2. Read the text and check your ideas.

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Jeanne Calment, the person with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1875, in Arles, France. Her parents ran a shop in the town and she worked there when she was a teenager. While she was serving in the shop in 1888, she met Vincent van Gogh, who had come in to buy pencils. She thought he was ‘dirty, ugly and badly dressed’!

In 1896, at the age of 21, she married Fernand Calment and then gave birth to a daughter, Yvonne. Fernand was very wealthy so Jeanne never needed to work. She lived in Arles for the rest of her life, dying on 5 August 1997 at the age of 122.

So how did Jeanne manage to live so long? The French have their own theories, noting that she ate more than two pounds of chocolate a week and rode a bicycle until she was 100!

4. Complete this sentence in three different ways using the three tenses in the Learn this! box. Use the verb learn. How does the meaning change?

(Hoàn thành câu này theo ba cách khác nhau bằng cách sử dụng ba thì trong phần Learn this! hộp. Sử dụng động từ học. nghĩa thay đổi như thế nào?)

When Tom left school, he _____ / _____ / _____ to drive.

6. Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs below.

(Hoàn thành đoạn văn với dạng quá khứ đơn, quá khứ tiếp diễn hoặc quá khứ hoàn thành của các động từ dưới đây)

be     be     become     die     get      leave     live     meet     not stop     retire     say     work

Japan is the country with the most centenarians: over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura the man with the longest lifespan ever, (1) __________ born in 1897. Kimura (2) __________ school at fourteen and (3) __________ a job in a post office. While he (4) __________ there, he (5) __________ his future wife Yae. He (6) __________ a postal worker for 45 years when he (7) __________ in 1962. But he (8) __________ working! He (9) __________ a farmer! In an interview just before he (10) __________ at the age of 116, he said he wasn’t sure why he (11) __________ so long. ‘Maybe it’s thanks to the sun’, he (12) __________. ‘I’m always looking up to the sky!’