Life Stories

Exercise 2

practical, adj.
practically, adv.
drop out of school = napustiti školu
put a lot of energy/time/money into something

Exercise 3 – The Past Simple Tense

Regular verbs Irregular verbs

start, started be, was/were
divorce, divorced grow up, grew up
drop, dropped run, ran
play, played go, went
work, worked fall, fell
graduate, graduated have, had
can, could
teach, taught
begin, began
make, made
do, did
put, put

TO BE
Positive: I was born in Manhattan in 1940.
Negative: I wasn’t born in Manhattan.
Question: Was I born in Manhattan? Where was I born? When was I born?
Were you born in Manhattan? Where were you born? When were you
born?

REGULAR VERBS
Positive: I worked as a designer in my late twenties.
Negative: I didn’t work as a designer…
Question: Did I work as designer…? Did you work as a designer…?
What did you do? When did you work as a designer?

IRREGULAR VERBS
Positive: I made my first film in 1972.
Negative: I didn’t make my first film…
Question: Did you make your first film…?
What did you make in 1972?
When did you make your first film?

Exercise 4

1. Where did she move? She moved to Idaho.

2. What university did she graduate from?
3. How old was he when he founded Facebook?
4. Did they get married?
5. Where did she grow up?
6. What did he do before he became famous?

Our examples:
I fell in love in my second year (at university).
What was your best friend’s name in primary school?
I studied economics.
Why did you drop out of law school / university? It was difficult.

Exercise 7

1. He started ___ school when he was 5.

2. Lance’s favourite subject was ___ but he was bad at ___.
3. Lance was a ___ student – he didn’t do his homework.
4. Pamela’s favourite subjects were ___ and ___.
5. Pamela was an ___ student – she always wanted to learn more.
6. When she was in high school, she had to ___ for a few months.