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2 CHECK. Choose the correct answer for each question.

1. Why is community radio important in 3. Who was the radio station looking for?
Guatemala?
a. a presenter
a. It provides jobs for people.
b. a musician
b. It helps the Maya culture survive.
c. a teacher
c. It plays a lot of music.
4. What was happening to some Maya
2. What was Angelica doing when she got languages before community radio?
her job on the radio?
a. They were growing.
a. studying her local language
b. They were changing.
b. traveling around Guatemala
c. They were dying.
c. playing traditional music

3 DISCOVER. Complete the exercises to learn about the grammar in this lesson.

A Read the pairs of sentences about the interview from exercise 1 and notice the verbs in bold.
Choose the sentence in each pair that describes an action that was in progress at a certain
time in the past.

1. a. The radio station chose Angelica.
b. Angelica was teaching Tzuthil in the evenings.

2. a. The radio station was looking for a new presenter.

b. They decided to speak to Angelica.

3. a. Several Maya languages were dying.
b. Community radio stations started to present shows in Maya languages.

B Work with a partner. Compare your answers from exercise A. Which verb form is used to
describe actions that were in progress at a certain time in the past?

Two Guatemalan musicians sit
with their instruments.

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