Lesson 3: Life lessons (pre-class)

Task 1. You are going to watch a video called 'Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds' What do you expect to hear? What might people talk about?
Watch the first part of the video (from 0'00 to 3'22) and check your ideas.

Task 2. Watch the same part of the video (from 0'00 to 3'22) again ignoring the subtitles and fill in the gaps with the words you hear. Now look at the sentences and think about how to answer the questions below.

1. I think

all that I wanted to do.

2. I've

now for thirty-eight years.

3. I've

unlucky, touch wood.

4. I

in Czechoslovakia when I was a young girl.

And I

with my grandparents because my father was a prisoner of war.

5. I don't think there's anything I really need to do because

practically everything that I ever

to do in the past.

1. How many different verb forms do you see?
2. Why are they used?
3. What's the difference between them in terms of their form and meaning?