
1)Before people could print books and newspapers, information used to pass from person to person. Ordinary people used to get their news from places like churches or mosques, and people used to trust words that came directly from another person. Most people didn’t use to travel because roads weren’t safe for travellers, so market traders used to take stories with them as they went from town to town. Places that didn’t have markets used to get information from singers or theatre groups and, in fact, important information used to be remembered through songs or short poems.
2)
I used to write for my university magazine.
My father used to listen to the radio.
We didn’t use to watch TV in the morning.
Did you use to read a newspaper every day?
Mobile phones used to be very expensive.
Did your family use to go on holiday to France?
3)
Did you use to do your homework as soon as you got home when you were at school?
The fire at our college was in the local news.
My grandmother only listens to the local news.













