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

Example: Do men open doors for women?

1 Do Women __________ long skirt?
2 Do families___________ their meals together?
3 Do people ____________ Their doors when they aren't at home?
4 Do men ______________ hats when they go out?
5 Do Families___________ games together in the evening?
6 Do people____________ at home in the evening?
7 Do people____________ their shoes and___________ slippers when they go into a house?

2 In pairs, ask the questions and answers about people and families you know.

Reading

3. Read the article and match the paragraphs with the picture.

Example: 1-C

4. Read again and answer true (T) or false (F)
Example: In some countries, people still throw shoes al the bride at her wedding. F

1 All soldiers in the Roman army wore the same sandals.
2 People used to wear high heels and platform shoes many years ago.
3 Everyone wore red shoes when they visited King Louis XIV
4 At Anglo-Saxon wedding, the groom touched the bride's head with his shoes

Grammar Focus

5 Look at the examples below and underline the correct words in these explanations.

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.

Used To	Past simple
(?) What did  they use to do at wedding? (+) They used to throw  shoes at the bride. (-) Poor people didn't use  to wear red shoes.	What did they do at you wedding? They threw rice over me I didn't wear white shoes

Practice

7 Complete the sentence with the correct from of used  to and a verb from the box

Practice

7. Complete the sentences with the correct from of used to and a verb from the box

Wear(x2)      drink   play   go   open  eat

Example: In the UK in the 1920s, most people didn't use to drink (use) coffee but now a lot of people do.
1 ________________men__________________doors for women in you country fifty years ago?
2 People___________________(not) in restaurants as often as they do now
3 When you were young,____________ you _________________ a hat and tie when you?
4 Fifty years ago, a young man and woman _______________(not) for walks alone together. But that's all changed now.
5 We always________________ shoes when I was a child. Now a lot of children wear trainers.

Get talking

8. In pairs, discuss how things have changed.
1 Look at the photos above and talk about past customs in britain

2 Were these customs the same for people where you come from?

3 what other customs have changed? Think about:

• clothes
• entertainment
• food and drink
• politeness
• family life
• holidays