Used to, be used to and get used to- discuss and agree
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students make sentences about past habits or getting accustomed to things that are true for both of them, using the typical used to sentence stems to help.
Lesson Plan Content:
Used to, be used to and get used to discuss and agree
Give your opinion and ask for your partner’s opinion to complete as many of the sentences below as you can with opinions that you share. If you have different opinions and can’t convince each other, change sentence and/ or topic and try again.
We think that the most difficult thing about living abroad would be getting used to ___
_____________________________________________________________________.
We think that (young) people (nowadays) have got too used to ___________________
_______________________ and they would benefit from some time without it/ them.
Life used to be easier (in terms of ____________) _____________________________.
It isn’t as easy to get used to ___________________________ as most people think.
It’s easier to get used to _____________________________ than most people think.
Kids _______________________________________________________ in the past.
Teens and tweens _________________________________________ in the ______s.
Families ______________________ less (________________) in previous generations.
It’s more difficult to get used to __________ than it is to get used to living on your own.
Old people find it difficult to get used to _____________, but young people find it easy.
People didn’t use to be so stressed/ unhappy/ worried (about___________________) until ________________________________________________________________.
People didn’t use to _____________________________________________________ (so much), and that was probably a good thing.
_____________________________________ is easy for most people to get used to.
We think foreign people have difficulty getting used to _____________ in our countries.
If __________________ changed, it would be tough for most people to get used to it.
Share some ideas with another group or the whole class and try to find:
- things which you wrote which other groups didn’t
- things that other people also agree with
Ask about any sentences that you couldn’t complete, working together as a class to complete them each time.
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