LANGUAGE FOCUS AND VOCABULARY • Unit 1

used to Popular interests

1 Complete the sentences with used to or use to. 4 Complete the sentences with the words in
We didn’t use to have a car. the box.
1 Abigail wear only skirts.
app ​
fad ​ fan ​followers ​gadget ​
2 Did you work in a supermarket?
games console ​post ​social media
3 Our family eat dinner together.
4 I didn’t buy many gadgets.
Jessie is a fan of John Green. She’s read
5 Dylan be a basketball fan.
all his books.
6 Did Martha go swimming on
1 My friends often their photos
Fridays?
online.
7 When we were kids we play in
2 Louis writes a blog about computer games.
the garden.
He has a lot of who love what he
8 My parents didn’t let me watch
writes about.
Star Wars.
3 People stopped wearing loom bands after 2015
because they were only a  .
Past continuous 4 Erin often uses this to make notes
2 Order the words to complete the sentences. on her smartphone.
5 A Fitbit is a which tells you how
(laughing / were / you)
much exercise you do every day.
Why were you laughing?
6 When it rains we stay at home and play video
1 (chatting / she / was)
games on a  .
to her friends.
7 I don’t often text my friends. I usually use
2 (reading / were / you)
to communicate with them.
this book?
3 (not / were / eating)
Jude and Ben pizza. Fashion
4 (singing / I / was) 5 Tick (✓) the clothes that you wear on your legs
too loud? or feet.
5 (not / listening / was) jeans  ✓ 6 jacket 
He to the radio.
1 boots  7 shirt 
6 (it / raining / was)
2 hoodie  8 trainers 
last night.
3 shorts  9 socks 
4 trousers  10 hat 
Past simple and past continuous
5 skirt 
3 Choose the correct words.
We are / were watching TV when the phone
rang / was ringing.
1 When Dave arrived / was arriving home,
his mum was / were making the dinner.
2 While I did / was doing my homework,
I did listen / was listening to some music.
3 I was / were buying a hoodie when I
met / was meeting my friend.
4 When they saw / were seeing her, she
is / was crying.
5 Dan didn’t / wasn’t sleeping when we
get / got home.
6 Were you playing / Did you play video games
yesterday at seven o’clock?

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