Ex 1. Complete the sentences with USED TO ..... Use negative and interrogative forms if necessary.
1. I (go) ________________ to work by bus but now I drive my car to work.
2. Joe and I (like) ________________ each other but now we are best friends.
3. Sue (fancy) ________________ rock music but now she is a fan of it.
4. My uncle (work) ________________ as a police officer before he retired.
5. ________________ (you/ catch) fireflies when you were a child?
6. I (play) ________________ tennis with my friends but now I’m too busy to continue.
7. My father (smoke) ________________ a lot but he gave up three years ago.
8. My brother (do) ________________ the washing but now he wants to help my mom do it.
9. Jane (break) ________________ the special limit and a police officer stopped her.
10. The Smiths (live) ________________ in the country but now they live and work in the city.
11. This doctor (be) ________________ famous but now everyone knows him.
12. My hometown (have) ________________ an amusement park but the authorities have opened one.
13. My student (be) ________________ very bad at Math but now he improves a lot.
14. Jim’s brother (like) ________________ reading comic but he stopped reading it 1 year ago.
15. His parents (live) ________________ in a small house but now they live in a big one.
Ex2. Rewrite the given sentences using USED TO .....
1. My mother worked at a restaurant 3 years ago but now she doesn’t.
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2. He was the President of Student Union but now he isn’t.
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3. There were many tree-lined streets in my hometown but now there is none of them.
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4. My husband didn’t often do the housework but now he does.
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Use the cues to complete the sentences that make a story. You may change the forms if necessary. (2 ms)
1. It/ a nice morning/ May.
It was a nice morning in May
2. My friends/ I/ take/ a boat trip/ the Mekong Delta.
My friends and i took a boat trip in the Mekong Delta
3. We/ see/ a lot of women/ plant/ rice/ rice fields.
We saw a lot of women planting rice in the fields
4. After an hour/ we/ stop by/ island/ and/ visit/ snake farm/ see the snakes.
After an hour, we stopped by an island and visited a snake farm to see the snakes
5. At noon/ we listen/ traditional music/ play/ local people.
At noon, we listened to the traditional music played by the local people
6. Then we/ have lunch/ rice and fresh food/ fruit garden.
Then we had luch with rice and fresh food in a fruit garden
7. After the meal/ we continue/ trip/ floating market.
After the meal, we continued our trip to a floating market
8. There we/ enjoy/ buy/ fruit and many local specialties.
There we enjoyed buying fruit and many local specialties
9. At 4 pm/ we visit/ famous pagoda/ before/ coming/ home/ coach.
At 4 pm, we visited a famous pagoga before coming back home by coach
10. The trip/ very interesting/ we/ enjoy/ very much.
The trip was very interesting and we enjoyed it very much