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THEME 13 OLD TIMES

Listening

a) Listen to the podcast and choose the pictures which are described.

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a b a b

b) Listen to the podcast again and choose the correct option.

1. The sugar used to be very expensive, so the lower class ______.
a. used to eat only healthy food b. couldn’t buy it
2. Queen Elizabeth used to have black teeth because ______.
a. she used to eat lots of sweets b. sweets used to be good for health
3. The lower class used to blacken their teeth to ______.
a. look more beautiful b. look like rich people
4. In Venice, high platform shoes used to be fashionable because ladies wanted to ______.
a. look tall and beautiful b. protect their dresses from the muddy streets
5. The height of the platforms was a sign of ______.
a. wealth and power b. beauty and elegance

SPEAKING

Order the sentences to make a meaningful dialogue and act it out.

We used to gather in the evenings
How was your life then? and lit a campfire. We used to Did you use to live on a farm?
chat, sing songs, and tell stories.

Really? How did you use to enjoy Where did you use to live when
I used to live in a village. you were young?
yourselves?
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It was hard. Everything used to be quite
different. We didn’t use to have any Not actually. It was a nice
technological devices because we didn’t wooden village house.
use to have electricity. But we were happy.

English for Preparatory Class 155