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Grammar Videos: Used To - Exercises: 1. Check Your Grammar: Gap Fill

The document provides exercises to check understanding of the grammar structure "used to". It includes: 1. A gap fill exercise with explanations of how "used to" is used in the past tense and with infinitive verbs. 2. An exercise to identify whether sample sentences using "used to" are correct or incorrect. 3. Another gap fill exercise to practice using "used to" with different verbs in sentences describing past habits or traits no longer true. The document ends with discussion questions about how people may have changed compared to the past.

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Grammar Videos: Used To - Exercises: 1. Check Your Grammar: Gap Fill

The document provides exercises to check understanding of the grammar structure "used to". It includes: 1. A gap fill exercise with explanations of how "used to" is used in the past tense and with infinitive verbs. 2. An exercise to identify whether sample sentences using "used to" are correct or incorrect. 3. Another gap fill exercise to practice using "used to" with different verbs in sentences describing past habits or traits no longer true. The document ends with discussion questions about how people may have changed compared to the past.

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videos: Used to – exercises

Grammar

e and read the conversation between Sophie and Tomas. Then do these exercises to check your understanding of used to.

1. Check your grammar: gap fill


Complete the explanation with a word from the box.

simple not past didn’t infinitive

1. We use used to to talk about things that happened or were true in the past_______________, but not
now.

2. You can always use the past simple____________instead of used to.

3. We use used to to emphasise that the action or state is not_______________what happens now.

4. Used to is followed by the infinitive_______verb.

5. To make questions and negatives with used to, we use did and didn’t___________.

2. Check your grammar: correct or incorrect


Circle whether used to is Correct or Incorrect in these sentences.

1. When I was a child, my hair used to be much blonder than now. Correc Incorrec
t t
2. I never used to go to football. I hate it. I can’t understand why people like it. Correc Incorrec
t t
3. I used to like his music before he went all hip-hop. But now … ! Correc Incorrec
t t

4. We used to visit my grandmother every weekend. I love listening to her


stories.
Correct Incorrect

5. 'Didn't you use to wear glasses?' 'Yes, but I had an operation on my eyes.' Correct Incorrect

6. I used to walk to school. I don't like using public transport and my mum
doesn't have a car any more.
Correct Incorrect
Grammar videos: Used to – exercises

3. Check your grammar: gap fill


Complete the sentence using the correct form of used to and one of the verbs in the box.

do sit play speak smoke buy have (x2)

1. He lived in Brazil until he was seven. He used to speak _______Portuguese, but he's forgotten a lot of
it now.

2. We didn’t used to have _smartphones, or even internet in our houses. To go online you had to go to
an internet café or library or something.

3. She used to smoke ___but she's given up now. She's really healthy these days.

4. We used to play ___together when we were children, but I don't see them much any more.

5. You used to live on the same road as me! Did we used to buy ______sweets in that shop on the corner?

6. She didn’t used to play___any sport at all, but now she's in the basketball team and she loves it.

7. We always use to sit ____on the bridge with our legs hanging down, and throw sticks into the
river.

8. I didn't recognise him because of his new beard. He didn’t use to have________a beard! He looks
completely different now.

Discussion

How have you changed, compared to when you were little? Is there any food you used to hate but you like now?
What activities did you use to do that you’ve stopped doing now?

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