๐Ÿ“– Lesson B1 Grammar๐Ÿ“ Grammar

๐ŸŽง Summit: Grandpa's Schooldays

Aylin presses record and her grandfather's schooldays come back to life. Learners train the three-pass listening routine, catch the weak YOOS-tuh sound of used to and follow time-machine phrases like in those days. They finish by role-playing a time-traveller interview and writing a 50โ€“80-word mini-interview.

๐ŸŽ’ Teens (11โ€“16) schedule 45 min signal_cellular_alt Medium
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  • Predict three things Grandpaโ€™s school probably didnโ€™t use to have
  • Say used to five times fast and notice what happens to the sound

translate Key Vocabulary

interviewrecordgenerationstrictuniformplaygroundchorememorydecaderemind

auto_fix_high Grammar Points

  • Did you use toโ€ฆ? questions and short answers
  • used to weak pronunciation: YOOS-tuh in fast speech
  • didnโ€™t use to for things that were not habits in the past
  • past-time signal phrases: back then, in those days, when I was your age
  • present contrast with nowadays / these days + present simple

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