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Lesson Plan February 2, 2024

Topic: Used To

In this lesson we will compare the structures be / get used to doing and used to / didn’t use to do 

Section A: be/get used to ...

We use the structure be used to something / be used to doing something when we say that something is normal for us, not strange or new:

• I get up early every morning to go to work. It isn’t something new or strange for me. I am used to getting up early.

• A: "How can you live in this building? There is so much noise"
  B: "It’s not a problem. I am used to it."

• Anu wasn’t used to the hot weather in Greece. She is from Finland.

• John is from England. He is used to driving on the left.

Section B: get used to something / get used to doing

We use the structure get used to something / get used to doing something when we say that something becomes normal for us.

• After living in Greece for a year, Anu got used to the hot weather.

• Robert had always lived with his parents. Then he went to university and started to live alone. It was strange at first, but he got used to it in the end.

• Sandra’s new boss was very demanding at first, but she got used to him.

Section C: used to do

We say I used to do something when we talk about something we did regularly in the past, but do not do it now. In the negative we say I didn’t use to do something:

• I used to live in a large city, but now I live by the seaside. I didn’t use to go swimming everyday.

Do not confuse this structure with be used to doing something.

Dialogue

A: What do you think of our cold weather? Are you used to it yet?
B: Yes, I got used to it very quickly. I used to live in Canada, you know.

Lesson Notes

• I write ten tanka every month.

• I was knitting a muffler for my granddaughter. It’s pink, the colour she likes.

Vocabulary

• Tanka; a Japanese poem in five lines and thirty-one syllables

Used to

• When do you use this phrase? “I am not used to getting up this early.”

• Imagine you usually wake up late, maybe around 9 in the morning. But one day, you have to wake up very early, maybe at 5 in the morning. This means that waking up so early is not something you are familiar with.

• Janet hardly ever goes out these days. She didn't use to spend so much time at home.

• Common phrase “spend time”; means to use or use up time doing something, or at a place

• I spent time with my mother this week.

• I spend time writing 10 tanka poems every month.

• Today, I spent time knitting a muffler for my granddaughter.

• Did you use to _____ a lot of textbooks when you were a student?

• Use / buy / have / read