LINKERS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: due to, because of, owing to, thanks to... // Because, since, as, for ...

 

EXPLANATION 1: due to, because of, owing to and thanks to are followed by a noun.  Because, since, as, for are followed by a verb.

EXPLANATION WITH LOTS OF PICTURES

EXPLANATION WITH EXERCISES: University of Victoria

EXERCISE 1: QUIZZ

EXERCISE 2: QUIZZ

LOTS OF EXERCISES big letters, game-like (first play some with the class)

Past perfect simple versus Past perfect continuous

 

Explanation 1

Explanation 2 (Spanish)

Explanation 3 (Spanish)

Exercise 1: write the correct verb

Exercise 2: write the correct verb

Exercise 3: choose

Exercise 4: choose

Exercise 5: video quiz 📹

THE PAST SIMPLE, USED TO and WOULD

SHORT VIDEO EXPLANATION: WOULD versus USED TO

Explanation + exercise 1: Past habits: 'used to', 'would' and the past simple (choose)

Explanation in Spanish

Explanation by the British Council + two quizzes

Full Explanation:THE PAST SIMPLE, USED TO and WOULD

Would, Used To Or Simple Past QUIZ (12 questions)

Wordwall games (USED TO & WOULD)

Exercise 2: choose

Exercise 3: choose

Exercise 4: write the correct verb.

COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITES

👶 Back in the Day — Used to / Would / Past Simple

This could work really well with teenagers.

Write:

When I was 10...

Students talk in groups about:

School – Friends – Technology – Games – Food – Family – Free time

They must use all three structures:

I used to be really shy.
My friends and I would play football after school.
I got my first smartphone when I was eleven.

Then they find three things they have in common:

All three of us used to watch cartoons before school.

This creates a genuine information gap.

👵 When My Parents Were Teenagers

This is ideal for used to / would, because they're describing repeated past habits.

In groups, students imagine teenage life around 1995–2000.

Topics:
phones – dating – music – school – social media – going out – homework – TV

Teenagers didn't use to have smartphones.
They would call their friends on a landline.
They used to buy CDs.
They would meet their friends without texting them first.

Then:

Which generation had a better teenage life? Why?

 

USED TO versus BE USED TO and GET USED TO

 

Exercise 1:  'used to' + infinitive and 'be' or 'get used to' + '-ing': 1. Choose.

Explanation + exercise 2: choose

Explanation in Spanish + exercise 3

Lots of exercises in Agendaweb.org

youtube short videos🎥

BEEN versus GONE

Exercise 1 explanation + exercise

Exercise 2: choose

Exercise 3: choose