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7 You've Got Mail! 11 Form, Meaning and Function Simple Past with Used to Use used to for past states, habits and situations that are no longer true. رابط الدرس الرقمي www.ien.edu.sa Morse, the inventor of the telegraph system, used to be a professor at New York University. He used to teach arts and design. People used to communicate by telegraph. Telegraph companies used to dispatch telegraphs by train across the United States. Yes/No Questions (?) Answer Did you use to have a blue car? Yes, I did. I sold it three years ago. Did they use to play football every week? No, they didn't. The used to play tennis. Used to and Would We can also use would in place of used to for past habits but we cannot use would for past states. In ancient times, people would shout messages to the next tower in order to pass on information through the area. People used to have very powerful voices in those days! INCORRECT: People would have very powerful voices. Information Questions (?) How did people in the Americas use to transmit messages? Why did people use to shout from signal towers? What did you use to do when you were young? Answer They used smoke signals. They wanted to pass on messages. I used to ride my bike in the park. A. Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. Use used to, would and didn't use to. My grandparents often tell me that life before the Internet was very different to how it is nowadays. When my grandfather was young, he He told me that in those days, people wall of the house. People They Moreover, people (1. have) a computer, laptop, tablet or even a cell phone! (2. speak) to people on a phone that was fixed to the (3. use) their phones to take digital images. (4. take) photos with a camera that needed a special roll of film. They (5. print) the photos on a special kind of paper and put them in a photo album. paper maps to get to places! They also. newspapers which a paper boy (6. find) information in books, and they (8. read) paper (9. deliver) to their house. My grandfather said it was just like getting a printed Internet on their doorstep every morning! These days it is much quicker to find information and stay in touch, but life before the Internet sure sounds amazing! B. Work with a partner. Talk about what your grandparents used to and didn't used to do. (7. use) actual pulc110ljg Ministry of Education 2024-1446 MG_01_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 110 30/4/24 2:02 AM

وزارة التعليم There is/There are Singular nouns There is a phone message for you. Plurals Regular nouns Plural nouns There are lots of unanswered emails in my inbox. For most regular nouns we add -s to form the plural. If the noun ends in -s, -ch, -sh, -o, or -x, we add -es. For regular nouns that end in -y, we usually drop the 'y' and add -ies for the plural. For regular nouns that end in -f or -fe, we change the ending to -ves. letter-letters card-cards email-emails inbox-inboxes business-businesses watch-watches city-cities company-companies story-stories leaf-leaves wife-wives life-lives Note: If the noun has a vowel before the final -y then we add an -s: boy-boys; day-days; donkey-donkeys, etc. Irregular nouns man-men woman-women child-children tooth-teeth Definite Article: The foot-feet mouse mice deer-deer fish-fish Use the definite article the before singular and plural nouns when we know what or who we are referring to. The children at the local school got some new computers. Use the definite article the for objects that are one of a kind: the Internet, the sun, the Masmak Fortress, the Holy Qur'an. C. Look at the picture. Write sentences to describe the different ways people communicate. Compare with a partner. There is a man writing an email on a computer, D. With a partner, talk about how you stay in touch with family and friends. Is this the same or different to when you were younger? Why? Lunch Special Ministry of Education 2024-1446 MG_01_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 111 111 30/4/24 2:02 AM