Lesson 2

Listening

2. Discuss the questions in pairs.

2. Do you think it is important to learn about the history of your family? why?

Yes, because the history helps you to understand them and how your family live/have lived.

3. Listen to Talia talking to her grandmother and answer the questions.

1. Have Grandfather and Grandma lived in their house for a long time?

Yes.

2. How do you know?

Because her grandmother mentioned that she has lived in the house she lives in now since she got married, which was fifty years ago.

4. Listen again and answer the questions.

1. When did Talia's grandmother move to the house she lives in now?

When she got married.

2. How long has Talia's drandmother and grandfather been married?

She has been married for 50 years.

3. When did Talia's grandmother and grandfather meet?

They met when they were ten years old.

4. When did Talia's mum and dad move to their house?

They moved in 2008.

5. Where did they live before that?

They lived in the grandmother's house.

Language

5. Look at these sentences from Talia's conversation and choose the correct word.

1. We use for / since for a period of time (e.g. six years, a month, two days).

2. We use for / since for a point in time (e.g. 1990, one o'clock, yesterday).

6. Complete the sentences with for or since.

1. Lama has had her phone for two years.

2. Mr Sabri has been at this school since 2020.

3. Hatem has lived in Alexandria for many years.

4. Malak has been friends with Injy since they were children.

5. Fady has had a headache for about an hour.

6. Kamal and Lina have been married since last year.