Look at the photo. How old do you think the woman is? Why do you think she is famous?
Look at the photo. How old do you think the woman is? Why do you think she is famous?
Read the text and check your ideas.
Jeanne Calment, the person with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1875, in Arles, France. Her parents ran a shop in the town and she worked there when she was a teenager. While she was serving in the shop in 1888, she met Vincent Van Gogh, who has come in to buy pencils. She thought he was ‘dirty, ugly and badly dressed’!
In 1896, at the age of 21, she married Fernand Calment and then gave birth to a daughter, Yvonne. Fernand was very wealthy, so Jeanne never needed to work. She lived in Arles for the rest of her life, dying on 5 August 1997 at the age of 122.
So how did Jeanne manage to live so long? The French have their own theories, noting that she ate more than two pounds of chocolate a week and rode a bicycle until she was 100!
Thảo luận (1)Hướng dẫn giảiShe is famous for having the longest lifespan ever.
(Cô ấy nổi tiếng là người có tuổi thọ cao nhất từ trước đến nay.)
Thông tin: Jeanne Calment, the person with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1875, in Arles, France.
(Jeanne Calment, người có tuổi thọ cao nhất từ trước đến nay, sinh năm 1875, tại Arles, Pháp)
(Trả lời bởi Người Già)
Complete the Learn this! box with the tenses below. Then underline an example of each of the rules (a-d) in the text in exercise 2.
past continuous past perfect past simple
LEARN THIS! Past tenses. a. We use the 1_____________ for a sequence of events that happened one after another. In 1989, my parents met, fell in love and got married. b. We use the 2_____________to describe a scene in the past. The events were in progress at the same time. It was raining and people were rushing home from work. c. We use the 3_____________for a single event that interrupted a longer event in the past. We use the 4_____________for the longer event. My parents got engaged while they were living in Wales. d. We use the 5_____________for an event that happened before another event in the past. He had started a business before he left school. |
Thảo luận (1)Hướng dẫn giải1 past simple
2 past continuous
3 past simple - past continuous
4 past perfect
(Trả lời bởi Sinh Viên NEU)
Complete this sentence in three different ways using the three tenses in the Learn this! box. Use the verb learn. How does the meaning change?
When Tom left school, he_________/ _________ / _________ to drive.
Thảo luận (2)Hướng dẫn giảiWhen Tom left school, he learned to drive
When Tom left school, he was learning to driveWhen Tom left school, he had learned to drive (Trả lời bởi Trường An)
Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.
1. We ____________ (move) house a lot while I____________ (grow up).
2. After Joe ____________ (learn) to drive, he___________ (buy) a car.
3. George ____________ (leave) school, ____________ (go) to university and____________ (study) engineering.
4. My parents ____________ (get) engaged in 1990.
5. They ____________ (fall) in love two years before, while they ____________ (work) in London.
Thảo luận (1)Hướng dẫn giải1 moved - was growing
2 had learned - bought
3 left - went - studied
4 got
5 had fallen - were working
(Trả lời bởi Sinh Viên NEU)
Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs below.
be | be | become | die | get | leave |
live | meet | not stop | retire | say | work |
Japan is the country with the most centenarians: over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, 1____________born in 1897. Kimura 2____________school at fourteen and 3____________ a job in a post office. While he 4 ____________there, he 5____________his future wife Yae. He 6____________a postal worker for 45 years when he 7____________in 1962. But he 8____________working! He 9____________a farmer! In an interview just before he 10____________at the age of 116, he said he wasn’t sure why he 11____________so long. ‘Maybe it's thanks to the sun,’ he 12____________. ‘I'm always looking up to the sky.’
Thảo luận (1)Hướng dẫn giải1 was
2 left
3 got
4 was working
5 met
6 had been
7 retired
8 didn't stop
9 became
10 died
11 had lived
12 said
(Trả lời bởi Sinh Viên NEU)
SPEAKING Tell the class about a real or inventive person from a previous generation (e.g. A parent / grandparent). Use the headings below and make use of past tenses.
Born when / where? Education? Job? Married? Family? Moved? Other interesting facts?
Thảo luận (1)Hướng dẫn giảiI would like to talk about my grandfather. He was born in Da Lat City. His birthday is on the 25th of February 1928. Actually, in the past, the economy was poor so he didn't have the condition to finish his education. Therefore, he stopped learning when he was 16. He stayed at home and helped his parents on the farm. When he was 22, he started to move to Ho Chi Minh City to find a job. While he was working as a taxi driver, he met Anh, my grandmother. They loved each other at first sight and they got married two years later. Because of the beauty of Ho Chi Minh City, they decided to settle down here. There is interesting information that I want to tell you. After they had run a business successfully, my grandfather wanted to come back to Da Lat City with his wife to enjoy the rest of their life.
Tạm dịch:
Tôi muốn nói về ông nội của tôi. Ông sinh ra ở Thành phố Đà Lạt. Ngày sinh của ông là ngày 25 tháng 2 năm 1928. Thực ra ngày xưa kinh tế khó khăn nên ông không có điều kiện học hết. Do đó, ông đã ngừng học khi ông 16 tuổi. Ông ở nhà và giúp đỡ cha mẹ của mình trong trang trại. Năm 22 tuổi, ông bắt đầu vào TP.HCM để tìm việc làm. Trong khi ông đang làm tài xế taxi, ông ấy đã gặp Ánh, bà của tôi. Ông bà yêu nhau từ cái nhìn đầu tiên và họ kết hôn hai năm sau đó. Vì vẻ đẹp của thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, họ quyết định lập nghiệp tại đây. Có một thông tin thú vị mà tôi muốn nói với bạn. Sau khi làm ăn phát đạt, ông tôi muốn cùng vợ trở lại thành phố Đà Lạt để tận hưởng nốt quãng đời còn lại.
(Trả lời bởi Người Già)