The past
Vocabulary: Customs: verb + non combinations
Grammar: Used to / didn't use to
languaje to go: Talking about past customs
Customs Change
Vocabulary and speaking
1. Complete the questions with verbs from the box
Have Stay Open Play Wear (x2) lock take off put on
1 Do Women
Wear long skirt?
2 Do families
stay their meals together?
3 Do people
lock Their doors when they aren't at home?
4 Do men
wear hats when they go out?
5 Do Families
play games together in the evening?
6 Do people
put on at home in the evening?
7 Do people
have their shoes and
take off slippers when they go into a house?
2. Some examples
1 Is
wear do women.
2 The families
stay together when they meals
3 Yes, The people
lock their doors when they aren't in yours home
4 Some men
wear hats when stay out
5 Some families
play games together in the evening.
3.
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. E
5. B
4.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5.
1 We use used to + infinitive to talk about something which happened in the past and
still happens / doesn't happen in the present.
2 We can't use
used to to talk about something which happened
only once/ more than once.
7.
1
Did men
open doors for women in you country fifty years ago?
2 People
didn't eat (not) in restaurants as often as they do now
3 When you were young, you
did your wear a hat and tie when you?
4 Fifty years ago, a young man and woman
didn´t go didn't (not) for walks alone together. But that's all changed now.
5 We always
wear shoes when I was a child. Now a lot of children wear trainers.
8.