Teacher: Abderrazzak HASSAR Class level: First Year Baccalaureate

Textbook: Ticket To English Class size:

Unit 2: Society Lesson type : Grammar
Title: Used to School : EL Ijtihad

Class period : 1 hour Date :

 General Objective(s): Students will be able to express past habits using “used to”.
 Students Performance Objectives (SPO): By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
 Recognize the use and form of “used to”;
 Use the target structure by providing dialogues/interviews in the exploitation stage.
 Material(s): Textbook and BB.

Time Procedures Techniques

5 Warm-up
minutes -T greets SS Greeting
-T: Welcome to my class.
-T asks one of the SS to write the date on the BB.
25 Presentation:
minutes - T sets the scene and creates a need for SS.
- T: I had a car. Now, I don’t have it. Setting the scene
-T: Which verb do we have in both sentences? And tense?
-S1: Have in the past.
-S2: Do in the present.
-T: So we have the simple past and the simple present. Can you link the two
sentences?
-SS provide their answers. Contextualization
-T presents the TS: I used to have a car, but now I don’t.
-T writes the title of the lesson on the BB. “Used to”
-T asks SS to open their textbooks and read the dialogue provided on page 28.
- T asks SS to underline the expression “used to” along with the verb.
-T What were Lucy’s past holiday habits?
-T elicits answers from SS and writes them on the BB. Dialogue
 We used to spend a month there every summer.
 We used to get up early and walk along the beach. Eliciting
 I used to have a swim before breakfast.
-T asks SS about the form of “used to” and then writes it on the BB.
Form:
Subject + Used to + bare infinitive
NB: For the negative form, we use the auxiliary did + not + use.
For the interrogative form, we use the auxiliary did. (Did you use to…..?).
Ex: 1. I did not use to study in a boarding school.
2. Did you use to smoke?
Use
-T presents the use of “used to” and writes it on the BB.
 We use “used to” to express:
- An activity that we did regularly in the past (like a habit)
- A situation that was true in the past (but no more in the present)
Checking comprehension
- I used to played basketball.
-T: What do you think? Negative
-SS: Wrong. checking
-T: Good. So what should we say?
-SS: I used to play basketball.
-T checks Ss’ comprehension.
 8 Practice:
minutes -T asks SS to complete the following sentences.
1. When I was younger, I used to…………………….
2. I used to……………………..after school. Completion drills
3. In primary school, I used to……………………………………..
4. In the evenings, my family and I used to……………………….
-T asks SS to come up with sentences based on the information given.
Four years ago Today
- I live in a big house with my family. - I live alone in a small apartment.
- I read short stories. - I read novels.
- I go to the cinema every weekend. - I rarely go to the cinema. Combination drills
- I’m a secretary. - I’m now working as a social worker.
Ex: Ahlam used to live in a big house with her family, but now she lives alone in a
small apartment.
1. …………………………………….but…………………………..
2. …………………………………….but…………………………..
3. …………………………………….but…………………………..
4. …………………………………….but…………………………..
5. …………………………………….but…………………………..
-T corrects with SS.
22 Exploitation:
minutes -T asks SS to write sentences about their life as a child and read them out to the
whole class (p: 29). Free examples
-T does not intervene unless SS need help in word finding difficulty.
Ex: When I was a child, I used to………………………..
-T asks SS to copy the lesson.

Prepared by: Abderrazzak HASSAR