Frequency Adverbs Activity
- Take out the pile1 prompt cards and ask the students: Do you ever...?
- Then point to the adverb you want included in the answer.
- Do this as long as necessary to be able to include all the adverbs.
- Write the question form on the board and point out the use of ever.
- Also write the answers on the board and show that the adverb always comes just before the main verb except with the verb to be when it comes after.
- When you have done this for the positive answer, repeat for negative answers, showing that the adverb comes after do not but before the main verb.
- Then put the students into groups of four or five students.
- Have a set of the prompt cards for each group.
- There should be two piles: one with the activity and one with the adverbs.
- One student takes a card from the top of the activity pile and asks another student a question using ever.
- For example: Do you ever play the trumpet in bed ?
- The student asked then takes a card from the adverb pile and answers using that adverb.
- For example: Yes I always play trumpet in bed.
- Explain any necessary vocabulary such as kilt (a skirt with the family design worn on formal occasions by men in Scotland).