1. Who is A.P. Giannini?
2. Why is he the person the speaker admires the most?
3. What did A.P. Giannini do when he was on the board of a bank called Columbus Savings and Loans?
4. What did he do when there was a big fire in San Francisco?
5. How did people consider Walt Disney before A.P. Giannini financed him?
6. What big construction did he support?
7. Why is A.P. his favourite entrepreneur?
II. Watch the video and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".
1. Why doesn't she
recommend talking about a famous person in the exam?
2. Why should you
talk about someone you know?
3. Why does she
like talking about her mum?
4. When did her mum start her family?
5. What opportunity did she miss?
6. What do women usually do these days?
7. When did her mum decide to go back to university?
8. What did the speaker do?
9. How does the speaker describe this situation?
10. Did her mum continue studying?
11. What does she have a bachelor's in?
12. What does her mum do now?
III. Watch a video with an example of someone talking about a famous person she admires. Watch out, there are some mistakes in the transcription.
I.
ReplyDelete1. He was the founder of Bank of America.
2. Because he was a different kind of banker. He believed in "the little guy", in the entrepreneur.
3. He opened his own bank to lend money to immigrants because he believed they were hardworking people and would pay back their loans.
4. Although his bank was completely burnt down, he lent money to people based on a look in their eye and a handshake.
5. Walt Disney was seen as a crazy lunatic entrepreneur that nobody wanted to support to create movies and Disneyland.
6. The Golden Gate Bridge
7. Because he continued to take bets on people; a philosophy that has had a big influence on him and has made him the entrepreneur he is.
II.
1. Because probably you don't know enough about that person to fill two minutes fluently and specifically.
2. Because you have stories ready and it's really easy to fill that two minutes. Besides, your personal admiration comes through in your pronunciation.
3. Because she's amazing. She uses her as an example all the time because she's an incredible miraculous human being.
4. She started her family early. That wasn't uncommon in her day because most people started families early, in their 20s or before.
5. She couldn't seek out higher education.
6. Nowadays females put off the goals of family and pursue career and personal fulfilment before they give themselves to others.
7. After having three kids, when she was in her 40s.
8. She was still in high school and had to tutor her mother through core classes like algebra.
9. It was unforgettable. It was a bonding experience beyond everything else.
10. She continued to get her master's degree in psychology.
11. She has a bachelor's in nutrition.
12. She is in a head position. She controls the nutrition department for a prestigious school district in California.