2 Answer the questions.
Are you living faster…?
1. Compared to two years ago, do you spend more or less time on these things? Say why.
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Working or studying Talking on the phone Working on a computer |
sitting in traffic seeing friends shopping |
cooking eating sleeping |
2. Do you have more or less free time than a year ago? Why?
3. How do you get to work/ school? How long does it take you?
4. Do you usually arrive on time….? Why (not)?
5. Do you waste a lot of time every day? Doing what?
3 Read the poem and summarize it
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Believe In Yourself And in your dream though impossible things may seem, Someday, somehow you'll get through to the goal you have in view. Mountains fall and seas divide before the one who in his stride Takes a hard road day by day sweeping obstacles away. Believe in yourself and in your plan. Say not - I cannot but, I can. The prizes of life we fail to win, Because we doubt the power within. |
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Speaking
1Speak on the given topic.
Think about your life ten years ago and compare with nowadays.
2 Discuss the questions with a partner.
a. Compare your lives then and now.
b. How similar were your lives ten years ago?
c. What job did you use to want to do when you were a child?
3 Write six sentences – five true and one false – describing ways in which your life was different then. Choose from the topics below or use your own ideas.
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car clothes favourite actors friends going out hair styles hobbies holidays music school sport TV programmes |
Writing
1 Look at how James has changed. Write five sentences about how he was THEN.
Then Now
He didn’t use to be slim.
________________ short hair.
________________quite fat.
________________ briefcase.
________________ jacket.
________________ on a diet.
2 Look at the sentences. Where possible, replace the past simple with used to or didn’t use to + infinitive.
When I was a child …
a. my parents had a big old car. my parents used to have a big old car.
b. my mother drove me to school every day.
c. I didn’t like going on long journeys. I got car sick.
d. one summer we went to France on a camping holiday.
e. my father never washed the car. It always looked dirty.
3 Re-order the words.
from are you where?
watch you do TV?
to music you what kind of listen do?
English where you before did study?
are do what you weekend going this to?
Test
1. My brother _________ glasses.
used to wear
use to wear
used to wearing
to used wear
2. I __________ like vegetables when I was a child.
a. don’t use to
b. didn’t use to
c. didn’t used to
d. don’t used to
3. Every weekend we __________ out town.
use to drive
used to drive
to used drive
used to driving