You Can Only Connect The Dots Looking Backward

Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford University where he shared three stories from his life. The first story was about connecting the dots backwards in life, the second was about love and loss, and the third was about death. Jobs explained that these experiences taught him valuable life lessons about failure and finding what matters most in life. He encouraged students to follow their passions and not be afraid of failure. The speech emphasizes making the most of life's opportunities and experiences.

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Steve Jobs' Stanford Speech: Love and Loss, You Can Only Connect The Dots Looking Backward

Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford University where he shared three stories from his life. The first story was about connecting the dots backwards in life, the second was about love and loss, and the third was about death. Jobs explained that these experiences taught him valuable life lessons about failure and finding what matters most in life. He encouraged students to follow their passions and not be afraid of failure. The speech emphasizes making the most of life's opportunities and experiences.

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Steve Jobs’ Stanford Speech

Do you know the man in the picture? Who is he?

Do you think he was a smart and wise man? Is there anything you could learn from him?

Do you think it’s important to listen to the advice of successful people when you’re young/a
student? Is there anyone who influenced your life when you were very young? Who was that? Is
there anyone whose advice you wish you had heard when you were very young?

Vocabulary

1. A dot – крапка;
2. To drop out – кинути (навчання);
3. To quit – кинути (справу / хобі), звільнитися;
4. to pop out – раптово з'явитися;
5. to figure out – збагнути, розібратисяб зрозуміти;
6. got\be fired – бути звільненим;
7. truly – по-справжньому;
8. failure – невдача;

Task 1 Watch the video of Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford University commencement ceremony
speech. Pause after each story. Put the titles of the stories in the correct order[1:36,2:58]: Death,
Love and Loss, You can only connect the dots looking backward;

Task 2 After each story answer the questions:

1. What was the story about?

2. What did it teach Jobs?


Steve Jobs’ Stanford Speech

3. Can you relate to that?

4. Think of an example that illustrates what Jobs was talking about; from your own life, the life
of someone you know, a famous person or a hypothetical situation.

5. Do you think this advice is valuable? Would you use it in your life? Why/why not?

What are your final thoughts on the speech? Why do you like or dislike those ideas? Why do you
think that speech has become famous and is still remembered (the speech was made in 2005)?

Exercise 1 Choose the correct variant

По справжньому Зрозуміти

o Truly o Drop out


o trule o Figure out

Невдача Бути звільненим

o Failury o Got fired


o Failure o Got quited

Кинути навчання Раптово з’явитися

o Drop out o Poop out


o Figure out o Pop out

Exercise 2 Come up with your own sentences using new vocabulary

How do you understand this quote: Live each day as it’s your last day.

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