TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES How often do you...?

Activity Type Introduction

Reading and speaking Here is a fun board game to help students practice asking 'How
activity, group work often do you...?' questions and giving answers with adverbs and
expressions of frequency.

Language Focus Procedure

Adverbs and expressions
Divide the students into groups of three or four.
of frequency

'How often do you...?' Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and counters.
questions and answers
Players place their counters on the start square.

Aim Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter
along the board.
To ask 'How often do
you...?' questions and When a player lands on a square, the student to their right asks
give answers with them the 'How often do you…?' question on the square.
adverbs and expressions
of frequency. The player then answers the question by making a true sentence
with an adverb or expression of frequency.

Preparation If a player can’t think of anything to say or makes a grammar

mistake, they must go back to their previous square.
Make one copy of the
game board for each The first player to reach the finish wins the game.
group of three or four.
Enlarge the game board As an alternative, you can have the students miss a turn instead
to A3 if possible. You of going back to their previous square.
will also need to prepare
some dice and counters.

Level
Elementary

Time
25 minutes

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 ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

ESL / EFL RESOURCES How often do you...?

…use the …study …go …go to the

Finish USUALLY Internet? English? shopping? dentist?

…brush your o cc a …watch

…go cycling? siona
teeth? lly films?

…check your …go to …do Go back

e-mail? bed late? housework? 1 space
ONCE
A
WEEK
…play Super skip!
…go on
computer Move
holiday?
games? ahead
once
a
mont
Miss a …speak h
…eat fruit?
turn English?

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aw
…listen to i ce …go out some
tw
the radio? with friends? time …exercise?
s
n
Ofte
…get up …chat …buy
early? online? clothes?

…travel by
R Oh no! …listen to …eat fast
airplane? NEVE Go back music? food?

Go forward …read a EV ER
2 spaces
…play sport?
newspaper? RDLY
Start
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