Talking about your childhood

Unit 3: Getting to know you and your past

Vocabulary
1. Write the years in numbers or words.
In numbers In words
Twenty ten 2010 1982 Nineteen eighty-two
Nineteen oh-four 2006
Two thousand eight 2013
Nineteen seventy seven 1998

Talking about the past

Remember!
- Cuando haces una oracion negativa debes por utilizar el auxiliary (auxiliary verb) didn’t
(did not) y el verbo que le sigue (the action) vuelve a su forma presente, es decir pierde la
terminación _ed.
- Cuando haces preguntas tambien necesitaras el auxiliary “did” y sigue la misma regla antes
mencionada.
- Utilizaremos “did” cuando el verbo que sea un verbo de acción. NO utilizamos “did”
cuando el verbo principal de la oración es el verbo to be (was/ were).
- Utilizamos “was” con los sujetos singulares y utilizaremos “were” con los sujetos plurales
(we, they, you)

2. Complete the conversations with was, wasn’t, were, weren’t, did, or, didn’t
Rick: So, Dina, __did___ you grow up here in Miami?

Dina: Yes, I ________, but we ______________ born here. My sister and I _________ born in Puerto

Rico, and we moved here when we ___________ kids.

Rick: So, ________ you study English when you __________ in school in Puerto Rico?

Dina: Yes, we __________ - for a few years – but we _________ really learn English until we came here.

Rick: Wow! And now you speak English better than I do – and I ________ born here!
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Thomas: When _were__ you born, Granma?

Granny: I ______ born in 1934.

Thomas: Really? __________ you born here in Los Angeles?

Granny: No, I _________. Your grandfather and I ________ both born in China.

Thomas: So, when _________ you come to the U.S.?

Granny: My family __________ move here until I _______ 13 years old.

Thomas: Really? So __________ you sad to leave all your friends and family in China?

Granny: Yes, we _______. But we __________ sad for long. We soon made friends and everything.

Thomas: That’s good. When _________ grandpa born?

Granny: He _______ born in 1933, but he says he ________ really born until 1952.

Thomas: Why does he say that?

Granny: Because that’s when he met me!

A life story
3. Complete the story with the word in the box. You can use some words more than
once.

Ago For From In Last

Long Then To Until When

This is a picture of my best friend, Mi-young. I took it a few years __ago__.

Mi-young and I met ______ 1994. We were very young __________ when
became friends. Mi-young is a very interesting person. She was born in
Busan, South Korea, _______ 1990. Her family moved to the U.S. _________
she was three years old. They lived in Chicago ___________ Mi-young was
15.

________ they moved to New York City. I cried ________ a long time after
they moved.

Mi-young didn’t live in New York ________ because she came back to
Chicago for college ________ she was 18. We were roommates at the University of Chicago ________
four years - ________ 2008 ___ 2012. We graduated and share an apartment ________ a few months.
_________ she got a great job in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved there. I really missed her, but guess
what? ________ month she called me and said there’s a perfect job for me at her company. So I’m
going there _______ October for an interview, and I can’t wait!
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About you
4. Answer the following questions orally. Record yourself using the
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder . Remember to give full answers and bear in
mind your _ed ending pronunciation.

When were you born?

Where were your parents born?

How old were you when you finished school?

How many years did you study in high school?

In what year did you start your studies at Inacap?

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