Tiếng Anh 12 - Used to would

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1. AB USED TO / WOULD 4. My sister didn’t use to wear jeans but now she loves them.   5. My sister wasn't wearing jeans when she came over.   USED TO 6. Did you use to be a bright student at school?   AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE 7. When it rained we would take out a board game and play all afternoon.   I used to go. I didn’t use to go. Did I use to go? 8. I used a lot of flour to make this cake.   You used to go. You didn’t use to go. Did you use to go? 9 .What would you like to do?   He / She / It used to go. He / She / It didn't use to go. Did he / she / it use to go? 10 .I often invited them over but they would always say no.   We used to go. We didn't use to go. Did we use to go? You used to go. You didn’t use to go. Did you use to go? II. Change the underlined verbs in the following sentences using used to. They used to go They didn’t use to go. Did they use to go.? 1. I loved heavy metal when I was in high school. SHORT ANSWER AFFIRMATIVE Yes, I / you / he / she / it / we / you / they did. 2. We were friends but I don't know where he lives now. NEGATIVE No, I / you / he / she / it / we / you / they didn’t 3. What subjects did you like when you were in highschool? USAGE AND EXAMPLES • Used to is found in sentences describing a past habit, or situation that is no longer true: 4. I didn't go out very often in the past. it can be used for both actions and situations or states. Study these examples: - I used to be very shy but then 1 met my bestfriends Lisa and Carol. 5. There were fewer cars 10 years ago. - My brother goes to the theatre every two weeks but he didn’t use to like it as a teenager. 6. It wasn't so warm in October when I was a child. - What did you use to do when you were in elementary school? • Would can also be used to describe regular habits or activities of the past and it can often substitute used to. It is normally only used in the affirmative. III. Underline the correct tense in the following sentences. - When I was younger I loved walking in the park near home. Every morning, before 1. I saw / used to see my brother a lot but then we fell / used to fall out over an going to work, inheritance. - I would go (used to go)for a stroll with my dog and enjoy the quiet. 2. Emma wouldn’t / didn't use to write poems but then she met / used to meet Greg and USED TO or WOULD would start / started being romantic. • Remember that would cannot be used to describe stales or situations. See the examples 3. I would hate / used to hate dark chocolate as a child, but I can't live without it now. below: 4. Lucy would have / used to have long hair as a teenager. - My brother used to be very touchy as a child. Every time he got a lower mark than me 5. I lived / would live in Rome from 1990 to 2005. I went / used to go to St Peter’s he would stop (or: used to stop) talking to mefor afew days. Cathedral every month. - My grandma was a great woman. She didn’t use to be very talkative but she would 6. Did you use to be / Would you be shy when you were little? always give you a hand if you needed help. IV. Fill in the blanks with the correct verb from the box using the Past Simple or PRACTICE used to / would. Write both used to and would if both of them can be used. I. Do these sentences refer to past habits / situations that aren’t ưue now (A) or not (B)? be (x3) - able to - call - enjoy - fast - forget - get – give - go - take A B 1. I used to get up late on Sundays when I was younger.  0. I was already so fond of movies! I used to / would go to the cinema every weekend. 2. I got up at 7 last Sunday.  1. Dad bald when he was 25, of course! 3. Where were you working in the 1980s?  2. We to speak German but we soon it because we never used it. TQT
2. 3. When I was at university I my grandma after every exam I 4. She scuba diving but one day some sharks attacked her so she it up. 5. George very sporty: every morning he up early and run 10 km. ANSWER KEY 6. My grandfather every Sunday: he believed it good for his health. I. YES: 1 – 4 – 6 – 7 – 10; NO: 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 9 V. Listen to the an extract from ‘Eveline’, Dubliners by James loyce and complete II. it with the verbs from the box. 1. used to love – 2. used to be – 3. did you use to like 4. didn't use to go – 5. used to be – 6. didn't use to be used to play - played - used to be - bought - passed - used to keep - saw III. built - seemed - used to play - heard - used often to hunt 1. used to see / fell out – 2. didn't use to write / met / started 3. used to hate – 4. used to have – 5. lived / used to go – 6. Did you use to be Few people (1) The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she IV. (2) his footsteps clacking Up along the concrete pavement and afterwards 1. didn't use to be – 2. used to be able / forgot – 3. would-used to call / took crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there (3) a 4. used to enjoy / gave up – 5. used to be / used to get – 6. would – used to fast / was field there in which they (4) every evening with other people’s children. Then V. a man from Belfast (5) the field and (6) houses in it - not like their 1. passed – 2. heard – 3. used to be – 4. used to play – 5. bought little brown houses but bright brick houses with shiningmroofs. The children of the 6. built – 7. used to play – 8. played – 9. used often to hunt avenue (7) together in that field - the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little 10. used to keep –11. saw – 12. seemed Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Ernest, however, never (8) : he was too grown up. Her father (9) them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh (10) nix and call out when he (11) her father coming, still they (12) to have been rather happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. lizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Note: nix: nothing TQT