09/12/2023, 10:19 Grammar Talks 2-07 Past Tense - Was / Were
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Grammar Talks 2-07 | Beginner | Past Tense - Be - Was / Were
Life History
Meg and Todd talk about times in their lives.
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Todd: Hey Meg, so let's talk about our life history.
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09/12/2023, 10:19 Grammar Talks 2-07 Past Tense - Was / Were
Meg: Okay, let's do it.
Todd: So first, when were you born?
Meg: I was born in 1984. What about you?
Todd: I was born way before that. I was born in 1969.
Meg: Oh!
Todd: Yeah, a ways ago.
Meg: Not too long ago.
Todd: Yeah, 47 years ago, but yeah.
Meg: Okay, a long time ago.
Todd: Okay, so when did you graduate high school?
Meg: I graduated high school in 2003.
Todd: Oh my gosh. Really!
Meg: What about you?
Todd: Wow, I graduated high school in 1987.
Meg: Ah, when I was three years old.
Todd: Wow, yeah! Ah, we were probably about the same intelligence level about that
time.
Meg: No, that's not true.
Todd: And when did you graduate from college?
Meg: I graduated from college in 2010. When did you graduate from college?
Todd: I graduated from college in 1993, so like you I took a little extra time to graduate.
Meg: Yeah, I took more time than normal.
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Todd: And when did you get your first job?
Meg: I got my first job when I was 17 years old, I think. When I was still in high school.
Todd: What did you do?
Meg: I worked at a wedding shop, a wedding dress shop, so I helped to assist the
customers and clean the dresses.
Todd: That's a cool job.
Meg: Ah, it wasn't so great actually.
Todd: Why?
Meg: Because brides can get a little crazy.
Todd: I can imagine.
Meg: What about you? When was your first job?
Todd: Well, my first unofficial job was when I was 13. I was a dishwasher.
Meg: Oh, at a restaurant?
Todd: Yeah, and I think it was illegal because I was 13. But yeah, I was a dishwasher.
But then my first official job was at McDonald's.
Meg: Oh, what did you do there?
Todd: I made the filet-o-fish. But I got fired.
Meg: Oh, why?
Todd: Also, again I lied about my age. So actually wait, I was 14, and I lied and said I
was 15 and they fired me, but I worked there for three months.
Meg: Oh, and you got paid?
Todd: And I got paid.
Meg: Well, that's good at least.
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Todd: It was good times. Good times.
Meg: (Laughter)
Todd: OK, so when did you meet your best friend?
Meg: I met my best friend in 2007, so about 10 years ago. What about you?
Todd: Oh gosh, I met my best friend in high school, so I was a sophomore, a second
year student, so that was 1984 or 1985.
Meg: Wow! So you've been best friends for a long time.
Todd: A long time, yeah, yep. So how about phones? When did you get your first
phone?
Meg: Hmm! I think I got my first phone when I was also 17, the same year I had my first
job. It was my first cell-phone, was that year. What about you?
Todd: Well, I got my first phone also when I was 17, but it was a real phone. My parents
gave me my own phone line in my house, so I had a phone in my room. Back then that
was common in the 80s, so young high school people would have their own phone in
their house.
Meg: Yeah, some of my friends had that when I was growing up also, but I wasn't lucky
enough to get my own phone until I could pay for it myself.
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