Used to ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Adaptation Avenue

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Used to Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work

In this handy used to speaking activity, students practice forming, asking and answering used to and get used to conversation questions... read more

Blast from the Past

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Used to Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Impromptu Speech - Group Work

In this imaginative used to game, students talk about how things were different in the past using used to and didn't use to. In groups, students take turns... read more

Did you use to...?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Used to Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Survey, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice

In this engaging used to speaking activity, students conduct a survey to find out what their classmates' lives were like as children by asking and answering... read more

Growing Up

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Used to Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Answering Questions, Discussions, Communicative Practice - Group Work

In this free used to board game, students practice used to and the past simple by discussing and answering... read more

Memories

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Used to Game - Grammar and Speaking: Guessing, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this insightful used to game, students guess a partner's answers to I used to... sentences about their childhood by asking Did you use to...? questions. First... read more

My Childhood

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Used to Game - Grammar and Speaking: Writing Sentences, True or False, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Group and Pair Work

In this amusing used to game, students give true and false information about their childhood. First, in two... read more

People used to...

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Used to Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Sentence Completion, Forming Sentences, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group and Pair Work

In this fun used to game, students guess inventions by listening to a partner talk about what people used to do and... read more

Then and Now

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Used to Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing Sentences, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this free used to vs. present simple activity, students ask and answer questions about the way things used to be when... read more

Used To Practice

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Used To Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Unscrambling, Rewriting Sentences, Gap-fill, Writing Questions - Speaking Activity: Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this productive used to worksheet, students practice forms of used to in affirmative and negative statements and Wh... read more

Life Changes

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Used to Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Discussions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

This interesting used to speaking activity is ideal for practicing or reviewing the various forms of used to, e.g. get used to, getting used to, etc. In the activity... read more

Looking back

Upper-intermediate (B2) 35 minutes
ESL Used to Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Discussions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this memorable used to speaking activity, students practice expressions with used to and would by talking about past habits and memories. Students begin... read more

Recent Changes

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Used to Game - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Reading Sentences, Guessing - Group and Pair Work

In this entertaining used to game, students practice used to, didn't use to and getting used to by guessing situations from recent changes. The worksheet... read more

Usually, Used to, Get used to

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Used to Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

Here is a fun used to board game to help students ask and answer questions about things they usually do, used to do, or could/couldn’t get used to... read more

What's changed?

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Used to and Would Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Guessing - Group Work

In this free used to and would game, students describe and guess changes that have happened using used to, didn't use to, getting used to, would and wouldn't... read more