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used to used to play the piano.

/ used to play you used to play he/she/it used to play etc

H did 1use to play ? did you use to play? did he/she/it use to play? etc

D 1did not use to play you did not use to play he/she/it did not use to play etc
I used to play the piano. I don't play now.

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We use used to + infinitive for finished habits and situations: things that were true, but are not now,
(Used to is not really a modal: we make questions and negatives with did.)
I used to play the piano, but I stopped. Pat used to have long fair hair.
Where did you use to live before you came here? I didn't use to like fish, but now I do.

Make sentences about people hundreds of years ago. Begin (Most) people used to ...
or (Most) people didn't use to ... or A lot of people used to ...

! be farmers to be famters.__

! have cars t to have oars._

1 travel on foot or on horses ..........................................................................................
2 go to school ..........................................................................................
3 learn to read ..........................................................................................
4 cook on wood fires ..........................................................................................
5 live very long ..........................................................................................
6 work very long hours ..........................................................................................

To talk about present habits and situations, we use the simple present, NOT use to.

I play a lot of tennis. (NOT / use to play a lot of tennis.)

^ Make sentences about past and present habits and situations.
^ John / rugby / tennis _joktA, ucsed t o h-low be ter^iA/t.s.

1 Emily/study German/French ........................................................................

2 Paul / live London/Glasgow ...........................................................................
3 Grace/read a lot/TV ......................................................................................
4 Dan/driver/hairdresser .................................................................................

5 Alice/coffee/tea ...........................................................................................
6 Peter/lots of girlfriends/married ...................................................................

0 Make questions about a very old person's past.
^ where / go to school VN/ber^e dud you i/cse to c^o to scbooL?

1 have dark hair D id..........................................................................................

2 play football ...................................................................................................
3 where/work ...................................................................................................
4 enjoy your work ..............................................................................................
5 go to a lot of parties ........................................................................................

0 Write a sentence about your past.
I used to .................................................................................................................

In some answers, both contracted forms (for example I'm, don't) and full MODAL VERBS 89
forms (for example / am, do not) are possible. Normally both are correct.