USED TO, GET USED TO, BE USED TO

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 As some of you  requested a couple of weeks ago, here you have an online exercise for you to get a little  bit of extra practice on the use of these frequently confusing grammar  items. Click on
The Grammar Aquarium  and  do it.

The seven-letter game

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Wanna play for a while? Try this game, but please, watch out! It can be addictive.Click here


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Watch loads of videos on different topics

 

 On this site you can select from a number of videos dealing with varied and interesting topics. Many of them may be helped with subtitles, though it is unnecessary. Enjoy it! Excellent idea for a 10-minute session of listening practice just before exams.:)The website is TED.

Verb tense Practice

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Let me give you a bit of extra practice on the verb tenses we all know.
Hope you do well , ok?


http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs29practicetest.htm

A list with the main STATIVE VERBS!

  Here  I have made a list with verbs that  might well fall under the category of "STATIVE" as they do represent a "state" so that you can decide on the right verb when dealing with USED TO or WOULD sentences for habits in the past.

STATIVE VERBS  fall into four groups:
Verbs Showing Thought or Opinions
know
believe
understand
recognize
Verbs Showing Possession 
have
own
belong
possess
Verbs Showing Senses
hear
smell
see
feel
Verbs Showing Emotion
love
hate
want
need


If you are unsure of whether a verb is an action verb or a stative verb ask yourself the following question:
Does this verb relate some sort of process or a state? If it relates a process, then the verb is an action verb. If it relates a state, the verb is a stative verb.

Main difference between "WOULD/ USED TO" as a habit in the past.

In relation to  the grammar item dealt with in class last week, let me give you a much clearer explanation  of the real differences between 'would' and 'used to'   and some  extra practice on them.

 
We only use 'would' to describe actions or situations that were repeated again and again and again...
But we use 'used to' for any extended action or situation in the past.

'Would' is only good for actions or situations that were repeated many times;
'Used to ' is good for any action or situation that continued for a period of time in the past, including repeated actions or situations.

To make this clearer, let's look at the three examples of 'used to' sentences, and see if we can change them into 'would' sentences.


Here's the first example again:
"I used to live in Manchester, but I moved to London last year."

Can we use 'would' instead of 'used to' here?
No, we can't, because 'living in Manchester' wasn't repeated again and again and again. It's simply a situation in the past. Therefore, only 'used to' is good in this sentence.

The second example again:
" When he was at school, he used to play football every Saturday."

Here, we're talking about 'playing football every Saturday'. This is an action that was repeated many times, so we can also say:
"When he was at school, he would play football every Saturday".
'Used to' and 'would' are both good here, and the meaning is the same.

Finally, the third example again:
"She used to hate her job until she got a promotion."

Did she 'hate her job' many times?
No, this isn't a repeated action, so in this example 'would' isn't possible. We have to use 'used to'. 



Here you have a  couple of  links where to  get a bit of extra practice on "used to" or " would".

 http://www.inglesmundial.com/A2/grammar.htm

 http://englishdailyworkout.blogspot.com/2011/04/used-to-and-would-exercise-past-habits.html

Hope everything is  a lot clearer  after all this!