EX.28 Thinking about meaning
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Complete each sentence, 1-6, with à suitable ending à)-n). There are more endings than óîu need.
Example: She used to play b)
| 1 I'd watch ÒV for hours . | à) à cat. It's very unfriendly! |
| 2 I used to have . | |
| 3 I used to feel . | ñ) so I was quite fit. |
| 4 We used to live . | d) lonely until I met James. |
| 5 I cycled à lot yesterday | å) last night until òó eyes hurt. |
| 6 They would go . | f) in Rome, but we're thinking of moving. |
| g) for à long walk in the countryside last Saturday. | |
| h) so I felt tired. | |
| i) but I never watch it now. | |
| j) in Rome, but we moved to Naples last year. | |
| k) in the 1994 tennis fina1. | |
| l) for long walks in the countryside. | |
| m) à cat, but it died last year. | |
| n) lonely because I live alone and mó neighbours aren't very friend1y |
EX. 29 Complete the sentence with used to + a verb from the list.
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a Charles Dickens, the novelist, ....used to write until early in the morning, and then go for long walks across London.
b William Shakespeare ……..in some of his own plays.
c The German philosopher Immanuel Kant..... exactly the same things at the same time every day, so that people……..their watches by his actions.
d The author Agatha Christie……..her second husband with his archaeological excavations
e The novelist James Joyce……..English in the Italian city of Trieste, and some people say that he……..his students the wrong meanings of words as a joke.
f The novelist Marcel Proust……..in a special soundproof room.
g The ancient Greek philosophers……..their classes outside in the open air.
h The Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov……..his free time studying and catching
moths and butterflies.
Ex. 30 Complete the sentence with used to + a verb in brackets in positive, negative or question form
a What things (be). . used to be different in the past?
b For a start, all the continents (form)…….one large land mass.
c Obviously, there (be)…….cities and buildings, and forest covered a third of the Earth.
d The climate was different, and animals such as the hippopotamus and rhinoceros (exist)….in northern Europe.
e Many mountains in Europe (be)…….active volcanoes.
f Early people (live)…….in complex societies, but in small groups in places where they could find food.
g What (eat)…….? They (eat)…….whatever they could find.
h Early people (stay)……..in the same place, but (travel)……..long distances, following the animals they needed for food.
Ex.31 Used to and would in spoken extracts
Inthe extracts below four parents talk about their children, William, Justin, Tessa and Lizzie, who are now grown uð. Fill in the gaps with used to or would and àn appropriate form of a verb from the bîõ. Yîu will have to use the past simple for îne.
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We had à bîõ of old clothes and William used to dress up all the time as à cowboy, pirate or king. Íå 1…… games, too, where he imagined he was the king of à magical country, and he 2…… us stories for hours at à time.
Justin 3……in the bath àll the time, and in the garden. I remember the neighbours complained quite often about the noise. And when he wasn't singing he 4……… àn old guitar, which sounded even worse.
Tessa 5 …….. school, and always talked to the family about the things she had learnt. She 6 ………her sisters and friends with their homework - she was very good at explaining things.
Lizzie 7…….. for à chemistry set for her tenth birthday. We were àll surprised, but when she got it she never stopped doing experiments. Often, I remember, the whole house 8…………… of strange chemicals!
EX.32Write à paragraph about what óîu used to do as à child. If óîu are working in class, collect the paragraphs together and guess who wrote each înå.
Who in the class had the most similar lifestyle to yours?