ADVANCED 2

UNIT 10
Teacher: Andrea Faría
 Use either For or Ago to complete the sentences
1. three days ago
Rachel arrived in Brazil ________________ (three days)
2. for three days
Rachel has been in Brazil ________________ (three days)
3. Linda and Frank have been married ________________
for 20 years (20 years)
4. 20 years ago
Linda and Frank got married ________________ (20 years)
5. We arrived ________________
ten minutes ago (ten minutes)
6. It started to rain ________________
an hour ago (an hour)
7. Silvia has been studying English ________________
for six months (six months)
8. a few days ago
I bought these shoes ________________ (a few days)
Use either For or Since to create the sentences
She has been there for three days.
1. Pam is in Cuba now. She arrived three days ago. ____________________________________
He has been here since Tuesday.
2. Carlos is here. He arrived here on Tuesday. He… ___________________________________
It’s been raining for an hour.
3. It’s raining. It started an hour ago. It’s been… _____________________________________
I’ve known Sue for two years.
4. I know Sue. I met her two years ago. I’ve ______________________________________
I’ve had a camera since 1999.
5. I have a camera. I bought it in 1999. I’ve ______________________________________
6. Liz is studying medicine at the university. She started three years ago. She has…
______________________________________
She has been studying medicine for three years.
7. Toshi plays the piano. He started when he was seven years old. Toshi has…
He has been playing the piano since he was seven years old.
______________________________________
 Get paper and pen…
And please write one sentence about yourself using
these beginnings:
• I’ve lived…
• I’ve been…
• I’ve been studying…
• I’ve known…
• I’ve had…
 for

during
for from to
In
since
in in
for

in / during
Vocabulary
Historical events
Can you think of events
that truly shaped the
world?
 Get paper and pen, and
let’s transcribe
• ACHIEVEMENT
• ASSASSINATION
• DISCOVERY
• ELECTION
• EPIDEMIC
• NATURAL DISASTER
• REVOLUTION
• TERRRORIST ACT
 Election
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was chosen president
of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the
44th president, and the first African American to be in office.
 Discovery
In 2015, findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provided the
strongest evidence at the time that liquid water flows intermittently on Mars.
 Natural disaster
In 2004, a series of large tsunamis up to 30 metres (100 ft) high were created by
underwater seismic activity. Communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian
Ocean were seriously affected, and the tsunamis killed an estimated 227,898 people in
14 countries.
 Epidemic

While Mercury is remembered more for his

music than for anything, his health status did
in fact become public just days before he died
of complications of AIDS-related pneumonia.
Since the early 1980s, HIV has affected more
than 70 million people
 Revolution
Fidel Castro was the most prominent political leader of Cuba (1959–2008)
who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western
Hemisphere in 1959, becoming a symbol of communism in Latin America.
 Assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was killed on
November 22, 1963. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline when he was
fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald.
 Achievement

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that kill

dangerous bacteria in our bodies that make
us sick. Alexander Fleming discovered the
first antibiotic, penicillin, which he grew
in his lab using mold and fungi. Without
antibiotics, infections like strep throat
could be deadly.
 Terrorist act
On January 7 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi,
forced their way into the offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Armed with rifles, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified
themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
1. There are many people killed by profesional hitmen in
Ecuador a. Achievement
2. The Ecuadorian people chose their actual president 3
years ago b. Assassination

3. I graduated from college 2 years ago

c. Natural disaster
4. There was a huge landslide in Baños and many people
died
d. Discovery
5. In lasts years’ epidemic spead of swine flu many people
received vaccines
e. Epidemic
6. In 2011, the twin towers were destroyed by airplane
attacks f. Election
7. Frederick Bantin was the developer of insulin
Guess the historic event
Terrorist act

Discovery

Assassination

Epidemic

Achievement

Election

Revolution
Natural disaster
 Lastly,

Story vs. History

• Countable • Uncountable
• Imaginary • More factual

• Fiction • Non-fiction
• Narrative • Academic
• It often didn’t really happen • It really happened!
Exercises:
Let me tell you a history / story
The history / story of Egypt is fascinating
This movie is based on a real history / story
That was one really good history / story
The U.S. has a long history / story of violence
I have a history / story test tomorrow
Assignments this week:

• Friday presentation
• Listening exercise for tomorrow
• Unit 9-10 quiz due Friday