Everyone has wonderful hopes and dreams for their future. To marry, to be happy, to have children, to write a book, to be successful... It doesn't matter what is your dream: you have to fight for it!
Last term we talked about some biographies and we built our own autobiographies! Because of them, we had to work with past, present and future events. When you were A1A students, you learned the Simple Present Tense and the Present Continuous Tense (you talked about things happening at the moment of speaking). When you were A1B students, you reviewed the Present Continuous Tense and learned how to use it to talk about the future. You also learned the forms GOING TO and WILL to talk about the future. Last term, you recognized the verbs in the Simple Past Tense in the texts you read. You learned that THE VERBS that come from THE LATIN take the regular form and you studied some slides with the irregular forms of the verbs in the Simple Past Tense. Keep on studying and discovering some more verbs in the past: you are going to need them! 😃💪
Now, we are going to know how to write and talk about past situations, habits and actions in the past that no longer occur or exist. You are going to need it!💂💂
Watch the videos below and take notes.
Take your questions to the classroom.
Focus your notes on the following aspects:
a) meaning of "used to";
b) forms in the sentences (aff., neg., interrogative);
c) the way to use it (examples);
d) your doubts.
OBS: Students, don't forget to organize your copybooks this term - you're gonna need them!!
FOR STARTERS: Who are we? Who says whom we might be? What can we be?
Men and women have different roles to play in modern society. Is it true or false?
In the past, men and women generally had their own roles to fulfill and it is somehow still observed today. Men were seen as the breadwinners* of the family and women were in charge of the households* and that meant household expenses, a child's upbringing* and housekeeping were left entirely to them.
Nowadays, these gender roles are increasingly being challenged...
This whole situation also affects your choices for future: you can be whatever you want, you are no longer limited to gender roles, jobs, etc.
Listen to the song "American Dream", by MKTO, on the video below. Study the lyrics, right after the video.
(Do something with your life) Ooh (With your life)
We broke down trying to leave town Flying down the road to change We were born to run, Cali here we come Escape from nowhere USA
Say goodbye to white picket fences Say hello to palm trees and Benzes* They say you gotta fall to have it all
Yeah
We don't want two kids and a wife I don't want a job I just want a life Sometimes the underdogs* rise And the mighty fall
This ain't the same summer song that you used to know 'Cause Jack left Diane thirty years ago* The world is spinning too fast for you and me So tell me whatever happened to the American dream*
I know a girl I met her last night She was fresh off* the plane She whispered in my ear 'Baby, come here. I'll do anything to make a name
Honey, take my hand follow me 'cause I don't wanna hurt you but he does I just wanna give you some real advice
(Listen baby, mm)
Look, never take candy from a stranger And keep your eyes open for danger 'Cause this right here is the twisted paradise*
This ain't the same summer song that you used to know 'Cause Jack left Diane thirty years ago The world is spinning too fast for you and me So tell me whatever happened to the American dream
This ain't the same summer song that you used to know So baby, let's live and die before we're getting old You know that nothing is the way it used to be So tell me whatever happened to the American dream
Na na na...
We we were born to run, Cali here we come Gettin' out of here, baby Let's get out of here
This ain't the same summer song that you used to know 'Cause Jack left Diane thirty years ago The world is spinning too fast for you and me So tell me whatever happened to the American dream
This ain't the same summer song that you used to know So baby, let's live and die before we're getting old You know that nothing is the way it used to be So tell me whatever happened to the American dream
