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BRAINSTORMING List as many adverbs of frequency as possible

BRAINSTORMING

1. ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

- Before verbs: Trước V
- After tobe ( am/is/are): Sau tobe

* PRACTICE

1 Complete the sentences with the adverbs of frequency from the box.
always

often

sometimes

rarely

never

1. My mother________ shops at the supermarket. She never shops
anywhere else.
2. I ________ buy things online, just once or twice a year. I prefer to shop at
the shopping mall.
3. You can _______ bargain at a supermarket because the prices are fixed.
4. How ______ do you return things you buy online?
5. I don't often buy things at the dollar store. My mother only takes me
there __________.
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always shops at the supermarket. She
1. My mother________
never shops anywhere else.

HOME

5. I don't often buy things at the dollar store. My mother
sometimes
only takes me there __________.

HOME

never bargain at a supermarket because the
3. You can _______
prices are fixed

HOME

often do you return things you buy online?
4. How ______

HOME

rarely buy things online, just once or twice a year. I
2. I ________
prefer to shop at the shopping mall.

HOME

* PRACTICE

1 Complete the sentences with the adverbs of frequency from the box.
always

often

sometimes

rarely

never

1. My mother________ shops at the supermarket. She never shops
anywhere else.
2. I ________ buy things online, just once or twice a year. I prefer to shop at
the shopping mall.
3. You can _______ bargain at a supermarket because the prices are fixed.
4. How ______ do you return things you buy online?
5. I don't often buy things at the dollar store. My mother only takes me
there __________.

2

Read the schedule for the grade 8 field trip tomorrow, and underline the verbs
in the sentences. Then answer the questions.

Field trip to the Double Dragon Chocolate Factory.
30 February
9:00

The bus leaves.

10:00

Students arrive at the factory

10:10

Students watch a documentary introducing the factory.

10:30

The tour of the factory starts.

12:10

Students return to school to write the trip reports.

1. What tense are the verbs in the sentences?

Present simple

2. Are the sentences about habits or future events?

Future events

2. SIMPLE PRESENT FOR FUTURE EVENTS

Future events
Timetables: Thời gian biểu
Schedules: Lịch trình

3

Write A next to a sentence if it relates to a timetable, schedule or plan,
and B if it is an unplanned future action.

1. We'll go to Costco to return this suitcase.
2. Look! We have a whole afternoon for shopping on the second

B
A

day of our tour.
3. The summer sales end next Sunday.
4. Listen to the announcement. The train doesn't leave till 12:00.
5. I'm too busy today, so we'll go shopping on Tuesday.

A
A
B

4 Choose the correct answer to complete each sentence.
1. The supermarket in my neighbourhood opens / will open longer
hours than the one in yours.
2. Don't worry. I make / will make a shopping list, and you just give it
to the shop owner.
3. We don't buy / won't buy a birthday cake this year. We can bake one
at home.
4. The bus schedule says that there is / will be a bus to Aeon at 10:05.
5. Look at the advertisement. Does / Will the big sale start next Friday?

5

Work in pairs. Ask and answer to check planned events for the community fair
next month.
Example:

A: When do we start preparing for
the fair?

B: We start on the first of March.
A:When
do
volunteers
start
cleaning
A:
What
we
do
on
the
first
A: When do we start calling forof
up?
April?
volunteers?
B:
They
start
cleaning
up
on
the
2nd
B:At
8:30,
we
start
opening.
At
B: We start calling for on the 3rd of
of April.
11:00,
we hold food competition.
March.

CONSOLIDATION

* Homework
- Learn the use of adverbs of frequency by heart.
- Make 5 sentences of the simple present for future meaning
- Do exercise in the Workbook