GRAMMAR COMMENT: ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

· Adverbs of frequency can go: before the main verb	He always goes to work by bus. They never go on holiday in winter.
· Adverbs of frequency come before the main part of the verb, but after auxiliary verbs.	We don’t usuallydrive.
· Adverbs of frequency come after the verb be.	I’m alwaystired. ohn is often absent from lessons. They were usually on time.
· Adverbs of frequency come after modal verbs, should, can, could, etc	You should always turn the electricity off. My boss can never remember my name.
· Sometimes and occasionally can go in the front, middle or end position in the sentence.	Sometimes she is late. She is sometimes late. She is late sometimes.

Exercise 1 Order the sentences:

a. Mary / punctual / always / is / to school.
b. often / I / revise / don't / my homework.
c. We / visit / hardly ever / at weekends / museums.
d. My parents / never / travel / in summer / abroad.
e. celebrate / my birthday / I / usually / with my friends

Exercise 2 Complete the expressions with these verbs: do make spend take tidy use.

1. tidy your bedroom, your desk
2. ________ the bed, a noise
3. ________ the washing up, housework
4. ________ a computer, the Internet
5. ________ out the rubbish, the dog for a walk
6. ________ time, a lot of money

Exercise 5 Read the text aloud and retell it.

Leisure time

Everybody sometimes has a free time. Somebody prefers only to sleep in their leisure time, but most of us prefer to do a great number of interesting things. It may be reading, various types of sport games, watching TV, listening to music and so on. If we have a few day or a week we prefer to go to the attractive places. Many people think that students have too much leisure time, but in my opinion, they are wrong. We are very busy.

Many students have six or seven lessons a day. Even during weekend we learn our lessons. And we just have no time to go somewhere. As for me, a large part of my free time is devoted to reading. I like to read books about another countries, another times and another worlds. Also I read books about history of our country. Besides reading I like to do physical exercises. Me and my friends often play basketball, football or other active games. But my favorite hobby is travelling. Usually I travel in summer and often it is a trip to the south, to the warm sea. I think all people must have other occupations besides their basic work, because it extends the boundaries of the familiar world and teaches us something new about people and things.

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