Giles Parker English Academy Podcasts

Frequency adverbs Hi, welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. My name’s Giles Parker and today we’re going to be looking at frequency adverbs. The title of the listening and reading text is ‘My friends make me fat’. The grammar is aimed at beginners but the language is natural so it can be used by any level. Don’t forget, you can download the transcript and access great online games and activities at the website too. First, I’m going to talk about frequency adverbs, then we’ll listen to them or read them, if you like, in context in the comprehension text. When you want to say how often something happens, or how many times a day or a week or a month, etc, something happens, you can use frequency adverbs. Maybe you remember how adverbs kind of give extra information about the verb – they describe how the verb happens. Well, frequency adverbs describe how often the verb happens. So; · 100% of the time use always · 60-75% of the time use often, usually, frequently or regularly · 5