Grammar: Used to
pre-intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To develop students’ ability to talk about past habits using used to in the context of talking about things you did in the past
Subsidiary Aims
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To improve students’ ability to talk about the things they did in the past and stopped doing it now
Procedure (37-49 minutes)
- T shows ss 4 pictures of chocolate, cigarette, cycling, and someone smoking. - T asks ss: - Did you smoke in the past? once or many times? - Did you ride a bike in the past? - Did you eat chocolate in the past? once or many times? - T listens to ss answers and writes it down.
T asks ss to write 3 sentences about things they did in the past and don not do now. T writes the ss answers on board and tells ss that we use used to talk about past habits. - T tells ss to write a sentence using"used to"
- Now T asks ss to write 3 sentences about things they do now but didnt do in the past. - T writes the students' answers and tells them that we use the negative form "did + not + use + to + infinitive to tells about things we do now and we did not do in the past. - T asks ss to tell about one thing they do now and did not in the past using /didnt use to/ - T highlights that /did not use to/ is followed by infinitive - T also highlihts that after did not we say /use/ not /used/
- T displays ho1 and asks ss to take 5 min answering the questions in pairs - T listens to students answers and writes it down - T discusses the questions with ss and writes the answers on the board. - T supports that we use /used to+inf/ to talk about habits in the past. (feedback) - T tells that we use did not use to to talk about things you did not do in the past.(feedback) - T tells about forming a question using used to. (feedback) T displays ho2 and asks ss to take 5 min answering the multiple choice questions. - T listens to ss answers and supports with feedback.
-T displays ho3 which is a gap filling handout and tells ss to answer the questions in 5 mins. - T asks ss to pair check their answers together. - T listens to ss answers and supports with the answers on the board. - T displays ho4 which is find the mistake handout and tells ss to answer the questions individually. - T checks the answers with ss and writes it on the board.
- T displays ho5 and asks ss to talk with their partners and tell about 2 things they used to do in the past and stopped. - Another 2 things they do now and they did not do in the past. - T supports with final feedback.