Exercise 1: Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

      1.   A. gate                         B. sensitive                  C. date                         D. fate

      2.   A. rain                         B. they                         C. bread                      D. lake

      3.   A. anyone                    B. many                       C. head                        D. safe

      4.   A. translation              B. dead                        C. tender                     D. measure

      5.   A. obey                        B. leather                    C. train                        D. paint

      6.   A. breakfast                 B. nation                      C. afraid                      D. preparation

      7.   A. stretch                     B. jealous                    C. neighbor                 D. November

      8.   A. eight                        B. invasion                   C. play                         D. member

      9.   A. liberation                B. eleven                     C. heavy                      D. steady

      10. A. wait                         B. grey                         C. pleasure                  D. weight

Exercise 5: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

      1.   There used to be fewer people and .................. on the roads.

            A. roofs                        B. helmets                   C. helicopters              D. vehicles

      2.   Do you know the .................. in the UK is to keep to the left?

            A. traffic light              B. traffic rule              C. traffic jam               D. speed limit

      3.   It is dangerous to ride a motorbike without a ..................    

            A. helmet                    B. triangle                   C. tricycle                    D. circle

      4.   In Hanoi, during rush hour, some road users ride their motorbikes on the ..................

            A. driving licence        B. lane                         C. pavement                D. seat belt

      5.   Traffic is terrible during the .................. when everyone is in a hurry to get to work or come back home.

            A. traffic light              B. road sign                 C. traffic rule              D. rush hour

      6.   The ................ for motorcycles is 40 km/h in towns and 60 km/h outside urban areas.

            A. speed limit              B. driving licence        C. traffic rule              D. traffic light

      7.   You must .................. the traffic rules in order to avoid accidents.

            A. park                         B. obey                        C. reverse                    D. warn

      8.   It takes us more than three hours to drive across those .................. roads.

            A. wide                        B. safely                      C. right-handed           D. bumpy

      9.   You need a driving licence to ..................

            A. drive a car              B. ride a bike               C. get on the bus         D. get off the train

      10. The large supermarkets in Vietnam often let you .................. free.

            A. park                         B. obey                        C. warn                        D. find

      11. Some vehicles beep when they .................. to warn those behind.

            A. ride                         B. reverse                    C. drive                        D. sail

      12. After school, children queue up and wait for the bus .................. on the pavement in front of the school.

            A. safe                         B. bumpy                     C. safety                      D. safely

Exercise 6: Changed into negative and interrogative form.

      1.   They used to play tennis twice a week.

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      2.   I used to go to the gym three times a week.

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      3.   Tennis used to be a sport for rich people only.

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      4.   My father used to take me to see soccer games on Saturday.

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      5.   He used to buy a new tennis racket.

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Exercise 7: Rewrite the sentences with "used to".

      1.   They often went to Da Lat in the summer.

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      2.   We usually played soccer in the past.

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      3.   I got up earlier when I had work.

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      4.   Tom did his homework in the evening.

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      5.   Lan wrote to Mary twice a month.

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      6.   He worked at night when he worked in the supermarket.

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      7.   Did they watch TV in the past?

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      8.   She played badminton in her free time.

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      9.   They went swimming in the afternoon in 1990.

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      10.    He was a doctor in that hospital.

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Exercise 8: Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets: used to + V or simple past. (1)

      1.   I (see) .................. Marcus at the library working hard. He told me to say hello to you.

      2.   She (be) ....................... a lot happier, but then she lost her job.

      3.   There (be) ....................... three restaurants in this town, but two closed down leaving only one.

      4.   If you look over there, you can see the field where they (fight) ....................... the Battle of Harris Hill in 1509.

      5.   Did you (take) ....................... a lot of photos when you were in Moscow last year?

      6.   How many hours a day did you (go) ....................... to school when you were ten?

      7.   Children never (talk) ....................... so aggressively to their parents. It’s terrible!

      8.   Soldiers (build) ....................... this bridge near the end of the Second World War.

      9.   Your mother (have) ............................... a Yorkshire Terrier when she was a young girl, didn’t she?

      10. When I was five, I (be) ....................... able to do incredible gymnastics. Now I can’t even touch my toes.