Write questions about the missing information.

e.g. I lost ___ yesterday, but fortunately ___ found it and gave it back to me.
What did you lose?
question word + auxiliary verb + subject + main verb (object question)
Who found it? Who did find it?
question word + main verb + object (subject question)
1 ___ phoned me last night. She wanted ___.
Who
What
2 I needed some advice, so I asked ___. He said ___.
Who
What
3 I hear that ___ got married last week. ___ told me.
Who
Who
4 I met ___ on my way home this evening. She told me ___.
Who
What
5 Steve and I played tennis yesterday. ___ won. After the game we ___.
Who
What
6 It was my birthday last week. ___ gave me a book and Sam gave me ___.
Who
What

Used to (Student’s book, page 9)

Positive: This hairstyle ___ be popular in the 1950s.

We use used to when we talk about a past / present habit or state which is the
same / different now.

Negative: Most teenagers ___ have mobile phones until the end of the 1990s.
The negative form is ___.

Question: When ___ people ___ wear platform boots?

We form questions with ___.
Complete the text with used to or didn’t use to and the verbs in the box.

be follow have play spend talk watch write buy

Technology has changed a lot since the 1980s.

People used to have TVs, but only a few ___ videos on them.
People ___ very simple games on their computers, but the games ___ colourful or
exciting – very different from today!
My dad ___ to people on his mobile phone, but the phone was really big and
looked very silly.
The internet didn’t exist in the 1980s, so teenagers ___ time online. Instead, they
___ letters to their friends during the school holidays.
They ___ celebrities on social media, either. They ___ buy posters of their
favourite music and film stars.

Can you think of any other differences between the time your parents were young
and today?

Complete the questions with the correct forms of used to.

What ___ (your gran / wear) when she was young?

What toys ___ (you / play) with when you were a child?
Where ___ (your family / live) when you were a child?
___ (you / have) a different hairstyle when you were younger?
What food ___ (you / like) when you were younger but not anymore?
What cartoons ___ (you / watch) when you were a child?
Past perfect and past simple (Student’s book, page 11)

Becky
I visited my gran last weekend and she’d found some of her old photos. They were
interesting. I really liked the hairstyles and fashions, especially the big skirts and
teenage guys in suits!
Things are different now. We go to discos, but we don’t dance to live music there.
Most teenagers aren’t keen on jazz today and nobody watches black-and-white TV
anymore. My gran is sometimes shocked by the bad language and and violence on
TV, but she’s cool about most things. She thinks it’s good that more women study
and work now. She says women have more opportunities now. I want to do media
studies and she’s really interested in that. My gran left school when she was
sixteen and got married when she was twenty. By the time she was twenty-two, she
and my grandad had bought a house.
It’s true that teenagers have got more these days, but I don’t think we’re all spoilt.
Some teenagers can be rude, but I try to be nice and polite to older people because,
like my gran says, I’ll be old one day.

Find in the text two sentences with verb forms in the past perfect tense:

1
2

What is recent past in each sentence?

What is earlier past in each sentence?

Rules:
We use the past perfect to talk about an action that happened before / after another
action in the past.
We use the past simple / past perfect for the more recent action.
We form the past perfect with have / had and a past participle.

Complete the sentences with the verbs in the correct place. Use the past
perfect and past simple form in each sentence.

1 After Josey ___ her driving test, her dad ___ her a car. (buy / pass)
2 We ___ in the café after our exams ___. (celebrate / finish)
3 By the time he ___ ten, David ___ that he wanted to be a doctor. (be / decide)
4 I ___ the school where my dad ___ a student. (be / see)
5 Joe ___ any of my friends before he ___ to the picnic. (come / not meet)
6 Jessie ___ scared because she ___ on a plane before. (not be / feel)
7 They ___ me to hospital because I ___ pneumonia. (catch / take)
8 Before I ___ learning English, I ___ any foreign languages. (start / not speak)

Complete the sentences using the past perfect and your own ideas.

1 We were tired because…

2 By the time we arrived,…
3 We went home after…
4 Before I started learning English,…
5 My friend became crazy about… after…
6 When I got home I realized…

Vocabulary
Complete the sentences with prepositions.
1 Most teenagers aren’t keen ___ jazz.
2 She’s sometimes shocked ___ the bad language and violence on TV.
3 She’s cool ___ most things.
4 She’s really interested ___ that.
5 I’m polite ___ older people.

Complete the sentences with the prepositions in the box and your own ideas.

of about for with from at

1 I’m not very fond ___

2 I never get bored ___
3 These days people are crazy ___
4 I’m not very good ___
5 Marilyn Monroe was famous ___
6 … today are very different ___ those in the fifties,