A Two billion dollar dream

Activity sheet- 1 on A two billion dollar dream

*Read the following extract and prepare activities.*

Q. Read The first activity ,read the extract and do all the activities.

A1) read the following statements se whether it is true or false correct the false statements.
i) at the age of 12 Michael rise from teen to tycoon.
ii) over dinner his family teased  Michael.
iii) Michaels father was stockbroker.
iv) he has become 4th largest manufacturer of personal computer in America.

One afternoon in 1977, as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year-old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline- a maze of ropes to which several fish hooks could be attached. You're wasting your time,” the rest of the family called to Michael, as they pulled in fish. Grab a pole and join in the fun.”
Michael kept working. It was dinner time when he finished, and everyone else was ready to call it a day. Still, the youngster cast the trotline far into the water, anchoring it to a stick that he plunged deep in the sand.
Over dinner his family teased young Michael about coming away empty-handed.  But afterwards Michael reeled in his trotline, and on the hooks were more fish than the others      had caught all together !
Michael Dell has always been fond of saying, “If you think you have a good idea,             try it! And today, at 29, he has discovered the power of another good idea that has helped him rise in just a few years from teen to tycoon.  He has become the fourth-largest manufacturer of personal computers in America and the youngest man ever to head Fortune 500 corporation.
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents, Alexander and Lorraine – he an orthodontist, she a stockbroker -with the desire to learn and the drive to work hard. Even so, stories about the middle boy began to be told early.

A2)Complete
Michael succeed in catching more fish than other members of the family by...
1).......................................................................
2)........................................................................

A3)Fine out

Find out from the passage various achievements of Michael.

A4) match the pair's
          A                           B

  i) painstakingly   1) network

 ii) maze.                2) with great care or                                                 trouble
                                 3) pain
A5) personal response

Personal qualities helpful for any person to fulfill his or her dream.
1).....................
2).................
3)....................
4)....................

A6) grammar
 1) I cast around desperately for something        to do and had a sudden idea
( make it   simple sentence)

2) may I speak to you for a moment?

   ( state the function of the underlined modal auxiliary