OUR GRANDPARENTS TOLD US...

Do you often sit down and have a quiet chat with your grandpa and grandma? This activity will provide you with the opportunity to visit your grandparents or phone them. The aim is to find out relevant information about their lives to share in the classroom. 

• First, go through the questions. 
• Then select those that most attract you. Feel free to add any other questions you have in mind. 

• Next, interview your grandpa or grandma. 

• Write an essay reporting his or her answers. 
• Finally, write a comment including the most emotional, striking or interesting things they told you.

Life Interview. Questions

1.-What year were you born? On what date? Did your parents tell you anything about the day you were born?

2.-Where were you born?

3.-Why were you given the first (and middle) name(s) that you have?

4.-What’s the most vivid memory of your chilhood?

5.-What was the apartment or house like that you grew up in? How many bedrooms did it have? How many bathrooms?

6.-Can you describe the neighbourhood you grew up in?

7.-Tell me about your parents. Who was stricter: your mother or your father?

8.-How many brothers and sisters do you have? When were they born? What memories do you have of each of them from when you were growing up?

9.-What do you remember about your grandparents?

10.-Did you have any pets?

11.-What were you like as a child? Shy? Extrovert? Naughty? A good boy/girl? What did you like to eat? What were your favorite toys or games?

12.-What did you use to wear?

13.-Did you get any pocket money? How much? Did you spend it right away, or save it? What did you buy?

14.-What kind of school did you go to? Were you a good student? What was your favorite subject or your least favorite? Who were your friends? Who was your favorite teacher and why?

15.-Did you have any heroes or role models when you were a child?

16.-How did you spend your summer holidays? What were your favorite summer activities?

17.-What was the best gift you remember receiving as a child?

18.-What did you want to be when you grew up?

19.-What big world events do you remember from the time you were growing up?

20.-What inventions do you most remember?

21.-What’s different about growing up today from when you were growing up?

22.-When you were a teenager, what did you do for fun? Did you have a favorite spot to “hang out”? What time did you have to be home at night? Did you ever get into any trouble?

23.-What did you like to wear? How did your parents feel about the way you talked and what you wore?

24.-When did you learn how to drive? Who taught you? What was your first car like?

25.-What did you do when you finished school?

26.-What was your first job? What did you like or not like about it?

27.-How did you meet your spouse? What did you like about him/her?

28.-What do you remember about me when I was born and was a child?

29.-Do you have any hobbies or special interests? Do you enjoy any particular activity? What’s your typical day like now?

30..-If you could have three wishes, what would they be? If you won 1 million euros tomorrow, what would you do with the money? If you had the power to solve three or four problems in the world, what would they be and why?