WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS WITH 'OF'

Instructions. In fast speech 'of' often sounds like 'v'. That's why expressions like 'kind of' or 'a lot of' might be difficult to catch. Which frequent expressions with 'of' are missing from the gaps?

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

I grew up here in the valley about a mile from Apple Computer and I belong to (1) ………….. the Apple user groups that -- that was going and we had a friend -- a friend of the club, (2) ………….. the people on the -- in the club had a garage and we turned it into a BDS. was a blogger and videographer there going around doing interviews with all (3) ………….. people there. When I quit Microsoft I told 15 people at a conference smaller than 17 days. Fun story. If you -- (4) ………….. my favorite questions is, would you rather have a hundred thousand dollars today or would you rather have a an executive at Microsoft and you'll see what they wrote in realtime; and (5) ………….. 'em I can tell you something about them. Like Sacca is an investor in twitter, you know, Jeremy Toeman launched So I know Jeremy Toeman's totally into gadgets. He launched Bug Labs, which is a totally innovative company. Helped launch Slingbox which (6) …………..you have. Umm, and so I know he wants to hear about gadgets or see innovative innovation. He wants to hear about music and entrepreneur innovation. Maybe he has (7) ………….. the same interests that Jeremy does but I start looking at how to create a -- how to pass along a story. Umm, when I first sold Seagate, so Seagate was (8) ………….. my sponsors for a couple years, I told -- I went in there say said, let's with; right? And then you need to study, you know, start with (9) ………….. them, like Pierre Omidyar, which Loik knows, he started E-bay. He has (10) …………..money. So if you're trying to raise money, go where the money is; right? defensive because they know the camera can hurt me; right? (11) ………….. the tricks I used was I used a $250 camera instead of buying a real expensive big camera because it helps you relax and times. Loic is gonna tell you about his post he wrote last night. (12) ………….. his tips was you gotta be on 24 hours a day. You gotta figure out how to get your company to be on 24 hours a day, today? A few; right in this guy is changing how we think of Ford. Francine Hartaway, (13) ………….. my friends, is driving a Ford Focus just because of this guy, you know, and how he's personalized a the four people. Umm, we're craving less of this (14) ………….. experience but -- what? Yeah. Okay. We're craving less of this (15) ………….. experience and more of an intimate dinner conversation with four people and turn that around

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

I grew up here in the valley about a mile from Apple Computer and I belong to (1) (one of) the Apple user groups that -- that was going and we had a friend -- a friend of the club, (2) (one of) the people on the -- in the club had a garage and we turned it into a BDS. was a blogger and videographer there going around doing interviews with all (3) (sorts of) people there. When I quit Microsoft I told 15 people at a conference smaller than 17 days. Fun story. If you -- (4) (one of) my favorite questions is, would you rather have a hundred thousand dollars today or would you rather have a an executive at Microsoft and you'll see what they wrote in realtime; and (5) (a lot of) 'em I can tell you something about them. Like Sacca is an investor in twitter, you know, Jeremy Toeman launched So I know Jeremy Toeman's totally into gadgets. He launched Bug Labs, which is a totally innovative company. Helped launch Slingbox which (6) (many of) you have. Umm, and so I know he wants to hear about gadgets or see innovative innovation. He wants to hear about music and entrepreneur innovation. Maybe he has (7) (some of) the same interests that Jeremy does but I start looking at how to create a -- how to pass along a story. Umm, when I first sold Seagate, so Seagate was (8) (one of) my sponsors for a couple years, I told -- I went in there say said, let's with; right? And then you need to study, you know, start with (9) (one of) them, like Pierre Omidyar, which Loik knows, he started E-bay. He has (10) (a lot of) money. So if you're trying to raise money, go where the money is; right? defensive because they know the camera can hurt me; right? (11) (One of) the tricks I used was I used a $250 camera instead of buying a real expensive big camera because it helps you relax and times. Loic is gonna tell you about his post he wrote last night. (12) (One of) his tips was you gotta be on 24 hours a day. You gotta figure out how to get your company to be on 24 hours a day, today? A few; right in this guy is changing how we think of Ford. Francine Hartaway, (13) (one of) my friends, is driving a Ford Focus just because of this guy, you know, and how he's personalized a the four people. Umm, we're craving less of this (14) (kind of) experience but -- what? Yeah. Okay. We're craving less of this (15) (kind of) experience and more of an intimate dinner conversation with four people and turn that around

Sources: 

Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Robert Scoble: Role of Social Media in Marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76CJrA6-4Y

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