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THEME 4 HUMAN IN NATURE

FUNCTIONS
9 GRADE F1 Describing daily routines
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F2
Talking about abilities
F3 Talking about frequencies of activities
7 The Wheel Game

This activity aims to help students to use some of the basic adverbs of frequency when they talk about
daily routines and enables them to tell how often something happens.

Materials and Preparation
You will need The Wheel on page 90, a thumbtack or a paperclip, a stick or a pencil and the printed
Daily Routines worksheet. Print the wheel and put the arrow spinner in the centre hole. You may use
a drawing pin and a pencil to create a spinner on the centre of the wheel. Create four wheels for each
group. Print and cut up the phrases on page 91. Make sure that each group in the class has one set
of them.

Procedure
1 Tell students that they are going to play a game and divide students into four groups.
2 Hand out The Wheel and a set of phrases to each group.
3 Ask each group to check the phrases and discuss which of them are the things that they do regularly.
4 Explain that in turns, students will spin the wheel to indicate the adverbs of frequency they will
use. Then, ask them to use those adverbs to express how often they do something. For example, “I
always/sometimes/never load the dishes.”
5 Ask students to listen to each other carefully and pay attention to what others are saying. Remind
them that you will ask questions about the group members’ daily routines.
6 When the first student has performed the task, the next student takes a turn.
7 When all groups have completed the task, ask each member a question about the other members
of the group.
8 The team with the most correct answers wins the game.

8 How Often Do You ...?

This activity aims to help students participate in a survey and practise the expressions for daily
routines. It also helps students to improve their communicative competence, getting involved and
participating actively in the learning process.
Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 92 for each student.

Procedure
1 Hand out the worksheet to students. Point out to students that they are going to walk around the
class and ask about the activities using how often question. After they ask the question, they should
write their friend’s name and answer on the worksheet.
2 Ask them to read the worksheet before starting to conduct the survey and think of how often they
do each activity. Then, have students walk around the class and ask and answer the questions taking
notes of the answers.
3 Remind them that they shouldn’t ask the questions to the same student. They should interact with a
different friend each time so that they can hear and write various adverbs of frequency. The activity
finishes once students have filled in all the blank spaces in the table.

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