Simple Present - When do we use it?
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Simple Past - When do we use it?
Tell me about a day in your life when you lived and worked in Saint Bart's......using the simple past.
Born and Bred in London
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We're going to talk about 'Used to do'. You could use this tense to talk about things that you did continually in the past but that you no longer do today....
Listen to the following audio
Questions from the audio
Where was Allen born?
Name the areas that you heard Allen say in the audio.
Where did Allen used to live when he was a child?
Where does he live now?
Here's the Transcript to help you understand.
you’re from?
Allen Roome: Right, I come from London. I was born in the West End. I don’t
remember much about that because we moved on to Kings Cross then we
moved up to Tufnell Park where I spent most of my life. I did move back to the
West End when I was a bit of a younger man, you know – to see what was
going on down there, obviously. And then I moved back to Tufnell Park and now
I’m in Islington. I suppose in all those – I had moved within that area; I suppose,
you could say that it’s a seven-mile square area that I never moved out of.
Interviewer: Good heavens. And can you tell me about any changes in this
area of, perhaps Tufnell Park in London where you were living most of the time?
Allen Roome: Well, yeah the Tufnell Park area, where I lived was just off of
Tufnell Park, in York Rise, what has changed greatly is the shops. There were all
different types of shops there. You could literally buy anything you needed in
general. Not furniture, but there was a couple of dairies there, a pub, off-licence,
there was a laundrette – Westerns they were called. They was a big company
when I was younger and we used to get what we called our bag washed there
and I had to pick it up on a Thursday. Number ninety-seven was always wet; I
remember that, yes.
Interviewer: You went and collected the wet laundry?
Allen Roome: We took it on Monday and collected it on Thursday and I can’t
remember how much it was. It was only sort of, in those days, coppers. It wasn’t
a great deal of money at all. But it was the sort of period of time when people
never had washing machines and that was the ideal sort of thing to do.
Interviewer: Yeah. And would you say your area, perhaps the area that you’re
living in now – Islington; is that famous for anything?
Allen Roome: I don’t think it’s all that famous for anything. Not the part I live in
anyway. The ex-prime minister lived there, Tony Blair. I don’t know what you
make of that if that’s famous or not. But I did think on it and there are some little
areas in there where I think there’s a lot of, sort of, actors and actresses live.
But I’m not into that sort of thing, so that passes me by.
Interviewer: And just tell me something about how people speak in your area of
north London, would you say.
Allen Roome: Well, it’s such a diversity there that you couldn’t say anybody
speaks, it’s a general accent or a general theme. What I do notice is the young
people now, they have this type of speak where they use a lot of American
phrases and things like this. I remember a kid a week or so ago. He was
shouting out ‘oh that is wickedly evil, man’. Which, that sort of terminology
comes from the United States of America. And that’s ‘cause they watch this
rubbish television.
Interviewer: What does that mean ‘it’s wickedly evil, man’?
Allen Roome: I think it’s supposed to mean it’s good, which it means obviously
the opposite. But that’s what they do. They do speak like that, you know.
TRUE OR FALSE
Listen to the audio again and decide whether the following statements are true or false
1. There are too many foreigners here.
2. I’ve lived in a lot of different parts of London.
3. I think celebrities are great.
4. I’m young and like going out a lot
5. I’ve seen a lot of changes in my life.
6. I enjoy being rich.
7. Young people watch too much television.
8. I really enjoyed living in America.
Create sentences from the information below using 'used to'.
You / buy / anything / Tufnell Park.
There / be / two dairies.
He / have / washing machine.
He / take washing home on the bus.
It / cost/ much money.
People / watch so many American films.
Answers:
You used to buy anything in Tufnell Park.
There used to be two dairies.
He didn’t use to have a washing machine.
He used to take the washing home on the bus.
It didn’t use to cost much money.
Tony Blair used to live in Islington.
People didn’t use to watch so many American films.
Is there anything that you usually used to do in Saint Bart's that you don't do here in France? Is there anything that you used to do when you were a child that you no longer do as an adult?
people now, they have this type of speak where they use a lot of American
phrases and things like this. I remember a kid a week or so ago. He was
shouting out ‘oh that is wickedly evil, man’. Which, that sort of terminology
comes from the United States of America. And that’s ‘cause they watch this
rubbish television.
Interviewer: What does that mean ‘it’s wickedly evil, man’?
Allen Roome: I think it’s supposed to mean it’s good, which it means obviously
the opposite. But that’s what they do. They do speak like that, you know.
TRUE OR FALSE
Listen to the audio again and decide whether the following statements are true or false
1. There are too many foreigners here.
2. I’ve lived in a lot of different parts of London.
3. I think celebrities are great.
4. I’m young and like going out a lot
5. I’ve seen a lot of changes in my life.
6. I enjoy being rich.
7. Young people watch too much television.
8. I really enjoyed living in America.
Create sentences from the information below using 'used to'.
You / buy / anything / Tufnell Park.
There / be / two dairies.
He / have / washing machine.
He / take washing home on the bus.
It / cost/ much money.
People / watch so many American films.
Answers:
You used to buy anything in Tufnell Park.
There used to be two dairies.
He didn’t use to have a washing machine.
He used to take the washing home on the bus.
It didn’t use to cost much money.
Tony Blair used to live in Islington.
People didn’t use to watch so many American films.
Is there anything that you usually used to do in Saint Bart's that you don't do here in France? Is there anything that you used to do when you were a child that you no longer do as an adult?
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