Exercise 1: Discussion

• What about you?
  Do you remember your school teachers?
  Which do you remember most? And why?
• Is there a special teacher you would thank
  for being the person you are today?

*Teachers are the real influencers :
do you agree with this statement?

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Exercise 2 : Listening and comprehension

Listen to recording 1 …

… and to recording 2, then ANSWER the following questions:

1. When is TEACHERS’ DAY celebrated?
2. Who shapes people’s lives the most, according to this article?
3. Who should we thank for having computers today?
4. What did Bill Gates’s Maths teacher do to him that became so determinant in his life?
5. Why was Bill Gates’s drama teacher so important to Bill Gates?

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Exercise 3 : True or False?

Now, listen again to recording

and say if the statements are :

T=   true
F=    false
DS=  doesn’t say

1. Teachers’ Day is celebrated on the same day all over the world.
2. Teachers are probably the second most important people in the lives of all of us.
3. Lots of VIPs were teachers.
4. Lots of great teachers were computer teachers.
5. Bill Gates hated his Maths teacher.
6. Bill Gates slept during Maths classes.
7. Bill Gates loved drama classes.
8. Bill Gates’s best teachers were both women
9. Bill Gates’s drama teacher made him a confident person.
10. Bill Gates is today very thankful to his teachers.
11. Bill Gates wanted to become a film actor.

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Exercise 4 : Vocabulary : which meaning?

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Exercise 5: Unjumble the words of the article: rewrite the messed up words

I’m going to tell you all (oaubt) World Teachers’ Day, which is on the 5th of October.
Let me start by asking you a (qtuieosn). Who shapes the person you are the most? Parents or other (iflaym) members are probably at the top of the list for (ymna) people. But a close second (pclea) is very likely to go to a teacher.

Some of the most influential and successful (plepeo) in the world have a teacher in their childhood to thank for their (cseuscs). Let’s look at some examples.

Can you imagine (flei) without the personal computer? Well, without two of Bill Gates’s high-school teachers, that could be our (lwdor) today.

Gates’s maths teacher, Fred Wright, asked him to (sphu) himself just a (tlliet) bit harder. Maybe that’s why the (fdoeurn) of Microsoft sometimes slept under his (sdke) in the office instead of going (ehmo) to relax after (rokw).

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