Ex. II. Turn the sentences into the negative form:

1. He used to be very patient with children.

2. At wartime people used to help each other a lot.

3. I never used to enjoy rap.

4. They used to book the seats in advance.

5. The students used to gather together after each school day to discuss their matters.

Ex. III. Which of these sentences can be completed with either “used to” or “would”? Which of them can only be completed with “used to”?

1. We ______________ live in a village in the North of Ukraine.

2. When Robert was younger, he ________________ go running every mourning.

3. When Andrew was a small baby, he ________ cry a lot.

4. When I was little, I ___________ be afraid of the dark.

5. When we were children, we ____________ visit my grandmother every Sunday afternoon.

6. When Mrs. Woods was younger, she ____________ play tennis every weekend.

7. Years ago I _____________ have a motorbike.

8. There _________ quite a lot of parks in the city, but now there are very few.

9. They ______________ sit together and chat for hours.

Ex. IV. Talk about your past habits. Start like …

1. I used to ……… when I was ………….

2. My family used to ……………………..

3. We would …………… for ……………

4. However, we never used to ……………

5. And you, did you use to ……………….. ?

Oral practice: This is New York

Ex. I. Pre reading questions:

How do you imagine New York? Describe it in 5-7 sentences. Use the prompts: skyscrapers, rush hour, overcrowded, lack of car parks, cosmopolitan, noisy, challenging.

Ex. II. Read the text and put down the names of the sights as you read.

This is New York The Big Apple

People often call New York 'The Big Apple'. Why? In the 1920s and 1930s, jazz musicians all wanted to work in New York.

'There are a lot of apples on the tree', they said 'but when you take New York City, you take the Big Apple!'

More than twenty million people visit New York every year. Lots of them say it is the most exciting city in the world.

When visitors think about New York, they usually think about Manhattan – an island 21.5 kilometres long and 3.7 kilometres wide. But New York has five 'boroughs': Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. The city has 10,000 kilometres of streets, and seven million or more people live here.

But New York was not always a big city…

In the beginning

Four hundred years ago, Manhattan island was the home of the Algonquin Indians. In 1609, a man called Henry Hudson came up the river to Manhattan. He was British but he was on a Dutch ship, The Half Moon. Today the river is called the Hudson river.

In 1626, a Dutchman called Peter Minuit came to Manhattan, and he paid the Indians about twenty-four dollars for the island. Minuit put up some houses, and called the little town New Amsterdam.

By 1647, about 500 people lived in New Amsterdam, and the Governor was a Dutchman called Peter Stuyvesant. But in 1664, the British took the town from the Dutch and changed its name to New York.

Ellis Island was the first stop for the 'New Americans' when they came to New York. All the ships bringing people from Europe to America stopped here.

The Brooklyn Bridge opened on 24 May, 1883, and thousands of New Yorkers came to see it. There were too many of them. The big crowd pushed some people off the bridge into the water; more men and women died under the feet of the crowd.