Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

Tell participants this: Unfortunately, the park does not exist any more, there is a new supermarket there now. By the way, we lived very close to Registan Square.
NB. If there are slightly different examples from students (E.g. Akmal used to go to the swimming pool with his brother at weekends etc), accept them as well because it will bring some variety to the examples on the board.
- ☺ (5 min) Refer students to the sentences on the board. Underline used to + verb and ask the following questions (allow guesses, do not demand right answers at this stage) :
~ What time do you think this construction shows? (Answer: past)
~ How do you think it is different from Simple past? (Answer: Repeated actions and actions finished in the past)
- ☺ (10 min) Say that you have prepared a text with more examples of the construction. Say it is about Registan square. Distribute handout 1􀀏 and ask students to read it carefully and find examples of used to in the text.
- ☺ (8 min) Collect the examples of ‘used to’ on the board. Make sure students do not confuse this construction with the Passive form of the verb ‘use’. Ask the following questions and comment the answers if necessary.
~ What time is described by the construction ‘used to’? (Answer: past)
Elicit that every sentence with ‘used to’ expresses the function of a habit or a discontinued routine. Draw students’ attention to the last sentence of the text which shows the present state of matters which is different from the past.
~ What form of the verb is used after used to? (Answer: Infinitive)
Write the structure on the board