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Unit 444444444 LIFE IN THE PAST

Unit
Unit

THIS UNIT INCLUDES:
GETTING STARTED VOCABULARY

Preserving the past Life in the past
PRONUNCIATION
Stress on auxiliary verbs in sentences

GRAMMAR
Used to: review
Wishes for the present

SKILLS
• Reading for specifi c information about
children’s pastimes in the past
• Making comments on or expressing
opinions about facts in the past
• Listening for specifi c information about
school life in the past
• Writing a description of how children in the
past studied without technology
COMMUNICATION
Describing past practices

1 Listen and read.
Father: This is a present for you, son.
Father: Sure.
Nguyen: A kite! How cool! Thank you, dad.
Nguyen: I wish there were movie teams like that now.
Father: I made it for you, just like your grandfather
used to make one for me. Father: Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
Nguyen: Is it a family tradition? Nguyen: Then how did you get to know about the
Father: Yes, for generations. world outside?
Father: We had the radio; actually, only wealthy
Nguyen: I love it. So when you were a kid, what did
you use to do for entertainment? people did. The whole village used to
listen to the news programme through a
Father: Oh, it was all very simple back then. loudspeaker.
We didn’t have television or the Internet.
A mobile movie team used to come once Nguyen: Wow, I can’t imagine that.
every two months, and everyone from the Father: I know. The world’s changed a lot, son. It’s
village would be there. The children were much easier now.
always early, trying to get a place near the Nguyen: Do you miss the past, dad?
screen. Father: I suppose I do. Sometimes I wish I could go
Nguyen: I suppose it was a special occasion, wasn’t it? back to that time.

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