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Used To
Used To
USED TO + INFINITIVE
Yes, I did
No, I didn’t
EXPLANATION
• When I was ten I used
withto
played play
with
dolls
• Now I don’t play
Did
Didyou use to smokewhen you were ten?
yousmoke
THERE USED TO BE
Was
• Did there
there use to be a cinema 10 years ago?
COMPLETE. In1920 in “Los
Cantones”
• There /any
cinemas
• very busy
• a lot of people.
• very few cars.
• very noisy.
• quieter.
In 1900 in A Coruña
• There/not/football
stadium
• People/not/play
football.
• People /not/go to
football matches.
In 1973 in A Coruña
• There/a bullfighting
ring
• Bullfighting /be very
popular.
• Bullfighter /not/ die
although some of
them did.
A Coruña 1900
• People /walk /St.
Anton’s castle.
• There/a road there
• So People
/swim/there or
• go/by boat
• Now / a road so
people/usually/walk
In the 1960s
• There/remote
controls.
• So people /get
up/switch off the TV
• But nowadays/get up
any more as
everybody / a remote
control
At the beginning of history
• There /tractors
• So farmers /roman
plough
In the 1970s
• There/mp3 players
• So young people
/listen to cassettes
• Now /mp3 players
and young people
/not /listen to
cassettes any more/
they listen to mp3
players
In the 1980s
• She works in a
bookshop now but…