Grammar "Used to" and tag-questions

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson plan

• Rules
• Lesson aims
• Grammar explanation + exercises
• Recap lesson aims
• Homework

Rules

• Respect
  
• Silence when I speak
  
• Silence when I raise my hand
  
• Phone IN bag
  
• Raise your hand for questions/answers

Lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Correctly explain and use "used to" in a sentence;
• Correctly use "tag-questions".

Grammar: Used to

• "Used to" + Infinitive
• To say what used to happen in the past
• "I used to go to the zoo every thursday, but they closed last month."
• "He used to be sad, but then he met her."
• "Before they moved to the US, we used to hang out often."

Grammar: Used to

• Exercises:
• He - of becoming an artist. (dromen)
• They - English, but now it's their favorite subject. (haten)
• She - chess. (houden van)
• Winter - way colder. (zijn)
• He - Young Adult literature. (alleen - lezen)

Grammar: tag questions

• What are tag questions?
• Do we use them in Dutch? Examples?
• "Toch?" "Hé" "Of niet?"
• Used to verify if you are correct.
• For example: "Your name is John, isn't it?"

Grammar: tag questions

How to use them:

• After a positive sentence, use a negative tag question;
• For example: Today is Wednesday, isn't it?"
• After a negative sentence, use a positive tag question;
• For example: That isn't true, is it?

Grammar: tag questions

In the tag question you repeat the following verbs:

• Forms of "to be", "to have", "can" and "could"
• If none of these are in the sentence, use: correct form of "to do".
• The subject of the tag question is the personal pronoun:
• I, you, he, she, it, they, we, you or there

Grammar: tag questions

Exercises:

1. There isn't anything we can do, ...? 
2. Your car is red, ...? 
3. We are up next, ...? 
4. Grammar is useful, ...? 
5. I need not help, ...? 
6. You all understand this grammar, ...? 
7. English is the best subject, ...?
8. They did not drive all the way here for me, ...? 

Recap lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Correctly explain and use "used to" in a sentence;
  
• Correctly use "tag-questions".

Homework

This week finish:

The entire chapter of 2.4

Next week finish:

2.5 using the grammar of this lesson