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Past events:

Used to

1. Which of these did/didnt you use to do when you were eight years old?

When I was eight I used to skate. I didnt play video games.

1. ________________________________________________.

2. ________________________________________________.

3. ________________________________________________.

4. ________________________________________________.

5. ________________________________________________.

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A famous rebelbut was he really?

MICK JAGGER went back to his old school recentlyfor the first

time since he left in 1961. He was invited to the school to open theMick Jagger Performing Arts centre, a new music and drama

department at Dartford Grammar School.

Jagger said that he was honoured that the centre was named

after him. But in a newspaper interview two days before he told a

journalist that in fact he hated school and that he used to be a

rebel.

He didnt use to do the homework there was far too much and he was continually at

war with the teachers. He used to break the rules all the time, especially rules he thought

were stupid, about how to wear the school uniform and things like that. Once he evenorganized a mass protest against appalling school dinners. It was probably the g reatest

contribution to school I ever made, he said. Although he made a good start at school,

Jagger said his school work deteriorated because of music and girls.

However, according to one of his old school friends, musician Dick Taylor, this is not true.

He says that Mick didnt use to be a rebel at all he was quite bright and used to work

hard. He also used to do a lot of sport.

When Mick Jagger left school, he had seven O-levels and two A-levels, which at that time

were good qualificationsso perhaps Dicks memory is better that Micks

Adapted from a British newspaper

2. Underline six phrases with used to / didnt use to in the text.

3. Read the text again and guess the meaning of the highlighted words.

Affirmative Negative

IYouHeShe used toHe wear glasses.ItWeYouThe

IYouHeShe didntuse toHe wear glasses.ItWeYouThey

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4. Use the prompts to ask and answer questions about Sally.

A: Did Sally use to have short hair then?

B: No, she didnt. She used to have long hair.

5. Match sentences 15 with sentences ae.

Use used to / didnt use to+ infinitive for things that happened repeatedly or

over a long period of time in the past, but are usually not true now.

She used toplay with her dolls when she was six.

I didnt use toeat vegetables.

Questions and answers

Did Mary use to avoid sweets? Yes, she did. / No, she didnt.

What did you use to eat for breakfast? Eggs and sausage. But not anymore.

Thenhave long hair

wear casual clotheswear glasses

be a bit overweightlive in Woodstock

Nowhave short hair

wear formal clotheswear contact lenses

be slimlive in Toronto

1 Jane used to eat lots of hamburgers.

2 Karen used to read lots of comics.

3 We often used to go to our flat on the beach.

4 Tony an I used to play table tennis.

5 We used to go to Greece for our holidays.

a She reads teenage magazines now.

b He still plays twice a week, but I dont play anym

c We dont go there anymore. We prefer Italy now

d She stopped eating fast food a year ago.

e We sold it a year ago and bought a bigger flat in

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6. Complete the sentences. Use the present simple and the correct form of

used to.

1. That shop used to be (be) a clothes shop, but now it sells (sell) CDs.

2. You __________ (be) my friend, but now you only __________ (say) horrible

things about me!

3. We __________ (live) in a small flat in the city, but we __________ (not live)

there anymore.

4. His father __________ (not smoke) anymore, but when he was younger he

__________ (smoke) sixty cigarettes a day!

5. My favourite player __________ (not be) very good now, but he __________

(be) the best in the country.

6. I __________ (not listen) to reggae when I was younger, but now I __________

(love) it!

7. A: __________ (you/like) eggs when you were a child?

B: No, but now I __________ (love) them.

8. A: __________ (your father/play) football when he was younger?

B: Yes, he didbut he __________ (be) too old now!