Extended family vocab
Who is a child of your aunt or uncle?
Your cousin.
Complete: I ______ (live) in Mexico when I was a child.
I used to live in Mexico when I was a child.
Complete: He ______ getting up early now (although it was hard for him at the beginning)
He is used to getting up early now.
Choose: ‘______ a good student, he studies every day.’ (as / such / like)
As a good student, he studies every day.
Who is your wife/husband (or boyfriend/girlfriend) that you're no longer in a relationship with?
Your ex (-wife, -husband, -boyfriend, -girlfriend)
True/False: ‘I used to can swim’ is correct.
False. Correct: I used to be able to swim / I could swim.
Complete: It took me a month to ______ the cold mornings.
It took me a month to get used to the cold mornings.
Complete: She is ______ a clever student that she got the scholarship.
She is such a clever student that she got the scholarship.
Who is a child of your sibling?
Your nephew/niece.
Rewrite correctly: ‘She used to going to the gym.'
Correct form: She used to go to the gym. (infinitive after used to)
Pick the correct form: ‘She’s used to / used to waking up early.’
Correct: She’s used to waking up early.
Correct the sentence: ‘He looks such his father.’
He looks like his father.
Who is the person who is married to your sibling?
Your brother-in-law/sister-in-law.
Make a negative sentence meaning ‘I no longer smoked’: use used to.
I didn’t use to smoke.
Change to a sentence with get used to: ‘Now I don’t mind the noise.’ (show process)
Example: I’ve got used to / I’m getting used to the noise.
Fill the gap: ‘She sings ______ a professional.’
She sings like a professional.
Explain the difference between a stepbrother and a half-brother.
A half-brother shares one biological parent with you (same mother or father), while a stepbrother shares no blood relation but is the son of your stepparent (your parent's spouse from a previous relationship).
Explain (short) why we use used to not was used to in past habitual sentences.
Explanation: used to + base verb describes a past habit/state that no longer continues; was/were used to means being accustomed to something (different meaning).
Explain the difference in meaning between ‘be used to + -ing’ and ‘used to + verb’ and give an example pair.
Explanation & examples: be used to + -ing = accustomed (e.g., I’m used to living in a city). used to + verb = past habit (e.g., I used to live in a village).
Explain the difference and give example sentences: as vs like (use at least one sentence each).
Difference: as often introduces a role/role-comparison or a clause: As your teacher, I advise you. Like compares similarity: You sing like an angel.