Interview your grandparents
1. When were you born?
2. Were you born in a hospital or at home?
3. Where did you use to live? Did you live in the country or in town?
4. Who did you live with when you were a child?
5. Can you describe your mum and dad?
6. Who was more strict, your mum or dad?
7. What were your favourite games and activities?
8. Did your family have big reunions?
School
9. Did you go to school? Did you like it?
10. When did you start going to school?
11. Where was the school?
12. How did you get to school?
13. Did you have to walk to school?
14. What did you learn at school?
15. Did you have to study hard at school?
16. Did you have to do exams?
17. What else did you use to do at school?
18. Did you have to go to school in the afternoon?
19. How old were you when you left school?
20. Why did you leave school?
21. Why didn’t you go to school?
22. Did you have a bicycle when you were a child?
23. Did you get any presents when you were a child?
24. When did you get presents?
25. What sort of presents? Tell me about a present you remember
26. Did you have a radio or TV?
27. When did you get your first radio/TV?
28. When you were a teenager, what time did you have to be home at night?
29. Which are the main differences between children now and then?
Work
30. When did you start to work?
31. What was your first job?
32. How did you get to work?
33. What time did you use to get up in the morning?
34. What time did you finish work?
35. What did you use to do after work?
36. Did you use to work on Saturdays?
37. And on Sundays?
38. Tell me about some important news or facts that happened when you were young
39. How old were you when the Spanish Civil War started?
40. Did you take part in it? In which party?
41. Did you use to travel when you were young?
42. Where did you go? Which countries or towns did you visit?
43. Did you have to travel to another country to work there?
44. Which country did you go to?
45. What difficult things did you have to do when you were young?
46. Which are your best memories?
47. Which are your worst memories?
48. Can you tell me about the three most memorable events in your life?
Adult life
49. When did you get married? How old were you?
50. Did you have a wedding travel? How many children did you have?
51. Which were your priorities when you were young?
52. Which are the main differences between life when you were young and life nowadays?
53. Have you accomplished what you wanted in life?
54. What advice would you like to give me?
