B1(op) (U2): Used to/Would

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• She used to dance very well when she was a kid.

• My parents used to live in the countryside before getting married.

• My mother drinks a cup of tea after each meal.

• My sister used to go to work on foot last year.

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• People didn't use to wear jeans 100 years ago.

• Children used to play in the streets fifty years ago.

• Students used to go to the library more often forty years ago.

• Parents used to be stricter fifty years ago.

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• My parents used to go on holiday more often before.

• Teenagers didn't use to have mobile phones forty years ago.

• People used to earn more money some years ago.

• People used to smoke in bars and restaurants some years ago.

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• When I was a child I didn't use to like vegetables.

• In the afternoon I used to sit on the front porch of my house and read.

• I used to go to the cinema on Sunday morning.

• I used to wear a uniform when I went to primary school-

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• When the weather was bad I used to stay home and play board games with my family.

• I used to play tennis with my sister when I was a child.

• I used to talk less when I was a child.

• I used to understand maths at primary school.

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• Sylvia used to teach English before retirement.

• We used to know all the people in our neighbourhood before.

• They didn't use to drink coffee at night.

• My parents used to read to me before bed.

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• We used to visit our grandparents at weekends when we were children.

• I used to think of you as somebody who would never hurt me.

• My brother used to always lose when we played chess.

• We used to go out for dinner on Saturdays before the pandemic.

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• My friends and I used to play in the park after school.

• At weekends I used to go fishing with my father.

• My grandad used to tell us stories about his childhood.

• At the beginning of the second century people used to believe that the Earth was the centre of the universe.