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Remembering the past

As she celebrates her 100th birthday, Maria Morales Cabrillo talks to Youth2day magazine about growing up.

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My family didn’t have much money, but my brothers and I had what we needed. We didn’t feel poor. We were like

everyone else around here. We used to get together with the other children and play in the street every day. We all got on well. It was a nice place to be. Everything used to happen in that street. I got to know my husband in the street. He lived opposite us. When we got engaged we had a party in the street. It was wonderful. It’s changed a lot. It’s a lot quieter now. e children don’t play outside. I know their lives are busier, but

I don’t think the kids are happier. And they’re fatter than we were! I can’t believe that so many children are overweight these days.

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We used to eat three times a day and no more. We had a much healthier diet. Lots of vegetables, some meat and very little sugar. ere didn’t use to be junk food like crisps and burgers and no one needed to go on a diet or get t. Everyone on our street, children and adults, used to work so hard.

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It wasn’t all better. Lots of people smoked. We didn’t know how bad smoking was. My husband was a regular smoker. Fortunately, he gave up smoking when our children were born. 4

My husband used to work in the local shoe factory. He worked hard but didn’t get paid very much. It was di cult sometimes. People are richer and their lives are easier now, especially with the Internet. But our lives were happier then. I wouldn’t change my life then for anything.

1 READING

aRead the magazine article. Match the numbered paragraphs 1–4 with the titles a–d.

bRead the magazine article again and underline the correct answers.

Maria thinks …

1the streets are / used to be much quieter now / in the past.

2the children are / used to be happier now / in the past.

3people have / used to have healthier diets now / in the past.

4more people smoke / used to smoke now / in the past.

5people are / used to be richer now / in the past.

cRead the magazine article again and tick ( ) the correct answers.

1Maria’s family …

a were very poor.

b had better lives than their neighbours.

c were normal for where they lived.

2There was a party in the street …

a before Maria got married. b when Maria got married.

c when Maria met her husband.

3People didn’t use to go on a diet or need to get fi t because …

a they didn’t like doing exercise. b they preferred to eat junk food. c they worked so much.

4People used to smoke a lot because …

a it was much cheaper.

b they didn’t understand it was dangerous. c you could smoke and buy cigarettes

everywhere.

5Maria thinks …

a richer people are happier.

b she would prefer to grow up now.

c the Internet has made people’s lives easier.

dWrite about how your life has changed over the past ten years. Write about what you used to do and what you do now. Write about:

•your education

•your free time

•your friends and family.

2 LISTENING

a 7.4 Listen to the conversation. Complete the table with the names in the box.

Dale George  Lisa Baker  Martin Dowd

Mike Andrews  Stephen Downes

Review and extension

1 GRAMMAR

Correct the sentences.

1Ronaldo is one of the most famous footballers of the world.

Ronaldo is one of the most famous footballers in the world.

2I think São Paulo is the most biggest city in Brazil.

3My brother didn’t used to like coffee when he was a teenager.

4This exercise is more easier than the last one.

5I’m studying harder this year as last year.

6London is the expensivest city in the UK.

2 VOCABULARY

Correct the sentences.

1I think you should give out smoking if you want to get fit.

I think you should give up smoking if you want to get fit.

2You’ll have to get a diet if you want to lose weight.

3My brother has got a new job and he gets paying very well.

4She loves her boyfriend and I think they’ll get engage soon.

5While he was at university, he got to knowing Sarah.

b 7.4 Listen to the conversation again and complete the sentences. Write one word in each space.

cWrite about your friends and family ten years ago. Remember to include:

•what they used to do

•what they used to look like

•what they used to be like.

3 WORDPOWER  change

Match 1–8 with a–h to make sentences.

1g   The waiter hasn’t given you

2  OK, let’s go and play tennis. You can change

3  If she doesn’t like the dress, she can take it back

4  When you go away on holiday, it’s better to change

5  We always go to Italy. Let’s go to Greece

6  You should keep

7  To fly from London to Sydney, you usually have to

8  She planned to take the train to Edinburgh, but at the last minute she changed

asome change in your purse for the bus.

bthis summer for a change.

cyour money at a bank, not at the airport.

dher mind and took the plane instead.

echange planes in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur.

fand change it for another one.

gthe right change. You gave him £20, not £10.

hinto your shorts and trainers in the toilets.

REVIEW YOUR PROGRESS

Look again at Review your progress on p.76 of the Student’s Book. How well can you do these things now?

3 = very well    2 = well    1 = not so well

I CAN …

talk about life-changing events

describe health and lifestyle changes

talk to the doctor

write a blog about an achievement.

1 VOCABULARY Art and music;

Common verbs in the passive

aLook at the types of art, music and literature and label the pictures.

b Match 1–8 with a–h to make sentences.

1c In the fi lm The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne was

2 The 19th-century novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina were

3 The fi rst Star Wars fi lm was

4 The opera Carmen by the composer Bizet was fi rst

5 The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was

6 The movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks, was

7 The iPod was

8 You can see Guernica in a special gallery in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. It was

aset in the town of Verona in Italy.

bperformed in Paris in 1875.

cplayed by Matt Damon.

ddirected by George Lucas in 1977.

epainted by Pablo Picasso in 1937.

fwritten by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

gbased on the true story of NASA’s third mission to the moon.

hdesigned by Apple in 2001.

2 GRAMMAR The passive: present and past simple

aComplete the sentences about the Statue of Liberty. Use the present or past simple passive forms of the verbs in brackets.

The Statue of Liberty

to the United States by the people of

before the rest of the statue

7(design). At fi rst, there wasn’t enough money to fi nish the rest of the statue. Finally, enough money

8(fi nd). Over 120,000 people helped to pay for the statue – most of them gave less than $1. The rest of the

by over 3.2 million tourists every year.

bRewrite the sentences. Use the passive. Say who does/did the action only if this information is important.

1They make Porsche cars in Germany.

Porsche cars are made in Germany.

2They built the Eiffel Tower in 1889.

3George Orwell wrote the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949.

4They held the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

5Steven Spielberg directed the fi lm Schindler’s List in 1993.

6They grow the best coffee in Colombia.

7They sold two million new cars in the UK last year.

8This factory produces 5,000 bicycles every year.

1 GRAMMAR

Present perfect with for and since

aComplete the exchanges. Use the present perfect forms of the verbs in brackets and for or since.

bUnderline the correct words to complete the sentences.

1 We ’ve lived / lived here for 10 years – from 1964 to 1974. 2 I know / ’ve known Sam since we were at school together. 3 My daughter ’s been / was in the USA for six weeks, but

she’s fl ying home from San Francisco tomorrow.

4 She had / ’s had a headache since she woke up this morning. 5 I ’ve been / was in Madrid since 2012, but before that I

worked / ’ve worked in Hong Kong for two years.

6 John had / ’s had a motorbike since he was 16 years old.

2 VOCABULARY Sports and activities

aWhich verb do we use to talk about each sport and activity? Complete the table with the words in the box.

gymnastics squash golf surfing yoga volleyball

b 8.1 Listen and check.

seeing all the beautiful fi sh under the water.

3 PRONUNCIATION Word stress

a 8.2 Listen to the words and tick ( ) the stressed syllable in each word.