Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 07 - World culture - The information age for the textbook Cutting Edge Elementary - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Araminta Crace from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the video about Mark Zuckerberg and number the things (1-6) in the order you see them.
  2. Watch again and complete the fact file below with the information in the box. (There is some extra information.)

Answer

a)

  1. Mark Zuckerberg with Barack Obama
  2. the Queen of England's Facebook page
  3. Harvard University
  4. Mark Zuckerberg's first website
  5. Silicon Valley, California
  6. a magazine cover

b)

PERSONAL DETAILS

  • Name: Mark Zuckerberg
  • Born: 1984 in White Plains, New York
  • Studied psychology and computer science at Harvard University
  • Moved to Silicon Valley in 2004

FACEBOOK FACTS

  • First website: thefacebook.com. It had 1 million users after a few months.
  • Number of users worldwide: 800 million
  • Number of users in UK: 30 million
  • Most famous user in UK: the Queen of England
  • Yahoo tried to buy Facebook for $1 billion.
  • Microsoft tried to buy Facebook in 2007 for $15 billion.