D. WRITING

I. Rewrite each sentence or question so it has the same meaning.

1. Anna had long hair when she was at school.

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2. Mary didn't listen when her teachers were speaking.

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3. Ricardo got up at 6.00 when he was training for the Olympics.

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4. What did you usually do on Saturday evenings?

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5. Sophie was afraid of dogs when she was a little girl.

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6. We always gave our teachers presents at the end of term.

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7. Did you live next door to Mrs. Harrison?

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8. My brother wore glasses when he was young.

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II. Write statements, negatives or questions with “used to"

. 1. Susan/ have/ a dog?

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2. people/ use/ mobile phones

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PRONUNCIATION Read the Learn this! box. Write reply questions for statements 1, 3 and 5 and add question tags to statements 2, 4 and 6. Use the falling or rising intonation to practise saying the sentences.

1 That's a long time!

2 The Baltic coast is lovely.

3 There's more to do there.

4 We need quite a lot of money.

5 My parents will give me some money too.

6 That's kind of them.

Bài 2. Fill in the blank with “use, used to, be used to, or be used for” :

1. I often………..this pen to write my lessons.
2. I…………………… love Ann but now she gets on my nerves.
3. There…………… be a tree in front of my house.
4. They……………… A computer to do the most complicated calculations.
5. These bricks…………………… Building a new school .
6. That knife……………………. cut oranges.
7. American women……………… being independent.
8. Cheques and credit cards…………. storing wealth.
9. It took me a long time to…………wearing glasses.
10. Metal and paper…………………. making money.

* Use used to or didn’t use to with the verbs from the box to complete the sentences.

1. Mr. Dorothy ……………………………fishing, but now he is too busy to do it.
2. Victoria ……………………………short hair, but now her hair is long and wavy.
3. Those old secretaries ……………………………reports on computer, but now they do.
4. I miss my childhood when we ……………………………a lot of time playing hide and seek.
5. I ……………………………computer games. I can’t understand why many people like it.
6. I still remember the stories my grandmother ……………………………us when I came to visit her.
7. Cooper ……………………………on with the girl living next door, but now they are best friends.
8. At some point kids start doing things they ……………………………. They get more independent.
9. My sister ……………………………potato chips when she was younger. Now she likes them a lot.
10. He lived in France until he was six. He ……………………………French, but he’s forgotten a lot of it.

FILL IN THE BLANK WITH ONE SUITABLE WORD

Like most people, i've been using a mobile phone and a laptop (1)..........they became cheap to use, and i know plenty of people (2)...........to spend every evening using the Internet or playing computer games. (3).............,lately i have started to worry that(4).......these electronic gadgets are taking over our lives. (5).........people used to write letters and read books and worked out problems using theirs brains, but (6)..........most of us have become (7)............accustomed to using machines that we can't do without them. There are lots of people, (8)......example, who depend on them entirely for their entertainment. It's easier to sit (9)..........home taking to people (10)..........the phone, or watching television, rather than going out and meeting them (11)........... person!. I wonder whether this makes everyone feel more lonely, (12)............ though it is easier now to stay in touch with people. Of course, there are many other kinds of gadgets, such as electonic organizers or microwave ovens,(13)......... we use to save time, though they may not be really necessary . I'm (14) ............the idea of everything in life depending on the push of a button, though i think it's probably(15) .........late to avoid it

Write a sentence for each of the following using used to or didn’t use to.

1.      When Barbara was Intaly, she stayed with an Italian family.

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2.      I quite like drinking coffee in the morning, although I wasn’t keen on it when I was younger

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3.      We seem to have lost interest in our work.

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4.      I don’t mind travelling by train now.

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5.      I went to the church when I was a child.

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 * Use used to or didn’t use to with the verbs from the box to complete the sentences.

1. When I was a child I ………………………………of being an astronaut.
2. Tuberculosis – TB – ………………………………a lot of people. It was a fatal disease.
3. In many places in the world, people ………………………………cloth with natural materials.
4. The farmers in my home village ………………………………rice home on trucks. They used buffalo- driven carts.
5. In the countryside in Viet Nam, families ………………………………extended, i.e. three or more generations lived together in the same house.

Mark the letter A, B, c, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 8. People have used coal and oil to electricity for a long time.

A. bred

B. raise

C. cultivate

D. generate

Read the article about talking to people on the Internet. Are the statements 1-5 right (A), Wrong (B) or ‘Doesn’t say’ (C)? Write A, B or c next to each statement. (1 m).

Communication

The way we communicate with our friends has changed. These days, we have conversations on the computer or the mobile phone. We don’t write letters much more. We write emails instead. Internet sites like Facebook help us find old friends, talk with other people and join groups with similar interests. Facebook is also useful if you want to invite people to a party or a concert. The good thing is we can invite lots of people at the same time, so it's quicker and cheaper than sending lots of invitations.

26.We talk to each other in the same way as people did in die past.       ................

27. People use technology several times a day to communicate.             ................

28. Pcoplc write emails less now than they used to do.                           ................

29. You can find people from the past on the Internet.                           ................

30. The Internet is a quick way of inviting friends to a party.                 ................