GRAMMAR 4 ★ ★ Choose the correct option to complete the text.

909
Present and past habits
Educate Yourself
Results a mess?Try not to stress.You can still find success.
Teachers and parents1will/ are always telling young people
how important it is to work hard at school. Of course, this is
cSHOW WHAT YOU KNOW good advice, but some very successful people *1 2peiormed/
were always performing m y poorly as students and still went
1 Complete the sentences about present and past on to achieve great things.
habits with one word. Deep thinker Albert Einstein3used/ use to get poor grades
Graham always in French at school.Though brilliant in other subjects, he
used to pay struggled to master French and failed his college entrance
exams as a result.
attention
Actor Orlando Bloom45 6
didn't use to/ wouldn'tM school easy and
in Physics
swould/ will struggle with many subjects as a result of his dyslexia.
lessons. It was
It is important to do your best at school of course, but there are
his favourite clearly other routes to success.
subject.
1 Didn't you
5 ★ ★ ★ Complete the second sentence so that it has
to
a similar meaning to the first. Use the word in capitals.
skip lessons
occasionally when you were at school, Dad? □ I didn't have a large circle of friends at school, but
now that I'm at university I know lots of people. USE
The security guard d o e s ___________unlock the I didn't use to have a large circle of friends at school
school gates until exactly 7:30 a.m. ( ] but now that I'm at university I know lots of people.
1 Holly bites her nails constantly. IS
3 Our French teacher from primary school
H o lly______________________ her nails.
only speak Italian in class. No wonder we didn't
2 Ms Wilson, our neighbour, was very curious - she
learn much!
□! would always ask us a lot of questions. TO
4 Lucy didn't to get on with her brother, Ms Wilson, our neighbour,______________________ very
but things are better now that they are older. curious - she would always ask us a lot of questions.
o
3 Stephen leaves everything until the last minute and
2 Which sentence in Exercise 1 describes a present then panics. WILL
habit? Tick the appropriate box. Step hen______________________ everything until the last
minute and then panic.
3 ★ Complete the dialogues with always and the 4 We picked and ate fresh fruit from the garden when
correct form of the verbs in the box. we were kids. W OULD
W e ______________________ fresh fruit from the garden
hang play put talk tease when we were kids.

Dad: Why can't you two just get on with

each other?
f SHOW WHAT YOU'VE LEARNT
Melanie: Because h e 's always teasing me. 6 Choose the correct answers A -C.
Why can't he just leave me alone? 1 Naomi d id n 't__ to suffer from allergies when she
1 Alice: W ell, it's good to be studious, but Luke lived in the countryside.
A use B used C would
______________________about schoolwork.
2 Scott is not very bright. He _ raise his hand in class
I don't think he has a social life at all.
even when he has no idea of the answer.
Max: Yes, I can see how annoying he is.
A would B always C will
2 Amber: Why did you split up with Richard then, Erin? 3 W henever I stayed at Auntie Freda's, s h e __ always
Erin: Oh, he and his frie n d s____________________ make pancakes for breakfast.
computer games or talking about them. A will B would C used
I hardly ever saw him, and when I did, the 4 ___you use to watch that funny show with the
conversation was boring. puppets? I can't remember its name now.
A Did B Would C Were
3 Paul: I'll do it tomorrow, O K? 5 When they were younger, Ben and Ja m ie __ to walk
Gemma: Oh, Paul. Y o u ______________________things off to school together. Now Jam ie drives.
until tomorrow, or next week, or whatever. A will B used C enjoyed
Why don't you just get it out of the way now? 6 Summer holidays__ to last forever when I was in
primary school.
4 Butcher: W h y ______________________ around here, little
A would B seem C used
dog? Can you smell those sausages? I
don't know how someone so small can eat /6
so much. Com e on then, boy, come here!
GRAMMAR: Train and Try Again page 171
It's your lucky day!
6