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FILM
The Social Network is a 2010 movie about the founding of the social networking website
Facebook.

Exercise 1: Answer these personal questions:

1) Have you joined any social networking sites? Why have you done it?
2) Do you have a Facebook account? How often do you open it? Do you find it useful?
Why?
3) Do you think Facebook has made life easier? Why?
4) Do you agree with “You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”?

Exercise 2: The Film

a) Choose 4 characters and match their names to the pictures. Then write a short description about each of them
(physical description, personality...). Include also your opinion about these characters.

Marylin Delpy - Eduardo Saverin - Sean Parker - Christy Lee - Divya Narendra - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -
Dustin Moskovitz - Erica Albright - Peter Thiel -Mark Zuckerberg

b) Choose 2 or three of the characters you have described and write a short paragraph about their relationship.

Exercise 3: Complete the following summary.

The film starts in October 2003 when Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg creates a website to rate
the attractiveness of Harvard girls after his girlfriend Erica Albright 1)….................................... (phrasal verb) him. One
night, being drunk, Mark hacks into the university databases and uses an algorithm provided by his best friend 2)
…............................. (name and surname) to create in a few hours a website called 3)................................... (name),
where male students can choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive.
Mark is 4) p.............................. (verb) with six months of academic probation after bringing down parts of
Harvard's computer network and he becomes 5) p.......................... (adjective) among students. This calls the 6)
a..........................................(noun) of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, identical 7)...................... (noun) and members of
Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gets a job working for the Winklevoss
twins as the programmer of their website, 8) H.......................................... C..................... (name).
Soon afterwards, Mark tells his friend Eduardo of his idea of an online social networking website exclusive to
Harvard University students called Thefacebook. Eduardo agrees to help Mark and helps him with 9)
$............................(number). Once complete, they distribute the link among the students and it quickly becomes very
popular. When they hear about Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendar believe that Zuckerberg
10).................................(verb) their idea.
A few months later, at a lecture by 11)......................... (name), student Christy Lee introduces herself and her
friend Alice to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys to 12)"F...................” (verb) them, which impresses both of them.
After meeting the girls at a bar that night, Christy becomes Eduardo's 13).............................................................. (noun).
That night Mark 14) …............................................................................. (phrasal verb) his ex-girlfriend, Erica, who is
not aware of The Facebook's existence because she is not a Harvard University student. This is why he decides to
expand the site to more schools. Christy, Mark, and Eduardo later return to Mark's room and they start organizing the
company and the next steps to follow.
The Facebook starts expanding and the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become 15) …......................
(comparative adjective). Through their father's connections, they arrange a meeting with Harvard President who does
not think there is any important problem regarding The Facebook.
Meanwhile, Eduardo, Mark and Christy meet Napster co-founder Sean Parker. Mark is impressed with Parker, and
16).............................(connector) they do not make any deal, Parker suggests that they drop "The" from Thefacebook to
make it simply "Facebook".
That summer, Mark moves the company to 17).......................................(city) while Eduardo remains in New
York looking for 18) ad............................................ (noun). When Eduardo finds Parker making business decisions for
Facebook, he gets furious and 19)fr......................(verb) the company's bank account. Later Mark phones him really
angry about the account and then tells him about"an angel investor" who has provided 20)
…....................................................(number dollars.
Meanwhile in England, the Winklevoss twins hear that Facebook has expanded so they finally decide to sue
Mark. Eduardo also announces his intention to sue him because he discovers that his share of the company can be
diluted. Later that night, Parker is arrested for being with underage interns and for possession of 21)
….......................................................................... (noun).
In the end, ….............................................................................................................................
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(complete the last paragraph)

Exercise 4:
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Task: Look for information about Facebook or the film in the newspaper and write a summary in the previous box.
Include the source (the name of the newspaper), the website (if the newspaper is online), the date and the author (if it
has any).
For instance, you can visit www.guardian.co.uk and search for “Mark Suckerberg,” “facebook founder,” “The Social
Network film,” “Jesse Eisenberg” ...

Exercise 5: Writing an article

Write your own article about technology, Facebook, social networks or any other topic related to the film. (120-180
words)