🕰️ Grammar B1-4: used to

The fourth material of the Fleydo B1 grammar series treats used to as a two-part message in one verb: something happened again and again, or was true for a long time — and it is not true any more. A timeline and a pattern strip establish the idea, and a full form table shows one shape for every person until did arrives, at which point the -d disappears: didn’t use to, Did you use to…? — the number-one written error at this level, explained through the law learners already obey in didn’t played → didn’t play. A four-question decision procedure runs three worked examples: a chess habit from Year 5, a poetry prize won exactly once, and a question about purple hair. Two compare-and-verdict pairs carry the meaning limits: a single event can never take used to (Alba swam across the bay last July), and used to has no present form, so today’s habits fall to usually with the present simple. A note adds the subtler limit that used to never says how long or how many times. Practice is spread over four sets of eight, seven, eight and eight multiple-choice items, every answer explained, plus ten time phrases to sort into habit-ground versus single-moment, six reveal cards, six real notebook errors to repair and four traps. A tap-and-explain text about a shoebox of Mum’s old photographs shows every choice working in connected writing. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the purple-hair board move, the two walls learners hit, and the Cambridge B1 Preliminary relevance.