Blast from the Past!
Life changes fast! Think about the DR or the US 15 years ago. No TikTok, no Uber, and cell phones had buttons! 📱
In English, when we talk about past habits that are NOT true anymore, we use a special structure.
What will you learn? 🎯
- ✅ Affirmative: I used to play baseball.
- ✅ Negative: I didn't use to have a smartphone.
- ✅ Questions: Did you use to watch cartoons?
- ✅ Comparing past and present life.
Warm-up: Look & Listen 🎧
Compare these two periods of time:
Past: "In 2005, I used to go to an internet café to check my MySpace."
Present: "Now, I check Instagram on my phone every 5 minutes."
Does the past action happen now? No! That's why we use "Used to".
Grammar Guide 📚
1. Affirmative (+)
Use it for things you did frequently in the past.
Subject + used to + Base Verb
Example: "I used to play 'escondite' (hide and seek) with my neighbors."
2. Negative (-)
Subject + didn't use to + Base Verb
⚠️ CRITICAL: No "D" in 'use' because 'didn't' already shows the past.
✅ I didn't use to like onions.
❌ I didn't used to.
3. Questions (?)
Did + Subject + use to + Base Verb?
Example: "Did you use to watch 'El Club de Vitico'?"
Exercise 1 of 40
Answer Review 🧐
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