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Lets Start! Lets Explore! Lets Practice! Extension Activity Target Words Learning Points
Lets Start!
Describe routines and regular activities I can talk about rooms and objects in them.
in a wider range of social and work I can talk about past and present habits.
contexts. I can offer advice and solutions.
Lets Explore!
Vanessa and Marco argue ... who says whatever pops into their head*?
* When you say whatever pops into your head, you say things without thinking first.
Vanessa: It's my way or the highway? You'd better take that back, Marco. I never let
other people tell me what to do like that.
Marco: You're so touchy, V. Just take it easy.
Vanessa: I'm being perfectly reasonable. You ought to think before you speak, you
know. My mother would say, If you can't say anything nice, don't say
anything at all.
Marco: My mother used to say that, too. You might want to hear yourself before you
recklessly accuse me of being insensitive. You said my mother was strange!
Vanessa: You have selective hearing, Marco. I meant her advice was strange ...
Marco: Hmm ... you cleverly got out of that one, didn't you? What's this here?
Vanessa: It's my antique sewing machine ... my grandmother used to use it.
Marco: She would make clothes from this? Wow - it's ancient!
Vanessa: There you go again - rudely saying whatever pops into your head!
Marco: Why is it in the kitchen, anyway? Shouldn't it be in a sewing room?
Vanessa: Does it look like I have a sewing room?
Marco: Honestly, I don't know ... you ought to give me a tour.
Extension Activity
Target Words
Learning Points
Offering Advice
Giving advice in English might seem tricky at first. To talk about what is advisable (what you
think should be done), we use had better, ought to and might want to.
Subject + ought to + verb: You ought to think before you speak, you know.
When you talk about regular events in the past, you can use used to or would. These are
alternative forms from the Simple Past + Adverbs of frequency.
My grandmother used to like sewing. She would sew for ours.
Used to is used for actions (study, work, talk, read, etc.) and for states, or permanent
events in the past (be, have, like, think).
Would is used for actions only. We never use it to talk about past condition.
Example: