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YouTube was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim while they were employees at PayPal. They founded the company in a garage in Menlo Park, California and it allowed users to upload, view, and share videos online. In 2006, they sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion, making the founders millionaires.

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4.say What/who The Following Bold Words Refer To in The Text: They - Their - His - His - It - Them

YouTube was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim while they were employees at PayPal. They founded the company in a garage in Menlo Park, California and it allowed users to upload, view, and share videos online. In 2006, they sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion, making the founders millionaires.

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1. TRUE or FALSE?

Find evidence for the


following statements. Quote from the
YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed text.
Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park, California. The inventors 1.When YouTube was launched none of the
became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 inventors were over the age of 30.
billion dollars to the search engine Google. 2.The founders were all employees of
According to their fact sheet, YouTube was founded in February PayPal.
2005, as a destination to watch and share original videos 3.Yahoo acquired the business for $1.65
worldwide through the Web. Users can upload and share video billion.
clips on www.YouTube.com and YouTube enables video 4.Youtube wasn’t an instant hit.
embedding that allows YouTube videos to be placed on non- 5.On YouTube users can upload, view and
YouTube pages. Youtube was instantly a roaring success and share videos.
news of the site spread by word of mouth which fuelled its initial
growth.
2.Match the following words to their
YouTube Inventor - Steve Chen
synonyms:
Steve Chen was born in 1978 in Taiwan and immigrated to the
United States when he was 15. He was educated at the University 1.whiz a.fact page
of Illinois and after graduation found employment at PayPal, 2.growth b.install
where he met his fellow YouTube co-inventors and co-founders 3.embed c.growing
Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Currently, Steve Chen serves as 4.cohort d.arise
the Chief Technology Officer at YouTube. 5.roaring e.development
YouTube Inventor - Chad Hurley
6.fact sheet f.very intelligent/expert
Born in 1977, Chad Hurley received a Bachelors degree in Fine
Art from the University of Pennsylvania and was later employed 7.fuel g.partner
eBay’s PayPal division. Currently, Chad Hurley serves as the Chief 1___2___3___4___5___6___7___
Executive Officer at YouTube and is considered a whiz at user
interface design. As a sidenote: Hurley designed Paypal's
trademark logo. 3.Match the following words to their
YouTube Inventor - Jawed Karim antonyms
Born in 1979, Jawed Karim also worked at Paypal, where he met 1.future a.remove/refuse
his future corporate cohorts. However, Karim has also pursued 2.unintentionally b.difficultly
an advanced degree at Stanford University and is considered the
3.elusive c.narrowly/locally
elusive member of the threesome. According to Jawed Karim the
inspiration for YouTube came from the faux pas committed by 4.easily d.past
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, when Janet’s breast was 5.provide e. slightly
unintentionally exposed during the Super Bowl half-time 6.widely f.confronting
performance. Karim could not easily find that video clip online 7.profoundly g.deliberately
and then a few others. Not a problem he would have today.
When YouTube was created, it was a way for users to upload 1___2___3___4___5___6___7___
personal videos as well as provide clips of television shows and
movies for sharing. Soon, it became possible to download clips
directly from YouTube and convert them into more widely used 4.Say what/who the following bold words
media formats.YouTube profoundly changed television habits: if refer to in the text:
one missed a new episode of a program, it wasn't necessary to they _________ their_________
wait until mid-season for reruns. Instead, one could click onto his __________ his ____________
YouTube and run a search for the missed episode. it ___________ them ___________
http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/YouTube.htm

5.Read the following text and fill in the gaps with words from the list.

year views videos top ten risen point number music million first era

YouTube has come to define the 1.___________ of online video, so let's take a look at its most popular
2._______ of all time. Our latest update has Justin Bieber still at 3._______ one with Baby, which was
the 4._______ video to earn a half a billion views! Currently, Bieber and Eminem between them make
half of the top 5._______. Also of note is a music video by Jennifer Lopez called On The Floor ft. Pitbull,
which has 6._______ to number two with 500 million views in less than a 7._______
We first did this list in August 2007, at which 8._______ Evolution of Dance by comedian Judson Laipply
was number one with nearly 56 million views (it's now outside the 9._______ ten). The next update was
September 2008, when Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend pop 10._______ video was number one with 103 million
views. In January 2010, Charlie bit my finger - again ! was number one, with 148 million 11._______ By
the beginning of January 2011, Justin Bieber was at number one with over 400 12._______ views for
Baby. www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time.php
KEY
EX.1
1.On YouTube users can upload, view and share videos. T
Steve Chen was born in 1978
Chad Hurley was born in 1977
2.Steve Chen after graduation found employment at PayPal, where he met his fellow YouTube
co-inventors and co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
3.when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.
4.Youtube was instantly a roaring success
5.It was a way for users to upload personal videos as well as provide clips of television shows
and movies for sharing.

EX.2
fact sheet- fact page
embed - install
roaring- growing
fuel - arise
growth -development
whiz - very intelligent/expert
cohort - partner

EX.3
future past
unintentionally deliberately
elusive confronting
easily difficultly
provide remove/refuse
widely narrowly/locally
profoundly slightly

EX.4
they -inventors
their-inventors
his -Chen
his -Karim
it -youtube
them -clips

EX.5
1. Era
2. Videos
3. Number
4. First
5. Ten
6. Risen
7. Year
8. Point
9. Top
10. Music
11. Views
12. million

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