USED TO

TEACHER: DOUGLAS SICILIA

 BAINSTORMING

• What’s the grammar

structure?
• How to use this grammar
focus?
• Say some examples.
• What’s the food you used to hate, but
now you like?
• Who used to be your hero when you
were Young? CONVERSATION
• Did you use to get good grades in
Highschool?
• What did you used to play when you
were child?
 Conversation 1
Man: Do you play sports?
CONVERSATION. Woman: I used to play sports in high
LISTEN AND school.
Man: Yeah, I used to play too.
THEN PLAY Woman: Why did you stop?
ROLES Man: No time I guess.
Woman: Yeah, I used to have so
much free time.
Man: Me too! I miss those days.

https://soundgrammar.com/learn/L4-CEFR-B1/L4-03-UsedTo.htm
 Conversation 2
Man: Do you speak French?
CONVERSATION. Woman: I speak it a little. I used to
LISTEN AND use it all the time, but not anymore.
Man: Really, why is that?
THEN PLAY Woman: Well, I used to work for a
ROLES French company, and then I changed
jobs.
Man: Oh, really. I didn’t know that.
Woman: Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

https://soundgrammar.com/learn/L4-CEFR-B1/L4-03-UsedTo.htm
 Conversation 3
Man: Are you coming to the party?
CONVERSATION. Woman: No, I have to work.
LISTEN AND Man: Work! What happened? You
used to never miss a party!
THEN PLAY Woman: True, but I also didn’t use to
ROLES have a stressful job.
Man: True, you used to be poor -- but
you were fun!
Woman: Yep! I used to be fun!
(Sigh!)

https://soundgrammar.com/learn/L4-CEFR-B1/L4-03-UsedTo.htm
 It’s used to describe past habist or states. A time
expression is not necessary.
- I used to get up at six, but now I get up at eight.
- I used to own a horse. (I owned a horse once.)

With negatives and questions, used to becomes use

GRAMMAR to
FOCUS - I didn’t use to like beer.
- Did you use to swim every day?

When we use used to, we suggest that the action is

no longer true so make a strong contrast with the
present.
 1. I / live in a flat when I was a child.
2. We / go to the beach every summer?
3. She / love eating chocolate, but now she hates it
4. He / not / smoke
EXERCISES. 5. I / play tennis when I was at school
Complete 6. She / be able to speak French, but she has
sentences with forgotten it all
used to. 7. He / play golf every weekend?
8. They both / have short hair
9. Julie / study Portuguese
10. I / not / hate school