HABITS

unit 9

Expressing habit

The good old days

06/10/18

Present habits

01

Adverbs of frequency

Usually

Normally

Sometimes

Present continous

02

Habits happening more often than is usual

Sheldom habits

Sheldom is always over reacting to common things

Friends annoying habits

Joe is constantly ckacking his knuckles. Rosse is always overpronouncing every single word.

Will and would

03

Typical behaviour

Unpleasant

Pleasant

habit

habit

He'll sit at his computer for hours on end My granny 'd comb my hair for hours

She would spend all day long gossiping with the neighbours . the children will come into the house with their moddy shoes on.

Be used to...

04

past habit or state

Negative and questions:

Past action or state:

Where did you use to go? We didn't use to do anything interesting.

Not equivalent in the past.

never used with a time reference +number We used to have holidays there for 10 years. In narratives: Series of past actions: it's common to beging with used to and continue with would. When I was a child, my faily and I used to go on holiday to the seaside. We'd play on the beach, then we'd eat at a small café at lunchtime.

Habit When I was a child, my faily and I used to go on holiday to the seaside. State My grand parents used to live in a large house.

Be / get used to + noun + ing form

05

No longer difficult action

Be / get used to:

meaning: familiar with

Now that I have been living in Egypt for ten years I am used to the heat. I don't think I will ever get used to eathing healthy.

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Present continuos

habit which happens more often than usual

He always smokes a cigarete when having a coffee. (fact) He is always smoking a cigarrette when having a coffee. (it annoys the person)

• There is uaually an elemnet of critism with this structure
• There is usually and adverb of frequency.

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Will

Will can be used to talk about people's habitual actions or their characteristic behaviour.

• He will spend hours at a time on the Internet.
• (= He habitually spends hours at a time on the Internet.)

Will can be stressed (emphasised) in a sentence. This expresses criticism of a habitual action or characteristic.

Frequency Adverbs

Remember

* Adverbs come before the main verb +but After the verb to be. We hardly ever go out on weekends. She frequently forgets what she's doing.

• Sometimes
• usually
• normally
• occasionally can come at the beginning or at the end.

Would

Would is used to talk about people's habitual actions or their characteristic behaviour in the past. My mum would go really quiet when she was angry.

• Would cannot be used to express

a state