This document provides examples of how to use the phrase "used to" to talk about past habits and situations that are no longer true. It includes examples of sentences using "used to" about things from hundreds of years ago, sentences comparing past and present habits, and questions using "used to" to talk about the past. The document aims to demonstrate proper usage of "used to" for discussing finished or changed situations in the past.
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This document provides examples of how to use the phrase "used to" to talk about past habits and situations that are no longer true. It includes examples of sentences using "used to" about things from hundreds of years ago, sentences comparing past and present habits, and questions using "used to" to talk about the past. The document aims to demonstrate proper usage of "used to" for discussing finished or changed situations in the past.
This document provides examples of how to use the phrase "used to" to talk about past habits and situations that are no longer true. It includes examples of sentences using "used to" about things from hundreds of years ago, sentences comparing past and present habits, and questions using "used to" to talk about the past. The document aims to demonstrate proper usage of "used to" for discussing finished or changed situations in the past.
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This document provides examples of how to use the phrase "used to" to talk about past habits and situations that are no longer true. It includes examples of sentences using "used to" about things from hundreds of years ago, sentences comparing past and present habits, and questions using "used to" to talk about the past. The document aims to demonstrate proper usage of "used to" for discussing finished or changed situations in the past.
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We use used to + infinitive for finished habits and situations:
Things that were true, but are not now.
1. Look at the picture and write sentences about people hundreds of years ago. Begin (Most) people used to or (Most) people didn't use to. Or a lot of people used to
Example: Be farmers Most people used to be farmers.
a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h)
Have cars. ____________________________________________
Travel on foot or on horses ________________________________ Go to school. ___________________________________________ Learn to read __________________________________________ Live in castles. _________________________________________ Live very long. __________________________________________ Watch TV. ____________________________________________ Work very long hours ____________________________________
2. Make sentences about past and present habits and situations:
Example: John / rugby / tennis John used to play tennis. Now he
plays rugby. a) Ann / study German / French b) John / live Lisbon / London. c) Joe / driver / mechanic d) Ann / coffee / tea e) Mark / lots of girlfriends / married
3. Make questions. Use used to
Example: Where / go to school? Where did you use to go to school?
a) play tennis _____________________________ b) where / work ___________________________ c) go to a lot of parties ______________________ d) Enjoy your work _________________________ 4. Write sentences about your past. a) _____________________________________ b) _____________________________________ c) _____________________________________ d) _____________________________________ e) _____________________________________