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Those Were The Days




Downloadable worksheets:
Grammar Through Songs: Those Were The Days
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 107

 
Lyric of the "Those were the days"(Simple past tense)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 17

 
Mary Hopkin: Those were the days (used to + infinitive & would + infinitive)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 12

 
those were the days my friend
Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 9

 
Those were the days my friend
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-14
Downloads: 9

 
Those were the days
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 1

 

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Watch the video and do the following exercises.
Write in or choose the missing words.
Once upon a , there was a 
Where we  raise a  or two
Remember how we  away the hours
Think of all the great things we  do
Unscramble the lines of the Chorus
  We'd sing and dance forever and a day
  For we were young and sure to have our way
  Those were the days, my friend
   We'd fight and never lose
  We thought they'd never end
  We'd live the life we'd choose
La La La La La La �..
Write in the missing prepositions
Then, the busy years went rushing  us
We lost our starry notions  the way
If,  chance, I�d see you  the tavern,
We'd smile  one another and we'd say
Chorus
Write in the correct forms of the verbs in brackets
Just tonight, I (stand) outside the tavern
Nothing  (seem) the way it  (be)
In the glass, I  (see) a strange reflection
(be) that lonely woman really me?
Chorus
Write in the missing words.
Through the , there came familiar laughter
I saw your  and heard you call my 
Oh, my friend, we're  but no wiser
For in our , the  are still the same
Chorus
                                                    
WOULD / USED TO / SIMPLE PAST
Choose the correct verb forms to complete the following sentences.
  • They  to the beach yesterday.
  • Jerry  dinner for himself when he was single.
  • We  a very important test last week.
  • I  very fat, but I  10 kilos in high school.
  • She  extremely beautiful when she was young.
  • When she was a child, she  her holiday in a village every year.
  • Jackie  a dog when she was a child, but now she has a cat.
  • Maggie  a lot of Barbie dolls when she was a child.
  • They  New Year�s Eve with us every year until we .
  • My boyfriend  from university in 2006.
  • Granny  cookies for us when we were kids.
  • My son  when he was a baby.