3.06.2010

Childhood memories

A. Listen to a woman talking about her childhood and answer these questions. (answers in "comments"). The woman uses "would" to talk about repeated actions in the past (it's the same as "used to", but you can only use it with action verbs, not with state verbs).

1. Where's she living now?
2. Where was she born?
3. When did she move to Galway?
4. Did she like Galway? Why?
5. What kind of school did she go to?
6. What did she do at weekends?
7. How old was she when she met her husband?
8. Why did she move to Paris?
9. Was she happy to live there? Why?

B. Listen to a woman talking about her childhood memories and answer the questions. (answers in "comments").

1. What are her best childhood memories?
2. What did she find one day at Easter?
3. Who take her and her older brother to a town?
4. What did they buy for her?
5. What did she wear?
6. What did she do that she'd never done before?

1 comment:

eoilumi1 said...

A.
1. in France
2. in Dublin
3. She was seven
4. She loved it because they lived beside the sea and she could put on her bathing suit and go swimming and it was great fun (although the water was not very hot)
5. She went to a religious school only for girls.
6. Tehy enjoyed themselves. They'd dress themselves up to the nines and they'd head up for the weekend and meet the boys.
7. She was 21.
8. Because she married a French man.
9. Yes. Paris made her dream when she was a child.

B.
1. Her best memories are her birthday parties.
2. They found a little lake with lots of frogs
3. Her cousin
4. A toy: a jigsaw
5. Her favourite dress
6. She went to the park to feed the duck