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Used To Work Be Be Not Be Live Live Not Be Be Love Hate Not Like Not Read Used To

The document discusses the use of "used to" to talk about past habits or situations that are no longer true. It provides examples of using "used to" in sentences, including "When Sophie was a girl, she didn’t use to like broccoli but now she loves it" and "I used to get to school by bus." It also notes that there is/are and there was/were can be used with "used to" to talk about what things were like in the past compared to the present.

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Used To Work Be Be Not Be Live Live Not Be Be Love Hate Not Like Not Read Used To

The document discusses the use of "used to" to talk about past habits or situations that are no longer true. It provides examples of using "used to" in sentences, including "When Sophie was a girl, she didn’t use to like broccoli but now she loves it" and "I used to get to school by bus." It also notes that there is/are and there was/were can be used with "used to" to talk about what things were like in the past compared to the present.

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• When Sophie was a girl, she didn’t use to like broccoli but now she loves it.

• A: “When you were at primary school, how did you use to get to school?”
B: “I used to get to school by bus”.

• There used to be an amusement arcade but there didn’t use to be a motorway.

REMEMBER!
There is(n’t) /are(n’t)
There was(n’t) / were(n’t)
There used to be / didn’t use to be

1.- Complete the sentences. Use used to, affirmative and negative and the Present Simple in
each sentence.

1) My dad ________________________ (work) in a factory, but now he _______________________


(be) a firefighter.
2) There ____________________ (be) a train station in our town, but there ____________________
(not be) one anymore.
3) We _____________________ (live) in a block of flats, but we _____________________ (live) in a
house now.
4) There ______________________ (not be) a motorway near our village, but there
_____________________ (be) one now.
5) When he was little he ______________________ (love) sweets, but now he ___________________
(hate) them.
6) Mandy ____________________ (not like) reading, but now she _____________________ (not
read) all the time.

2.- Complete the first sentence. Use the affirmative or negative form of used to.

1) José ______________ smoke fifteen cigarettes a day. He doesn’t smoke any now.

2) My sisters _________________ have long hair. They have short hair now.

3) My friends _________________ any foreign languages. Now he speaks two.

4) My parents ________________ do any recycling. Now they recycle everything.

5) I __________________ swim every morning. Now I only swim on Saturdays.


3.- Make questions with used to. Then write true answers.
1) you / have a dog → Did you use to have a dog? Yes, I did.

2) you / share a room with your brother or sister

3) your mother / wear glasses when she was a child

4) your parents / get up late at weekends

5) your father / play the guitar

6) your best friend / go to a different school

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