General English Level 3 GELEV3 Unit 01 Topic 02.doc DISCUSSION Schooldays Discuss the following questions with your partner. • Was your school strict? • Did you have to wear a school uniform? What was it like? • Did you get a lot of homework?  LANGUAGE FOCUS 02 Be allowed to / let / have to / make In this activity you will learn to talk about things you were and were not allowed to do. 1. be allowed to / let Wendy writes: We weren't allowed to speak English in class. Miriam writes: One teacher let us call her by her first name, Jane. These words are used when someone gives us permission to do something. LOOK wasn't I was allowed to She us My parents let me wear jeans for school. Examples Listen to the examples. 1. I wasn't allowed to go to discos on a school night. 2. My parents let me borrow their car at the weekends. 3. We were allowed to leave the exam room after we finished the exam. 4. Our teacher never let us call her by her first name. We had to call her Mrs Brown. 2. have to / make Miriam writes: I had to go to bed before 10pm on a school night. Wendy writes: … my parents made me study during the vacation. … I had to wear an ugly uniform. We use have to and make when there are rules about what we can do and can't do. 12 QUESTLANGUAGE