Used to | Eng II Unit 7B

​Instructions

You will be put into teams and you will listen to some songs that contain examples of used to.

Listen to all five song fragments and make a list of all five examples.
You only have to identify used to + verb.

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Listen and identify used to + verb. Number your answers:

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

6. 6.

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Read the prompt and complete the sentences using your own ideas.

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Read the prompt and complete the sentences using your own ideas. Use 'used to' in positive or negative form.

Before we had cars …

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Before we had cars …Before there were mobile phones …

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Before we used credit cards …

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Before we used credit cards …

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Before there were TVs …

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Read the prompt and complete the sentences using your own ideas. Use 'used to' in positive or negative form.

Before there were TVs …

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Before we had computers …

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Before there was fast food …

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Read the prompt and complete the sentences using your own ideas. Use 'used to' in positive or negative form.

Before we had fridges …

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Before we had online shopping …

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I ______ (be) an actor, but now I’m studying to be a teacher.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

Sam _______(eat) meat. He was a vegetarian.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

Laura told me she hasn’t always been an architect. What _______(she, do)?

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I only see Margot at Christmas now. We _____(see) each other three times a year.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

She ______ (drive), but now she drives to work every day.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

_________ (you, play) video games when you were younger?

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I ______ (play) a lot of sports but now I play football, basketball and tennis

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I always ______ (bake) at the weekend, but I don’t anymore.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

We _____ (speak) English. We only started learning it two years ago.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

John _________ (smoke), but he stopped because he felt too unhealthy.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

Ken told me Amber and Ashley were in a band at university. _________ (they, sing) together?

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I don’t live at home now, but I _____ (live) with my parents.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I know you like rock music now. What _______ (you, listen) to when you were younger?

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in brackets.

I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables now, but I ________ (like) many of them when I was a child.

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A smaller version of a river is a

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A _____ is smaller than a mountain.

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A ________ is bigger than the woods.

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You can relax on the _______ if you don't want to swim in the sea,

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The ocean is ________ than the sea.