1.Listen to Lubna and her grandma. Then circle the correct options.
Lubna: Oh, no! Not again!
Grandma: What’s wrong, Lubna? Are you OK?
Lubna: Yes, Grandma. But the Wi-Fi isn’t working, so I can’t chat with my friends!
Grandma: Oh! When I was young, people couldn’t write messages like that because we didn’t have smartphones.
Lubna: Really? How did you communicate with your friends? Did you have to see them every day to speak to them?
Grandma: No, we didn’t, because we had phones in our houses. But we always had to speak on those phones, of course. We couldn’t write messages on them.
Lubna: And how did you have group conversations?
Grandma: Well, we had to meet at someone’s house.
Lubna: And did you have email when you were young?
Grandma: No, we didn’t, but we could write letters. Then we had to take them to the post office.
Lubna: Wow! That’s hard to believe!
1 Lubna couldn’t / didn’t have to chat with her friends yesterday.
2 When Grandma was young, she didn’t have to / couldn’t send messages on a smartphone.
3 Grandma couldn't / had to use the phone at home to speak to her friends.
4 Grandma and her friends couldn’t / didn’t have to meet every day to chat.
5 Grandma had to / couldn’t meet her friends at their houses to have conversations.
6 Grandma and her friends had to / couldn’t write letters and take them to the post office.
2 Look at the pictures from the past and complete the sentences. Use could/couldn’t or had to/didn’t have to.
He had to walk to school because there wasn’t a school bus.
She played and ran outside so she didn’t have to join a sports team
She didn’t have a TV, but she could listen to the radio.
He couldn’t talk on a smartphone with his friends so they talked at school.
3 Read and complete the sentences for you. Use could/couldn’t or had to/didn’t have to and the verbs in brackets.
1 When I was three years old, I didn’t have to make (make) my bed.
2 I could/couldn’t draw (draw) very well when I was four years old.
3 When I was five, I had/didn’t have to make (make) my lunch.
4 I had/didn’t have to do (do) a lot of homework when I was six.
5 I had/didn’t have to study (study) English when I was seven.
