Unit4 – DAIL LIFE
Sequence 3 –Hi! How are you doing?
Function: Asking for and giving information about everyday activities
PREPARE 1: How often I do which things.
This activity is designed to help students work with verb phrases and some collocations of everyday
activities so that they can understand the text in EXPERIENCE.
You can draw a table with the frequency adverbs and ask each student to write a verb in the correct
column.
Encourage your students to form the complete sentence and read it out loud.
PREPARE 2: The adverb of frequency machine.
This activity introduces some common adverbs of frequency and helps students see how they relate
to one another in terms of the frequency they express.
Students need to know these words in order to do the EXPERIENCE, THINK and CREATE sections.
EXPERIENCE: Hi! How are you doing?
Global understanding
For the first activity it will not be necessary for your students to understand the whole passage. It is
enough if they understand the general idea and only those bits of information that are helpful in
answering the question. At any rate, play the passage no more than twice.
If you decide to play the passage twice, then add some challenge to the first playback by hiding the
subtitles, and elicit from the students words or expressions they understood. Then play the passage
back again with the subtitles on, and let the students confirm what they think they understood.
(For the second activity [deciding whether a series of statements are Vicky or Mat, see below] the
students will need to listen again and understand the passage in more detail).
Also encourage students to look at the animation for clues to meaning and attitude.
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Unit4 – DAIL LIFE
Sequence 3 –Hi! How are you doing?
Function: Asking for and giving information about everyday activities
THINK: How frequently?
There are three parts to this section:
- In part 1 students identify all the frequency adverbs in the text and write the number of times each
one occurs.
Ask your students to use their notebooks.
They should classify the situations presented in the dialogue according to the frequency in which they
happen.
Put the sentences in the correct order.
In part 2 students categorize all the sentences from the conversation that contain frequency adverbs
depending on the word order of the adverb and the verb (main verb or verb to be).
Find the rule.
In part 3 students have to complete the grammar rule of the word order of frequency adverbs by
turning two dials to put parts of the sentence in the correct order.
Encourage your students to brainstorm other ways to express the frequency of things, for example:
every Saturday, once a week, once a month...
Other frequency adverbs are:
commonly – 80%
generally – 80%
habitually – 80%
regularly – 80%
constantly – 70%
continuously – 70%
infrequently – 10%
hardly ever – 5%
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Unit4 – DAIL LIFE
Sequence 3 –Hi! How are you doing?
Function: Asking for and giving information about everyday activities
CREATE: And what do you usually do?
There are two parts to this Learning Object:
- In part 1 students match answers to questions
- In part 2 students write their own answers to the same questions.
When students finished writing their answers to the questions, they can print it and check them with
the help of the teacher. Another possibility is to print the blank forms and have the students first write
the answers individually, and then read them out to their classmates.
It is of vital importance that you encourage your students to speak. Have them produce brief stories.
If a microphone and/or sound recorder are available, help the students to first record their
interventions and then listen to the recordings and check their pronunciation.
A suggested integrating activity is for students to keep a diary or weekly activity log in which they
emphasize their daily routines (frequency and habits).
PLAY 1: Windows.
In this activity students have to listen for school activities, free time activities and the time of the day.
PLAY 2: X.Trivia
In this game, the students have to answer some questions.
The students land on the squares and answer the question they hear. If they answer correctly they
can stay on the square they land on. If not, they return to the square they came from.
This can be played individually or by 2-4 players and can be played more than once as the questions
and positions on the board change.
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