Unit 4: Family life

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutiérrez Alarcón

Grammar: let/make/help/have + object +verb

let/make/help/have + object +verb

My parents won’t let me stay out late.
They make me come home before 10.00.
My kinds never help me clean the house.
I have them do their homework before dinner.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

Grammar: get/want/ask/tell + object +to +
verb
get/want/ask/tell + object +to + verb
I can’t get them to clean up their rooms.
My parents want me to study law.
I have to ask them to drive everywhere.
My wife is always telling me to slow down.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 Page35: Choose the correct verbs to complete the sentences.

1. When I was a kid, my parents never ________me walk to school by myself.

(got/let)
2. My parents made me ________ to bed at 8.00. (go/to go)
3. My mother couldn’t ________ me to eat fish. I was a picky eater!
(make/get)
4. My brother never lets me ________his computer. (use/to use)

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

5. My parents ________ me to spend more time with them. I should, but I’m
too busy. (want/have)
6. My dad’s always telling me ________ more exercise. (get / to get)
7. I always ________ my husband make breakfast on weekends so I can sleep
late (have/get)
8. I think kids should ________their parents clean the house. (get/help)
9. My parents always say they want me ________ happy, not rich. (to be / be)
10. I usually ________ my parents know when I’m going to be home late. (let /
have)

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 Grammar: Used to and would
(+) (-)
I I
You You
He He
She used to wear glasses. She didn’t use to wear glasses.
It It
We We
They They

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 • Use used to / didn’t use to + infinitive for things that
happened repeatedly or over a long period of time in the past,
but are usually not true now, for example for things which
happened when you were a child.
- I used to have long hair. I used to play in the Street. I didn’t use to
have a TV.
- I used to think that I was a princess when I was 5.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

Exercises:Look at how James has changed. Write five
sentences about how he wasTHEN.

THEN NOW
1. ________________________________ slim
2. ________________________________ short
hair.
3. ________________________________ quite
fat.
4. ________________________________ wear
a uniform.
5. ________________________________ wine.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

 Exercises: make sentences with used to, didn’t use to ,
or did…use to.
1. (?) where / you / go to school
___________________________________________________
1. (-) I / like vegetables when I was a child
___________________________________________________
1. (+) my sister / hate maths at school
___________________________________________________
1. (?) what / you/ do in the summer
___________________________________________________

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

5. (-) they / live near here
___________________________________________________
6. (+) this building / be a cinema
___________________________________________________
7. (?) your brother / study here
___________________________________________________
8. (?) you /have long hair.
___________________________________________________

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

Page 37: What family memories do you have? Complete
each sentence with would.

1. My family used to go to _____________ in the summer. We’d go almost

every weekend.
2. My mother used to make _____________ for us. _____________________
_______________________________________________.
3. My sister and I used to play _____________ together. ___________________
_______________________________________________.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn

4. I used to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins _____________. _____________
___________________________________________.
5. My grandparents used to take me to _____________. ___________________
____________________________________________ .
6. My parents didn’t use to _____________ on weekends. _________________
_____________________________________________.

Ms. Lizeth Karina Gutièrrez Alarcòn