Use to and Used To
Module 3, Unit 1,
Lesson 3.
Grammar: Use to and used to
Vocabulary: Leisure activities
Listening: A radio talk show about popular activities
Reading: Hobbies then and now
Writing: A short report about your classmates
Speaking: Discussing questions
about having fun in the past and now.
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LESSON OVERVIEW
This lesson will help students
contrast
fun activities in the past and now.
They
will also learn useful expressions to
talk
about habits in the past and present.
By
the end of the lesson, they will write
a report about the topic.
1. Write five
activities that you do to
have fun.
▪▪ Give students a few
minutes
to brainstorm individually:
they should make a list in their
notebooks of five things they do
to have fun. As another option,
you can make it competitive by
asking students to work in teams,
queue up and take turns to run
to write words on the board.
The winner is the team with the
largest list of activities correctly
spelled.
2. Match the pictures
with the
expressions from the
box.
▪▪ Ask students to
look at the
Vocabulary Tip. Remind them
how useful it is to label pictures
as a strategy to learn new
vocabulary. A technique students
use is to make vocabulary lists
and translate the words into
Spanish. Tell them another
technique is to make lists and
draw the picture of the word,
i.e. their own Pictionary.
3. Talk to your partner
about the
activities above.
▪▪ Ask students to
think of reasons
to justify why they like the
activities they chose. Monitor and
help students with the vocabulary
they may need.
4. Read the box. Then
write four
true sentences using play
about
you and people that
you know.
▪▪ Draw students’
attention to the
Useful language box. Here, we
are looking at the verb play and
the nouns with which it collocates
(games, sports and musical
instruments). Go through the
example sentences as a class, and
elicit a few more for each group.
5. Copy the list
below. Then listen
to a radio talk show.
For the
activities in the
list, tick in the
1960s or now.
▪▪ Before the class,
ask students
to find out something about the
1960s. As a class, brainstorm
ideas about life in the 1960s.
Think about famous events,
fashions, music, and more.
6. Listen again.
Write one more
activity that Julia
mentions, and
one more that Tommy
mentions.
▪▪ Play audio Track 31
again. Ask
students to work individually to
find one more activity for each
speaker.
7. Look at these
sentences and
questions. Answer the
questions
a-c.
▪▪ The key language
point here is the
use of used to to talk about
past
experiences. First, read the three
sentences together as a class.
8. Think of three activities
for each
of the following. Use
exercises
2 and 5 to help you.
Then write
sentences with People
used to and
People didn’t use to.
▪▪ Ask students to
complete this
exercise in pairs. Monitor carefully
for grammatical accuracy.
▪▪ Share answers as a
class.
Glossary
▪▪ Draw students’
attention to the
glossary. Explain that it has words
they may not know in English.
▪▪ Students can copy
the words
and the L1 translation into their
notebooks, or if they have them,
their vocabulary books.
9. Read the article
quickly. Put the
sentences below in
the correct
place.
▪▪ Draw students’
attention to any
vocabulary you consider students
might not know and will probably
impede comprehension. For
example: pastime, nowadays,
spend time, build, plastic
models, stamp collecting, etc.
You can use the pictures in the
reading to elicit vocabulary from
students.
10. Read the text
again and answer
the following
questions.
▪▪ Ask students to
discuss these
questions in pairs. Review as a
class.
11. In pairs or small
groups, discuss
the following
questions.
▪▪ This activity
allows students to
develop their critical thinking
skills by reflecting on what
they have learnt in the lesson.
They will need to evaluate
information, demonstrate an
understanding of similarities and
differences, and formulate an
opinion. They will also need to
present their thoughts in clear
language.
12. Find out about
your classmates’
hobbies now and in
the past. Copy
the table and write
five questions
to ask your classmates.
Use the
activities in
exercise 2 and your
own ideas.
▪▪ The objective of
this activity
is to have students practise
comparative writing.
13. Ask your
classmates your questions
and complete the
table. Ask as
many people as possible.
▪▪ Set a reasonable
amount of time
for students to go around the
class to complete this section.
▪▪ Ask students to
form groups to
discuss the questions. Monitor
and provide students with any
language they might need.
14. Now write a short
report about your
classmates’ hobbies
now and in the
past. Look at the
Useful expressions
box on page 89 to
help you.
▪▪ Refer students back
to the earlier
box and review the language
suggestions.
▪▪ Now ask students to
work
individually to write a short
report. Monitor for accuracy.
This activity could also be set for
homework if students want to do
some simple online research.
▪▪ Some of their
paragraphs can be
read aloud to the class.