🧗 Grammar B2-4: be used to / get used to

The fourth material of the Fleydo B2 grammar series takes the three structures that share four letters and shows that they are not variants of one another but three different pieces of news. used to plus a base verb reports a habit that has ended; be used to reports a present state in which something has lost its power to surprise; get used to reports the journey between them. The lesson turns on one machine fact, stated precisely and drilled twice in worked examples: in the be and get families used behaves like an adjective and to is a preposition, so a noun walks straight in and a verb must wear -ing — I am used to getting up early, never to get up. A two-second diagnostic makes the difference testable rather than memorised: if you can drop the word it after to, the slot is a noun slot. Two form tables cover the state family across persons, negatives, questions, short answers and the past, then the process family across every tense, showing that the tense always sits on get — am getting, got, have got, had got, will get — while used never moves. Two compare-and-verdict pairs settle the meaning: I used to work nights against I am used to working nights, and the state against the process. Practice runs to thirty-one explained multiple-choice items in four sets, ten snapshots to sort into arrived against still travelling, six reveal cards, six repairs and five traps, and a five-week email trail from Tanvir's first job in a northern city puts every form in connected prose with a reason behind each choice. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the two-line board move, the two walls learners hit, and the Cambridge B2 First relevance.