My name is Alicia, and today we're going to practice talking about the past in English.

In this lesson, I'm going to focus on using used to and wood, and we'll practice a little bit of simple past tense as well.

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So, as I said, today's lesson is about talking about the past.

We're going to focus today on, like, the distant past.

So distant past means a long, long, long, long time ago.

So for most of us, probably childhood or maybe like your school days as well.

So that will be the focus for today's lesson.

Okay, I'm going to share the video and then I'm going to start today's lesson two.

We're going to begin today by looking at using used to.

And then I'm going to talk about wood.

And finally, I'm going to talk about how to use thes together.

So please send your example sentences throughout to the lesson I will try to check alive.

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Very sorry, but let's get it started.

Okay, let's begin by talking about used to used to ah, common question.

First, the pronunciation you will hear use to this d sound is very, very short and soft.

So you we generally do not say used two.

It sounds like use to it.

Sounds like used to in writing.

Some people say it's okay to use this spelling.

Uh, but others say no.

You should use this spelling.

I'll talk more about this later.

When you're talking about your own activities, you should say used to do with this spelling.

Um, I'll talk more about this point later.

The spelling point later.

For now, let's take a look at how we use used to.

So this is used to describe something that was true in the past, something that was true in the past but is not true now.

So I've made a visual here.

If you imagine this point, this star on the timeline is now This is the present time.

This is something.

It's not true now.

But a long time ago here in the past, it was true.

This is a check mark here.

So I mean, that's like, yes, that's true.

So this is something that was true a long time ago, but is not true now.

So your childhood or your school days when you were little, So we often use this as I said for those, uh, those points in time, your distant past, your childhood and we can use used to without a specific time period.

So we don't have to say like when I was a kid or when I was in school, because when we used used to, uh, it's often in a situation where we can understand from context so we can kind of begin a conversation with a used to statement.

I'll show some examples in a moment.

Finally, this is a key point.

A key difference between used to and wood.

Is this point right here we can use, used to.

To talk about status is so statuses or conditions.

That means we can use to be like I used to be something something we can use used to with a condition or a status.

This is a key difference because we can't do that with Wood.

I'll show some examples.

So let's look now at how we use used to to make statements.

So just making a basic sentence with used to to do that we use our subject.

So that means I he, she we and so on.

Plus used thio bless just the infinitive form of the vert.

No to just the plain verb form infinitive.

So some examples I subject used Thio.

Plus, we're play soccer.

I used to play soccer, So one problem I see from learners sometimes is they change the verb to past tense.

That's not correct.

Do not use the past tense for yes, I know it's a past action.

It's a past thing.

But for this grammar, we do not change the verb just by adding used to we can make a correct statement.

So please don't change your bird.

I used to play soccer.

That means I played soccer a long, long time ago.

Now I do not play soccer.

So used to communicates all of this.

In just those two words.

I used to play soccer.

Next example.

He used to hate bananas.

He used to hate bananas.

So and this is an example of like not necessarily an action, but a feeling so you can talk about your preferences.

What did you like?

What did you dislike when you were a kid or far in the past?

So in this case, my verb is hate.

He used to hate bananas.

So again, my verb does not change.

He used to hate used to hate and send your example Sentences to describe Something you used to do as well.

I'll try to check live in the check.

Okay, Next example Sentence is we We This might be common for many people.

We, uh, hard to see Maybe I know many of you are watching on mobile.

Sorry, I'll try to read clearly.

We used Thio take a family vacation every summer.

We used to take a family vacation every summer.

So again, this means in the past.

A long, long time ago.

This was true.

Now it is not true.

So now we don't take family vacations every summer.

That's what this communicates the final example here.

This is a status.

So I mentioned we can use use due to talk about a condition to talk about a status.

So I used to be a teacher.

For example.

I used to be a teacher.

So here we've used be Yeah.

So be is in the same place as just the regular verb.

Yeah.

So this follows the same pattern as the other example sentences we looked at.

I used to be a teacher, so we cannot use wood in this way.

this sentence means.

A long time ago I was a teacher.

But now I am not a teacher.

That's what these all communicate with.

Used too many examples.

Air coming.

I will check YouTube examples.

Leah says.

I used to hate avocados.

Now I just don't like them.

That's funny.

Okay.

Uh, Rama says I used to hate vegetables.

Good.

Okay.

Walleyed says.

I used to read storybooks.

Good.

Tica says.

I used to fight with my brother.

Great.

John says I used to sing country music.

Good.

Ed says I used to drink rainwater.

Really interesting.

A Rojas says I used to be skinny.

Is it correct?

Yes.

That is a grammatically correct sentence.

Great.

Ah, shit.

Deep says I used to go to school.

Okay.

On Facebook, then.

Let's see.

Ramsey has a question used to is like a habit.

Ah, habit or some kind of common action.

So maybe you did it in your school days.

Your hobby, for example, or yes, a habit as well.

So it's something that was regular for you a long time ago.

So not just something that happened one time we do not use.

Used to for a one time action something that happened regularly.

Like Okay.

Uh, other examples from Facebook.

I used to play video games.

Great.

Very nice.

Okay, uh, I used to play games.

I used to play video games.

You have me to I used to play video games.

I used to play hide and seek.

Okay.

Uh, okay.

There's some interesting examples on both sides.

Now, let's go to the last part for this.

This part of the lesson about questions?

Sometimes you want to make a question with used to.

It's not super common to make a question like an information question with used to, but here is how we do it.

We use a double U H.

Question.

So who, what, When, Where, For example.

So for example, what did plus your subject.

So you he she used thio and the infinitive.

Er, for example, where did you used to play?

Where did you use to play?

So this might be a follow up question to this.

I used to play soccer, says person a person be might follow up with Oh, where did you use to play?

So this is probably something I would probably ask a simple past tense question.

Uh, But you might hear someone use this pattern.

Like to recognize that the other person, no longer they don't do that anymore.

You might hear this personally.

I would probably use a simple past tents.

Where did you play?

So it's kind of up to you, but right here, this is thes spelling points that I mentioned earlier in questions like this.

Where did you use to play the D sound?

Pretty slick.

It's so so soft.

When I asked the question and you'll sometimes see people drop it, drop the D in spelling like, uh, in writing if you write this question to someone.

So I've researched this.

Like, what?

Is it correct?

Is it incorrect?

And the general guide right now is you can choose but always make the same choice.

So keep in mind, this is questions, questions on Lee.

So where did you use to play?

If you're making a question?

I've read some people say it's okay to remove the dean personally.

I would prefer to keep it.

I prefer to keep it to make it clear.

Okay, last last last point Here is this.

So this there to hear actually, these air confirmation questions So a confirmation question is a question you can use to check something.

So we used.

Did or did it?

We can use a positive or a negative to do this, plus our subject.

He she you bless Youse do.