Habits in the past (1st year)

Past habits

index

9. a quote

5. The past simple

1. A cartoon in English

10.online exercises +a video for 2nd year

2. A video in English with the rules

6. USED TO

3. A tuto de huito

11. A quote

7. WOULD

12. Have you got any questions?

4. Three ways to express habits in the past

8. eXAMPLES WITH MOVIES

A cartoon in EnglIsh

A video with great examples

another video in English

A video with the rules

A tuto de huito

For students who need a video in French

3 ways to express habits in the past

1. The past simple

Celui-ci s'emploie tout simplement avec l'adjonction de l'adverbe de temps : "usually" ou autres: every day, twice / once a week , for + a period of time..etc.

Exemple: When I was a child I usually visited my grandmother twice a week.Lorsque j'étais enfant je rendais habituellement visite à ma grand-mère 2 fois par semaine.

Examples in English:

2. USED TO

Avec "used to", il est question d'habitudes révolues, c'est à dire qu'elles n'existent plus.Elles appartiennent complètement au passé. Elles ne sont plus vraies maintenant.

Il est à noter que "use" se conjuge comme n'importe quel autre verbe.

3. would

"Would" exprime aussi des habitudes, des activités réalisées avec une certaine régularité dans le passé (repeated actions).

Il véhicule exactement la même notion que "Used to", celle d'une action habituelle ou répétée dans le passé.

Exemples:1) He would walk his dog every morning when he lived in London. 2) She would arrive late whenever she used the subway. 3) That's the kind of thing I would do when I was a teenager.

"Would" ne peut en aucun cas être utilisé avec un verbe d'état, un verbe exprimant le goût (les non-action verbs) ou un verbe exprimant un état permanent.

Exemples: 1) When I was a child I would love climbing trees. 2) As I was a teenager I would be shy. 3) A few years ago I would have several cats.

... I used to love climbing trees.... I used to be shy. ... I used to have several cats.

Examples with movies

"Dear humans, in case you forg0t, I used to be your internet"

The LIBRARY

online exercises

Exercise 4

Exercise 1

Exercises on "Used to" and "Would"

A series of 3 exercises

Exercise 2

Exercise 5

The same but different!

An exercise by Oxford Universtity Press

Exercise 6

Exercise 3

The same but different!

"Used to" in statements and questions

A video for second year students

An exercise

"As a child, I would just question things".

Elon Musk

Have you got any questions?

Here are the lyrics!

Listen to this cool song by Gotye: "Somebody that I used to know"