New Vocabulary
Verbs:
study, cook, exercise, wake up early, go to bed late, clean your room (or vacuum), go out for dinner, snow (v.), rain (v.)
Adverbs of Frequency:
always, often, sometimes, rarely, never
Target Structure
Examples:
How often does it rain in the summer? It rarely rains in the summer. How often do you go out for dinner? I often go out for dinner.
How often do you wake up early? I never wake up early.
Teaching the Class (before the handouts)
Use the flashcards to elicit and check your students’ understanding of the vocabulary. Elicit each verb, and then practice with Listen and Repeat. Then place the “cook” image on the board and ask students how often they cook to elicit adverbs of frequency. Practice making statements with various students.
Examples: I never cook. I often cook. I always cook. etc.
As you make these statements, hold up the pie chart images to depict the level of frequency. Now practice saying each adverb with the class while you hold up the adverb flashcards. Listen and repeat.
Finally, hand out some of the verb flashcards to various students, and have them call out a question to someone
else in the class (with that verb).
Examples: How often do you cook? How often do you exercise? etc.
Pair Work
Put the students in pairs and have them ask each other about Sara and Amy’s schedules. Tell them to write the appropriate adverb in each box.
Follow-Up: Now Work Alone
After the students have finished their pair work, there is a follow-up activity for the students to do on their own. Students will answer questions based on the information they received in the pair work exercise. (Make sure they are not doing the follow-up activity and pair work activity at the same time. These are meant to be done separately.)
Listening
For this task, simply make statements to the class using the verbs in the listening task. Students should listen to your statements and write the appropriate adverb under each verb image.
Group Work
Have your students walk around the class asking questions to complete the survey. As a follow-up, ask students to stand up and make statements about their findings.
