Date: 04/11/2014

Class Level: 1st Year Baccalaureate

Class Period: 50min
Textbook: Ticket To English
Unit: 2
Lesson Type: Grammar

School: Al khawarizmi High School

Class Size: 40
Lesson: Used to
Teacher: Almallam Boujemaa
Title: Society
Integrated skill: reading, writing and speaking

Standard: language development

Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

Use and practise Used to

Talk about habits in the past
Talk about situations that were true in the past

Material: textbook, chalk, blackboard, handouts

Time
05min

10min

Procedure
Warm up
greet students
Lead-in to the topic of the lesson.
Get students think about their past experiences through asking questions about their habits
such as: what sport did you play when you were children? What did you like when you were
children? What did not you like when you were at primary school? Which school subjects did
you like most in primary school? What type of TV programs did you watch?
The teacher asks volunteers to remember events and activities in their childhood and writes
down sentences on the blackboard as well as the names of the students who provided the
sentences to refer to later
Presentation
Ahmed: when I was a child, I lived in Casablanca.
T: Introduce used to.
Ahmed used to live in Casablanca when he was a child, but he lives in SouK Sebt now.
Students read the text and answer the focus questions.
1. How many languages did Bassou speak before he was seven?
2. How many languages does he speak now?
Key: 1. He spoke one language 2. He speaks three languages.

Techniques
Q/A
Eliciting

BB

BB
handout
skimming

T: Bassou used to speak one language, but he speaks three languages now.
25min

Practice
Task 1
Look at the sentences bellow and write similar sentences using information from the text.
At 7, Bassou used to speak only Amazigh.
He did not use to live in the city.
He.
He.
Life..
It
Task 2
The teacher provides situations in which students can use used to to make complete
sentences.
what Leila says 4 years ago
what Leila says 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.

peer work

sentence
completion

Im a secretary.
Im now working as a social worker.
Make sentences with used to
Example:
Leila used to live in a big house with her family, but now she lives alone in a small apartment.
1.
but, . .
2.
but,
Task 3
Match the beginning of each sentence with the correct ending.
I used to go to school here
until computer games become popular.
I didnt use to understand mathematics
until I gave up smoking.
SouK Sebt used to be a small village
when I was young in the 2006
I used to live in Beni Mella
until I bought an alarm clock.
Children used to play outdoors much
before I moved to Souk Sebt.
more
I didnt use to eat much sweets
when I was at school; we had a terrible
teacher.
I never used to get up on time
but now it is a city.

matching

Students study the sentences with used to and choose the correct option.
we use used to to talk about

10min

1) Habits in the past.

2) Habits in the present.
3) Habits in the future.
Production
Students write four sentences each about their past habits and share them with their
partners. The teacher asks students to read their sentences and encourages peer correction.
Subjects you liked most in the past.
Movies you watched most in the past.
Things that existed in your city and no longer exist now.

peer
correction