Engleski jezik 1 - Advanced Learning - Blast from the past

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1 Writing I

Look at the photos and write a sentence for each of these things explaining how things are different today.

A man in a blue suit wearing an afro, a pair of sun glasses, a bow tie and a wrist watch & a woman in a red dress wearing wearing a white hat, a white scarf and a white bag.

2 Listening

Ching Li
Ching Li's grandmother

Listen to Ching Li talking to her grandmother. Are the statements True or False?

Transkript

CHING LI: Grandma, how did you talk to your friends before phones?
GRANDMOTHER: Hm, do you think that I am that old? We used to have a phone in our house.
CHING LI: Only one phone?
GRANDMOTHER: Yes, one phone which was in the living room.
CHING LI: How did you text your friends then?
GRANDMOTHER: Text messaging didn't exist before mobile phones, so we didn't do it.
CHING LI: How did you use to make arrangements with them then?
GRANDMOTHER: We used to talk on the phone.
CHING LI: In front of everybody? Hmm, how did you have a private conversation then?
GRANDMOTHER: Well, we used to have a private conversation when we visited each other.
CHING LI: Did all your friends use to live near you?
GRANDMOTHER: Most of them did, but I also had a friend who moved to the USA so we used to write letters because it was very expensive to talk on the phone.
CHING LI: Letters? No Skype, emails, online chats? I can't imagine my life without them.
GRANDMOTHER: Those things didn't exist so everything was different.
CHING LI: So what did you use to do with your friends back then?
GRANDMOTHER: We used to visit each other, talk or listen to music, go to the cinema or just walk or cycle together. Every Saturday, we would get together in the town centre, then decide where we would go.
CHING LI: Have you got any photos from that time?
GRANDMOTHER: I think I have a few. I had a camera, which I got for my 18th birthday, but I rarely used it because it was very expensive to develop photos.
CHING LI: How many friends did you use to have?
GRANDMOTHER: I had 3 good friends.
CHING LI: Three? I have like 500 online friends!
GRANDMOTHER: 500? And do you see them regularly?
CHING LI: Not really, only a few of them.
GRANDMOTHER: So, things are not so different from what they used to be.

GRAMMAR FOCUS

                
                        USED TO
                
                        "used to" + infinitive
                    
                        CORRECT - to talk about past states that don't happen anymore or are no longer true
                        INCORRECT - to talk about a past action that happened only once. (Use Past Simple)
                    
                        They used to have a phone in their house.
                        She got a camera for her 18th birthday.
                    
                        She used to go to the cinema or listen to music.
                        NOT "used to get"
                    
                        Questions and negatives
                    
                        Did she use to talk?
                    
                        Yes, she did./No, she didn't.
                    
                        She didn't use to talk.
                    
                        WOULD
                    
                        We can use "would" to talk about repeated past actions. Often either "would" or "used to" is
                            possible.
                        Only "used to" is possible when we talk about past states.
                    
                        Every Saturday, we would get together in the town centre, then decide where we
                            would go.
                        She used to live near her friends.
                    
                        Every Saturday, we used to get together in the town centre, then decide where
                            we would go.
                        She would live near her friends. NOT POSSIBLE!

CORRECT - to talk about past states that don't happen anymore or are no longer true	INCORRECT - to talk about a past action that happened only once. (Use Past Simple)
They used to have a phone in their house.	She got a camera for her 18th birthday.
She used to go to the cinema or listen to music.	NOT "used to get"

We can use "would" to talk about repeated past actions. Often either "would" or "used to" is possible.	Only "used to" is possible when we talk about past states.
Every Saturday, we would get together in the town centre, then decide where we would go.	She used to live near her friends.
Every Saturday, we used to get together in the town centre, then decide where we would go.	~~She would live near her friends.~~ NOT POSSIBLE!

3 Complete the sentences

Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the drop-down menu.

1 When I was a child we on a farm in the country.

2 On Christmas mornings, we while everyone else was still asleep.

3 I breakfast for my siblings and parents.

4 We hours talking to each other while we were on Christmas holidays.

5 Once I my mom a coffee maker. She was really happy!

4 Practice

Where possible, replace the Past Simple in the sentences with USED TO.

5 Writing II

Write questions for the following sentences with used to where possible (two sentences) and then answer them. Where not possible, leave the lines empty.

Example:
My mum drove me to school.
Did your mum use to drive you to school?
Yes, she did.