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

(Nhìn vào bức ảnh. Bạn nghĩ người phụ nữ bao nhiêu tuổi? Tại sao bạn nghĩ bà ấy nổi tiếng?)

2. Read the text and check your ideas.

(Đọc văn bản và kiểm tra ý tưởng của bạn.)

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!

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 khung 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

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!. Sử dụng động từ ‘learn’. nghĩa thay đổi như thế nào?)

When Tom left school, he_________/ _________ / _________ to drive.

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.

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

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.)

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.’

7. 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.

(Nói cho cả lớp biết về một người có thật hoặc tưởng tượng 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? (sinh ra khi nào / ở đâu?)                    

education? (giáo dục?)                       

job? (công việc?)            

married (tình trạng hôn nhân)

family? (gia đình?)

moved (di chuyển?)

other interesting facts? (sự thật thú vị khác?)