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2. In pairs, say whether these statements are true (T) or false (F).

1- Both would and used to describe actions which happened regularly in the past but no longer happen now.
2- We use both used to and would for permanent actions in the past.
3- We use would for permanent states in the past.
4- belong, want, remember are examples of stative verbs.
5- We use would for temporary states.
6- We use used to with action verbs.

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In this lesson, you will distinguish would from used to. Are you ready?

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1. Watch this video about the form, use and difference between would and used to.

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3. In pairs, say whether these sentences are grammatically correct (R) or not (W).

1- I use to have short hair when I was a teenager.
2-We used to go to the same coffee shop for breakfast every day when we were younger.
3- Mario would walk along the beach every night before going to bed.
4- My grandfather used to drink a cup of coffee after dinner every night.

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4. Like the contestants in this video, you have to answer three questions about used to and would.

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Used to and Would: The Grammar Gameshow Episode 3

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5. You are going to listen to a recording about life in the 1940s. What do you think your grandparents would do?

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6. Listen to the recording twice and answer the multiple-choice questions on this website.

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I was born in 1936 and I lived with my family in a village near Bristol. My father was a fruit farm advisor and my mother was a housewife. But when our teacher retired from my school, my mother asked for the school books and started a small school at home. I think about nine children used to come to study with us. Mother taught us French and English, even though she was very deaf!

Because it was the war, most people didn't use to have much food. We were lucky as we had lots of land so we used to grow our own vegetables and we had chickens, rabbits and a pig. But mother would feed us lentils every day, which I hated! I still can't stand them now. I remember hiding lentils in my pockets - and I'd sow them in the garden. Luckily I didn't ever wait for them to grow! I think that was the beginning of my gardening career, because after I left home that's what I studied at college!

We didn't have a television until I was about ten. Instead, we listened to the radio a lot after school, and we would play cards and board games, and play with friends outside. We couldn't really afford many holidays - people didn't in those days. There wasn't much petrol, and it was very expensive. But when I was a bit older we had a caravan and I remember it had a tin bath that hung down under the floorboards. We used to love bath time on holidays!

Nowadays people buy so many clothes, but when I was little people used to make them all. My grandmother would cut up old clothes and make skirts and blouses from them. And she used to give us a home made jumper every year that she knitted from wool she took from old jumpers. These jumpers were lovely - bright and stripy. And when we made holes in our socks grandmother would always mend them for us.

Mmm ... we didn't have a lot in those days, but I had a very happy childhood.

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I was born in 1936 and I lived with my family in a village near Bristol. My father was a fruit farm advisor and my mother was a housewife. But when our teacher retired from my school, my mother asked for the school books and started a small school at home.

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7. Listen to the recording again. Find synonyms for the following words:

a) hate
b) unaffordable
c) vivid

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9. Write a paragraph about things you used to do as a child. Then, share your ideas with the rest.

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8. In pairs, answer the following questions. Then, share your answers with the rest.

a) What is the food that you used to hate but now you like?
b) Did you use to have a pet?
c) What used to be your favourite game to play?

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Let's practise the writing!

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Ana Cristina Rodríguez Quirós.