Look at the photo. How old do you think the woman is? Why do you think she is famous?

2. Read the text and check your ideas.

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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 had 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!

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3. 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.

(Hoàn thành phần Learn this với các thì bên dưới. Sau đó gạch dưới một ví dụ về mỗi quy tắc (a—d) trong văn bản ở bài tập 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.

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4. 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?

(Hoàn thành câu này theo ba cách khác nhau bằng cách sử dụng ba thì trong phần Learn this! hộp. Sử dụng động từ học. nghĩa thay đổi như thế nào?)

When Tom left school, he _____ / _____ / _____ to drive.

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5. Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

(Hoàn thành các câu với dạng quá khứ đơn, quá khứ tiếp diễn hoặc quá khứ hoàn thành đúng của động từ trong ngoặc)

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. They __________ (fall) in love two years before, while they __________ (work) in London.

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6. Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs below.

(Hoàn thành đoạn văn với dạng quá khứ đơn, quá khứ tiếp diễn hoặc quá khứ hoàn thành của các động từ dưới đây)

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!’

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7. SPEAKING. Tell the class about a real or invented person from a previous generation (e.g. a parent, grandparent). Use the headings below and make use of past tenses.

(Kể cho cả lớp nghe về một người có thật hoặc được tạo ra từ thế hệ trước (ví dụ: cha mẹ, ông bà). Sử dụng các tiêu đề dưới đây và sử dụng các thì quá khứ)

Born when / where? Education? Jobs? Married? Family? Moved? Other interesting facts?

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