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 1904 2006 Two thousand eight
Two thousand eight 2008 2013 Twenty thirteen
Nineteen seventy seven 1977 1998 Nineteen ninety -eight

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 ___did_____, but we ____wasn´t__________ born here. My sister and I __was_______ born
in Puerto Rico, and we moved here when we ___was________ kids.

Rick: So, _were_______ you study English when you __was________ in school in Puerto Rico?

Dina: Yes, we ___was_______ - for a few years – but we __weren´t_______ really learn English until
we came here.

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

Granny: I _was_____ born in 1934.

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

Granny: No, I _didn´t________. Your grandfather and I _was__wasn´t_____ both born in China.

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

Granny: My family ____as______ move here until I ___did____ 13 years old.

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

Granny: Yes, we __were_____. But we ____weren´t______ sad for long. We soon made friends and
everything.

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

Granny: He ___was____ born in 1933, but he says he ___was_____ 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 ___to___ 1994. We were very young _from_________
when became friends. Mi-young is a very interesting person. She was born
in Busan, South Korea, __in_____ 1990. Her family moved to the U.S.
__when_______ she was three years old. They lived in Chicago
__for_________ Mi-young was 15.

__then______ they moved to New York City. I cried __for______ a long

time after they moved.

Mi-young didn’t live in New York _long_______ because she came back to
Chicago for college __to______ she was 18. We were roommates at the University of Chicago
__for______ four years - ____in____ 2008 __to_ 2012. We graduated and share an apartment
_from_______ a few months. __in_______ she got a great job in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved there. I
really missed her, but guess what? ___last_____ month she called me and said there’s a perfect job for
me at her company. So I’m going there ___in____ 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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