Ejercicios de used to en inglés con soluciones (inglés 3.º ESO) para descargar en PDF

Ejercicio 1. Elige la forma correcta ★★★

Elige la opción correcta.

1. My grandfather (used to / use to) work in a mine.
2. We (didn’t used to / didn’t use to) have a computer.
3. Did you (used to / use to) play outside?
4. She (used to / use to) hate carrots.
5. They (didn’t used to / didn’t use to) travel by plane.
6. I (used to / use to) share a room with my brother.

Ejercicio 2. Completa con used to ★★★

Completa con used to y el verbo entre paréntesis.

1. Valentina ___ (collect) football cards.
2. My aunt ___ (live) in Monterrey.
3. We ___ (walk) to school every day.
4. Santiago ___ (be) afraid of dogs.
5. Ximena and Joaquín ___ (play) chess after lunch.

Ejercicio 3. Frases negativas ★★★

Reescribe cada frase en negativa con didn’t use to.

1. I used to eat fish.
2. Leo used to wear glasses.
3. They used to have a car.
4. We used to go to the cinema on Fridays.
5. My dad used to like jazz.

Ejercicio 4. Ordena las palabras ★★★

Ordena las palabras para formar una frase.

1. to / my / the / grandmother / used / radio / listen / to
2. didn’t / have / use / we / to / mobiles
3. you / did / use / to / cycle / school / to ?
4. used / Bogotá / to / in / live / Mateo
5. to / didn’t / early / get up / use / I

Ejercicio 5. Une las mitades ★★★

Une cada principio con su final.

1. Before the internet,
2. There used to be
3. My brother didn’t use to
4. Did you use to
5. My cousins used to

1. eat vegetables.
2. spend summers in Sevilla.
3. go to bed late as a child?
4. people used to write letters.
5. a cinema where the car park is now.

Ejercicio 6. Hábito o hecho concreto ★★★

Elige la opción más natural. Used to marca «antes sí, ahora no» sin fecha precisa.

1. Yesterday Lucía (used to visit / visited) her grandmother.
2. I (used to live / lived) in Leeds for two years.
3. In 2019 we (used to go / went) to Dublin.
4. He (used to be / was) very shy, but now he loves talking.
5. When she was little, she (used to hate / hated) tomatoes, but now she loves them.
6. They (used to buy / bought) a new car last week.

Ejercicio 7. Preguntas con did ★★★

Completa cada pregunta con Did y use to.

1. ___ your parents ___ have a dog?
2. ___ Mateo ___ live near the sea?
3. ___ you ___ wear a uniform?
4. ___ she ___ speak Irish?
5. ___ they ___ watch cartoons?

Ejercicio 8. Corrige el error ★★★

Cada frase tiene un error. Escríbela bien.

1. I use to play the piano when I was ten.
2. Did you used to have a pet?
3. She didn’t used to like coffee.
4. We used to went to the park.
5. He used to visited his aunt on Sundays.
6. My grandad was used to walk to work.

Ejercicio 9. Traduce al inglés ★★★

Traduce al inglés con used to o didn’t use to.

1. Mi abuela vivía en un pueblo pequeño cerca de Cork.
2. Antes no teníamos wifi en casa.
3. ¿Ibas andando al colegio cuando eras pequeño?
4. Joaquín solía jugar al baloncesto, pero ahora prefiere el tenis.
5. Antes había un cine en esta calle.

Ejercicio 10. Traduce al español ★★★

Traduce al español.

1. Ximena used to be very shy.
2. My grandparents didn’t use to have a fridge.
3. Did the town use to have a market?
4. There used to be a river here.

Ejercicio 11. Used to o pasado simple ★★★

Completa con used to, didn’t use to o el pasado simple del verbo.

1. When I was a child, I ___ (hate) swimming, but now I love it.
2. Last summer Valentina ___ (visit) Toronto.
3. We ___ (not / have) a garden in Madrid, so we played in the street.
4. Mateo ___ (break) his arm in 2021.
5. ___ you ___ (be) friends with Lucía at primary school?
6. My neighbours ___ (move) to Auckland two weeks ago.

Ejercicio 12. Pregunta y respuesta corta ★★★

Marta vivía en Sevilla en 1975. Escribe la pregunta con Did … use to y responde según el dato entre paréntesis.

1. Marta / cycle to work (sí)
2. Marta / have a TV (no)
3. Marta / write letters to her sister (sí)
4. Marta / drive a car (no)

Ejercicio 13. Entonces y ahora: Frank ★★★

Lee y responde en inglés con frases completas.

My grandad Frank grew up in Cork. In the 1950s the family didn’t use to have a bathroom inside the house, so they used to wash in a tin bath on Saturdays. Frank used to deliver bread before school and he earned two shillings a week. He used to walk three kilometres to school.

1. Where did Frank grow up?
2. What did Frank use to do before school?
3. Did the family use to have an indoor bathroom?
4. How did Frank use to go to school?

Ejercicio 14. Reescribe con used to ★★★

Reescribe cada frase con used to o didn’t use to sin cambiar el sentido.

1. When Ximena was little, she always drew on the walls.
2. In the past we never ate out on Sundays.
3. Years ago the school had a small library.
4. He plays the guitar less now, but he played it a lot as a child.
5. Our teacher wasn’t strict at primary school.

Ejercicio 15. Cambios en España y Reino Unido ★★★

Completa con used to o didn’t use to y el verbo. Son datos reales de la vida de los abuelos.

1. Before 2002, people in Spain ___ (pay) in pesetas.
2. In the UK before 1971, there ___ (be) 240 pence in a pound.
3. Children in many schools ___ (use) computers in the 1980s.
4. Families ___ (listen) to the radio in the evening because TV sets were expensive.

Ejercicio 16. Una abuela de Dublín ★★★

Lee el texto y responde en inglés.

Nora, 78, remembers Dublin in the 1960s. “There didn’t use to be many cars on our street, so we used to play football on the road. My mother used to shop every day because we didn’t have a fridge. On Sundays we used to go to Mass and then we used to eat roast beef together. I didn’t use to travel: I took my first flight at thirty, to Madrid, and I was terrified!”

1. Why did Nora’s mother shop every day?
2. What did the children use to play on the road?
3. What happened when Nora was thirty?
4. Which verb form in the text shows a repeated habit and which shows one single event? Give one example of each.

Ejercicio 17. Mediación: la lavadora de Carmen ★★★

Tu amigo irlandés Fionn no entiende español. Explícale en inglés, en tres o cuatro frases, este mensaje de tu abuela.

«Cuando era joven no teníamos lavadora. Yo lavaba la ropa a mano en el lavadero del pueblo, con otras mujeres, y hablábamos mucho. Ahora tengo lavadora, pero echo de menos aquellas charlas.»

Ejercicio 18. Cuando tenía seis años ★★★

Escribe entre 40 y 50 palabras sobre cómo eras a los seis años. Usa al menos dos veces used to, una vez didn’t use to y una frase en pasado simple con una fecha o un momento concreto.

Ejercicio 19. Corrige el párrafo ★★★

Este texto tiene cinco errores de used to y pasado simple. Reescríbelo bien.

When I was ten, we use to live in a flat in Bilbao. I didn’t used to like it because there wasn’t a garden. My brother and I used to played in the street, and we use to buy sweets at the corner shop. Last week I visited the flat and I used to see our old neighbour!

Ejercicio 20. Dos mundos, un mismo pasado ★★★

Escribe un párrafo de 50 a 60 palabras que compare la vida de uno de tus abuelos con la de Frank, el abuelo de Cork. Menciona la casa, la escuela o el trabajo y la moneda. Usa used to y didn’t use to al menos tres veces.