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1 reading • Crazes 1 LangUagE FocUS • used to
I can identify the purpose of a text.
I can talk about past habits and states.
Exercise 3
THINK! How do crazes start? Who can make money from them? 1 Study the sentences from the interview on 3 Look at the pictures of Michael in the past Focus on the pictures and elicit which
page 12. Then choose the correct answers to and Michael now. Use the ideas in 1–6 to shows the present and which shows the
C r r a z z y y C r r a e s s People used to watch the best pole-sitters. Use affirmative and negative forms of used to. past. Students write sentences about what
write sentences about his life ten years ago.
C a
C
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complete the rules.

a
e
Michael used to do. With weaker classes,
Before, people didn’t use to have smartphones.
live in London
He didn’t use to live in London.
Did people really use to buy pet rocks?
Michael was students could work in pairs for this. Check
An interview with Miley Jones, RULES at home in answers with the class.
an expert on the history of crazes
1 We use used to + infinitive when we talk about New York. answErs
a regular action or state in the past which we
HOW DO CRAZES START? do / don't do now. 1 Michael didn’t use to work in an office.
Well, crazes generally start in 2 The negative form is didn’t use to / didn’t used to. 2 He didn’t use to have longer hair.
the playground when we’re 3 The question form is Did … use to / Did … used to . 3 He used to live in the USA.
young. We see someone
doing something fun and IS THAT HOW CRAZES BECOME SO 4 He didn’t use to wear smart clothes.
obviously we want to join them. POPULAR QUICKLY? 2 Complete the online article with the words in 5 He used to wear glasses.
Absolutely! Things can quickly become a the box. Michael is now at
WHAT WAS THE STRANGEST craze. Before, people didn’t use to have work in London. 6 He used to like playing games.
CRAZE? smartphones, but now we can post online didn’t to use used used
Pole-sitting, probably. In 1924, games scores or photos immediately. Exercise 4 UsE IT!
Alvin Kelly sat on a pole for HOME ABOUT CONTACT ARCHIVES
thirteen hours. Amazingly, it WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE CRAZE? Focus on the words in the box and check
became popular, and people used Pet rocks. In the 1970s, Gary Dahl started In the 1920s, dance marathons used to be that students understand cry. Read out the
to watch the best pole-sitters. The selling a pet rock in a special box with popular in the USA. People 1 to example sentence and elicit one or two
record was twenty-one days. instructions. compete for prizes in competitions which more examples from the class. Students
HOW DO CURRENT CRAZES DIFFER DID PEOPLE REALLY USE TO BUY lasted for weeks. People 2 use 1 work in an office 4 wear smart clothes then write their true and false sentences
2 have longer hair
5 wear glasses
FROM PAST CRAZES? PET ROCKS? to dance perfectly all the time, but they 3 live in the USA 6 like playing games
Things like toys and card-collecting Yes, they did. Apparently, he sold always moved their feet. And they didn’t about their past habits. Encourage them to
3
used to be popular. Now crazes often millions of them. No one really to dance twenty-four hours a 4 USE IT! Write true and false sentences use both affirmative and negative forms.
start online, when people see and knows what the next craze will be. day. They rested for fifteen minutes every about your past habits. Use affirmative and With stronger classes, students could
copy funny ideas for photos or videos hour. The competitors used 4 negative forms of used to and the words in the box.
on social media. eat twelve times a day for energy. use their own ideas as well as the ideas in
be be interested in cry go the box.
have like play watch
1 Read the interview with an I used to watch cartoons with my sister when I was Ask two students to read out the example
expert on crazes. What is the little. dialogue. Point out to students that they
purpose of the article? Work in pairs. Read out your sentences. Guess can ask their partner for more information
a to give information whether your partner’s sentences are true or before they decide if each sentence is
b to sell digital products false. true or false. Students then work in pairs
c to help people start a new craze I used to watch cartoons with my sister when I was little. to read their sentences and decide if their
2 1.08 Read and listen to the interview again. What cartoons did you use to watch? partner’s sentences are true or false.
Write questions for answers 1–5. 3 VOCaBULary pLUs Use a dictionary to
1 In 1924. (When ?) check the meaning of the words in blue in The Minions. I think that’s true! Ask who guessed all the true and false
the text.
2 For thirteen hours. sentences correctly. Ask some students
(For how long ?) 4 Use IT! Work in groups. Say what you Finished? to tell the class something they learned
3 On social media. (Where ?) think of the crazes in the interview. Take a Write questions to ask a partner about his / her about their partner.
4 He sold pet rocks. (What ?) vote on which is the silliest, the strangest and past habits using Did you use to … ? and the
5 Millions. (How many ?) the most fun. topics in exercise 3 on page 11. answErs
Students’ own answers.
12 Fads and fashions Fads and fashions 13
Finished?
Language focus • 1 don’t do 2 didn’t use to Refer fast finishers to the Finished?
answErs
used to 3 Did … use to activity. Students can write their questions
individually and ask and answer them
with another fast finisher. Alternatively,
aim Language note ask them to read their questions to
Talk about past habits and states. We use used to for things we did the class. Ask other students to answer
regularly in the past: I used to go the questions.
swimming every week. We use the past
warm-up simple, NOT used to, for something that More practice
Ask students what they can remember we did only once in the past: I went Workbook page 9
about the crazes in the interview on swimming last Saturday. (NOT I used to Practice Kit Grammar 1
page 12. Elicit a few answers from go swimming last Saturday.) Assessment
individual students. Ask: Do people buy pet Five-minute test, Teacher’s Resource Disk
rocks now? (no). Write on the board: People
used to buy pet rocks. Underline the verb Exercise 2
and ask students to translate the sentence Students complete the online article with
into their own language. the correct words. Check answers with the
class and use the answers to reinforce the
Exercise 1 rules for using used to.
Students study the sentences and choose answErs
the correct answers to complete the rules. 1 used 2 didn’t 3 use 4 to
With weaker classes, students could
work in pairs for this. Check answers with
the class.

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