Past Habits Used To Would Past Simple - Grammar Question Practice
Practise past habits used to would past simple through personal questions and paired speaking at B2 level. Includes a model exchange, follow-up support and a communicative task; answers are open-ended.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model exchange
- Topic-based partner questions
- Follow-up support
- Communicative pair practice
Distinguish repeated past actions, past states and one-off events in a memory.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or invented responses can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Identify living by the sea as a past state and walking as a repeated action in the grandparent example.
- Discuss childhood routines, beliefs and important people; separate traditions from the unusual event or newly received object prompts.
- Tell a memory with a clear time setting, a state, two repeated actions and one turning point; let a partner retell it.
Support and extension
Use used to for past states and habits, and would for repeated actions within an established past context. Avoid extending habitual would to continuing states indiscriminately.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
