ae AGE | the habitual past m expressions with time 2A My best decade in pairs, ask and answer questions about your interests when you were younger, Use the ideas in the box Music Food TVshows Clothes Gadgets 2 A Read thé (Ex{ about people's past habits. Which of the interests in exercise 1 are mentioned? A eee Ce eee A sign of in eee raieeer ay anoereraitet Se ee eee bf at= Wn ila g =< emeeets ere unre ayss meee ee 2000s: Glee 1990s: Cooking shows ln the 19905, Icouldnt afford to eat out very often, so had to lesm how to cook. ‘Cooking shows were big then, 0 when | yas making dinner | used to pretend | ‘was hosting my own showl often invited a flend to“coshost”and we would usea ‘camcorder to video our‘cooking show's ‘only a matter of time lefore one of those videos appears on YouTube. (B0b, Boston) For some time in my teens | watched itin bed tllate at night. My mom was always ‘coming into my room, though, sol would ‘iuickly change channels and pretend ‘was watching National Geographic. As the “intellectual‘in the family.| had a reputation ‘to maintain, and Gle, with allits strange dance moves and questionable song choices, wasano-nc. lt sill influences so ‘My dad used to bea huge Abba fan at ‘one time so grew up listening to thelr ‘songs, and eventually got hooked, too. ‘My friends were always teasing me, of ‘course, but bet some af them secretly ‘sang along to Dancing Queen in the showed! stil havea Spotiy playlist with all their hits, which fd memorized atthe many ofthe"teen shows'we watch today. time. (Mary, Chicago) (Raul, do Paulo} B Look at the expressions with time in bold in the text. Match 1-4 with meanings a~d, 1 from time to time 8 then 2 for some time b sometimes 3. (only) amatter of time Ibefore} © fora period of time 4 atthe time certain that something will happen bulary practice: expressions with time, page 94 A Complete the sentences about the text in exercise 2. Use past forms and include adverbs if necessary, Gilee in bed til ate at night. 7T aels when her mom entered her room, Be was the host of a cooking show. Rous dad weet Jy PY a huge Abba fan. Raul’s friends Wy YP him. Look at the sentences in exercise 3A and complete the rules below. Then read the Grammar box. to / Would is used to talk about past states, 2 The simple pasteaa / can't talk about past habi 3. The past continuous with always is used to talk about annoying / positive past habitsie habitual past m expressions with time | LANGUAGE fam the habitual past used to and woula: Po? Past continuous with always: fused to play video gamesallthe time. {would spend My litle ister was always interrupting us, Ard she was hours in front ofthe commuter always making nose 100 Did you use tobe good student? dida’tuse to Uke would. had: studying atl deat choc Simple past: 1 ha) eaten 2 whole ba by the tin {ln play ame hor sports when ! was younger. {hated s Look! You cannot use would to talk about past states: When twas younger, I was/used to be a huge fan of horror movies. NOT Swett be Go to Grammar practice: the habitual past, page 78 4 A @28 Pronunciation pronounced \se and used Listen to the conversation. Notice how use and used are A Can | use your phone? My battery is dead, and | need to call my sister in Spain. BB Yeah, sure, But didn't you use to Skype her? That way yau can use the camera t [A Well | used to have a Skype account. but | haven't used itn years, and I've forgotten my password! B Here, use my phone, instead. . B (23 Listen again and repeat, Practice the conversation in pairs. 5 Read the opinion poll. Decide if one or both options are possible. 2010s 6votes —// Mate “The early 2000s “were vould be amazing, but I can't stand the si they're paying on the radio these days. In the 2000s, | "was always spending / used ‘hours listening to the radio, and at least 7 out of 10 songs ware good. But now ..” (Linda, San Franciseo) 20008 +o vores 1 was a teenager in the 2000s, and | remember how I Swas always complaining / would con about bands like Coldplay and Keane. Atleast the 2000s gave us Lady Gaga, who thad./ ys6d to have her frst hit it 2009," (Juan, Mexico) em TESST SESSEC TOO TA 19908 15 votes vai “i grew up in the 1990s, and | Siked { used to Ike rock and heavy metal. But my parents Sused to We {stem would stan to people Ike Celine Dion and Maieh Carey ~ every single Gay, What a Righiare the 19905 were for me!” (Cynthia, New York) : oe castors A Go to Communication practice: Student A page 108, Student B page 112, 6 inpairs, ask each other at least three questions. Use the simple past, used to, would, and the past continuous with always in your answers, i music? ; | movies? you think the.e}1990s—-t were good fom same? 2000s peal soccer? P | | | teshion? 3 : | think the 1980s were tertible for fashion. People used to wear some really weird clothes! } | Personal Best | Write a paragraph about when you were a child. Use a variety of past forms.2A The habitual past D22 used to love rock music, but now ike re Did you use to play an instrument when you were young? | didn’ use to play soccer, but | would go to games used to spend alot of time at home, | would watch TV every afternoon. | ners were always yelling at me because |was late She'd often go running ate school, She'd also gone running that evening. used to and would (40° p02" 9? fe use used to + infinitive to tak about states or habits that were true in the past but sre not ue non Habits are rpested actions sed o hate classical musi but ow love She used ogo swimming every dy naffative stlements, sed in use to ends wth ust he other equa verbs inthe simple pst Ueto isincomect We used to spend every evening ouside inthe summer. NOT We se to spendevery evening outside inthe summer We form negative statements and questions without ad, ike lhe simple past ers. Wie may lso use iver used to instead of di use to, {lite to lite classical music. NOT tn used othe eassicl music Did you use g lve around here? NOT Bid you used dive around here? Inever used fo watch YouTube videos but row iether. citer ue amu of sed to ar woul hen we describe ras habs We start with use fo and continue wih would. \y'\° Qu weekend and go swimming thre or four times a week We donot use would to describe tates. Irstead we use used 0 othe slept Fhotelusea to hat vegetables when las. id. NOT would hate vegetables wrentiaranie: pal! \ Bw) p\gGh Simple past ‘We may use eter use or the simple past when te habitual mening is lea. We tte use arixture of sedto andthe simple past to describe past stuations. Ici tuse to play any sports when Iwas younger. hated sports Wie use the simple past nokusedo when we tak about single tons or ay how many times something happened. J. yt ‘\o ‘Niue aM elt 5 We went to Ri tree times when | was young. NOT WeusedtogotoRo tree times when twas young Past continuous with always an se the past continuous with aay to show that someting Nappened repeatedly of to talk about things that were annoying, remember her well She was always siting outside when | went by. I never had any privacy. My brother was always listening to my conversations. would vs. had nen we tlk about the past, the contraction ‘d may mean the habitual past would the past perfect had. Be careful not to confuse them. Every evening, we'd go for a swim in the lake. |= we would) We'd just gotten out ofthe water when we saw my sister. [= we had) 1. Choose the comect options to complete the sentences. 4 Lusedto/ wouldve visting my grandparents. They were such wonderful people 2 You're such a good tennis player. Did you used / use to play when you were younger” $5 lused to go | wentto Europe twice when |wasin college, but haven't been since 4 Lusedta | would newly neighbors, but don't rw 5 My brother and were alvaysargung | were arguing (5 ea \when we were younger —_ 6 Wedlidot used didtuse to goon vacation very often. 7 Wy sister used to | would have aie that she rode / all was riaing everywhere Seco £8 Myfriends and! never used / use to play baseball afte : school because we had nowhere to ply. — 7 2. Rewite the undetined words Usa pronoun 4 had woul } 1 Everyday dW! olay games. 2d. hed fgotenhow much inves ogp fishing We'd Wel'/|_ go fishing al the time whe a 5 | sed to realy enjoy reading, nd 4 atleactone bok aweek 4 ys tye wees and sh We hod wear them to paties '3 We had ng money or he bus home because we'd W213 spent. our money once cream 6 That sugpmer my brother was going ou wih Tere Hed NO met her in college and was crazy abouthe ‘come home from school a 3 Complete the text witha form of use to, woul, the ‘simple past, othe past continuous wit always, and vets inthe bo. There may be more than one ans ‘complain go x2) not listen [ove make stay take | Men tvasa cid mya * GO Op oeyanener te See aba cr Parkin the stat of Virginia. We =_4alK €. at alle gabin inthe woods and everyday we SANE _on tong nature walks. My younger ste ejy them much, nd she that she wasted. However, my colder sister and)|® 4 ‘being outdoors all day. We ®_J oC to the eports of bears because ent ay tr thee ee a When we wenttobed, we? M1 suree Paseo Nebr itso much that we * Ae ay AA back there at least ten times, Go back to page 13fem VOCABULARY PRACTICE 2A Expressions with time 1 ©2.1 Match the words in bold 1-14 with ther definitions a-n, Listen and check. From time to time, | get really nervous and bite my nails during tests. What can | do? (Luke, London) aU Ihave cheese twice a day, for both breakfast and dinner. It's 2only a matter of time before my cholesterol ‘900s up. (Emily, Manchester) || 5waste a lot of time reading readers’ comments when | read the newspaper online. | don’t know why! {Tomko, New Yor) ~~ | novar seem to finish my exams because | keep going over my answers. Maybe it “time myself wile takongpracton exame wil hep. (Roberta, Toronto) "Take your time, Where's the fire?” (Mike, Bostor) | always eat too quickly! My mother was always saying, [ike to Spass the time just looking out the window. | know I should be doing my homework, instead! (Peter, Seattle) '’m almost never “en time in the moring. And so I'm never in time for my first class! (Maria, Puerto Fico) [Pm always telling my sister to run so we can get to the bus stop *in no time. And then, of course, we wait ‘and wait while | tell her the bus is coming 'any time now. (Julle, San Francisco) ‘For some time, I've been playing computer games every night until two or three in the morning, | always ‘eel exhausted when I'm at work! (Torn, Melbourne) When | was a teenager | always used fo listen to rap music. ‘At the time, it really got on my dad's nerves. (Matt, Oxford) My husband says | never make time for him. | suppose | should go to the soccer game with him occasionally. (Sara, Madrid) Our city has been demolishing old movie theaters “fone at a time, It's so sad. (Joe, Sydney) a donthury bh in those days, occasionally i onschedule Fy € forquitea long period of time! 4 don'tuse time well_ 4 verysoon_f ¢ m spend time eatlyenough for something_{/_ 4 1 one by one 1 {certain Fappen at some point inthe near future _“ ‘measure how long take todo something 9 fast 1 reoxgarize your time for something/someane 2. Complete the sentences with the corect form of an expression with time from exercise 1 1 de you ready forthe math? Beet Lac, 0° °C andl an 20min just overwo hous! 2 Alimoptendy lta ae shower are soul + We don't have to be there until 730, 5A Toms bln to work lot Hes acing tose hijo B 1know. SO is boss fires him. 4 A How's your grandmother? he dyn B Alitle beter, thanks. She can't go out, but she MOS Ser * watching Tv. 5 A Hey, doe, Are you busy? Can | come in? 1 Sue. In fact, you're just 1.0 £21 someot chocolate! 6 A Mylitle brother's always |, Playing video games 'B Well he's only 12. m sure he'll develop other interest 7 Where cid you and your wife meet? : B In Paris in 1998. We were both teaching atthe university ae 8 So, do you know your neighbors well? B Yes, we do. We have ther over for dinner