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EXAMPLES:

I always get at six oclock.




I usually have a shower before breakfast.


I sometimes go shopping.


I never cook at home.




I often eat lunch in a restaurant.

1.-60% - I ..go to bed at 12:30



2.-20% - They ... have eggs for breakfast.



3




4.-
-100% - We .watch TV




80% - We ..go to the bathroom.
.Exercises: write an adverb related with the percentage.
How often? ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY
Tell us how often something happens.
Answer the question "How often?.
Examples:
How often does she go shopping?
She sometimes goes shopping.


How often do you go to the disco?
We often go to the disco.





Position of Adverbs in Sentences
Adverbs of frequency can be placed before the main
verbs and






BEFORE THE MAIN VERB
Subject
Adv. of
Frequency
Main Verb Predicate
Tom
usually goes to work by car.
I
sometimes have a shower
with hot
water.
They
always stay up late.

AFTER OF TO BE

AFTER OF TO BE
Subject
BE
Adv. of
Frequency
Predicate
The bus
is usually on time.
Some people
are never satisfied.
Order the words to make sentences.
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.
f) grandmother / our / at home / always / is / in the evenings.
g) Mike / never / is / at home / at weekends.
Writing the Date
There are several different ways to write the date in English. They vary from
formal to informal, and there are differences between British and American
English. The following table shows some typical formats.
British: Day-Month-Year American: Month-Day-Year
the Fourteenth of March, 2011 March the Fourteenth, 2011
14th March 2011 March 14th, 2011
14 March 2011 March 14, 2011
14/3/2011 3/14/2011
14/3/11 3/14/11
14/03/11 03/14/11
Days of the Month
1st first
2nd second
3rd third
4th fourth
5th fifth
6th sixth
7th seventh
8th eighth
9th ninth
10th tenth
11th eleventh
12th twelfth
13th thirteenth
14th fourteenth
15th fifteenth
Days of the Month
16th sixteenth
17th seventeenth
18th eighteenth
19th nineteenth
20th twentieth
21st twenty-first
22nd twenty-second
23rd twenty-third
24th twenty-fourth
25th twenty-fifth
26th twenty-sixth
27th twenty-seventh
28th twenty-eighth
29th twenty-ninth
30th thirtieth
31st thirty-first
For single days and dates we use on.
For example:

I was born on the 7th of the month.

For months we use in.
For example:

I was born in September.

! My birthday is on September the 7th.
EXERCISES:

Write the dates in letters (American English).

1. 9/3/1832 ..

2. 3/12/1515.

3. 6/20/1952.

4. 10/6/1745

5. 1/2/2008
Dates
March the columns with the number.
1. 2/23/2005 December second, nineteen fourteen
2. 6/8/1066 January fifth, nineteen sixty-eight
3. 8/22/1940 June eighth, ten sixty-six
4. 12/2/1914 July third, eighteen seventeeen
5. 3/21/2000 October twelfth, eighteen seventy
6. 4/30/1990 April thirtieth, nineteen ninety
7. 1/5/1968 .. July fourth, nineteen forty-five
8. 7/4/1945 .. March twenty-first, two thousand
9.10/12/1870 February twenty-third, two thousand and five
10. 7/3/1817 August twenty-second, nineteen forty

Prepositions of time


Examples:
I work on sundays.
He listens to music at night.
We play football in the morning.
They travel to London in may
My birthday is on january 13th.
Its very hot in the summer.
Exercises.- Complete with a preposition
The beach party is .. 4
th
August.
2. First snowdrops appear April.
3. The train leaves.. 5:35.
4. We are usually tired the evening.
5. We started this project September.
6. The date when we must hand in the report is. 1
st
of
October.
7. They will go abroad.. February.
8. I read this book 1999.
9. I am usually sleepy Monday morning.
10. We always have a cake.. proclamation day.

Exercise complete with AT, IN or ON
1. George visits us every Christmas.
2. They had a nice party. June the 12
th.

3. We met only .. last year.
4. I do not have Music .. Wednesday.
5. He arrived .December 12
th.

6. Lilac blossoms May.
7. This palace was built 17
th
century.
8. I will go away . 25
th
of July.
9. He bought this car .. March.
10. They do not work Friday.
11. Some people rest the afternoon.
12. They saw a crime . noon.
13. We celebrate different fests October.
14. I always get flowers .my birthday.
15. This program is on only Saturday.
16. Children must rest well. weekend.
17. There were many wars ..Middle Iron Age.
8. We decorate a fir tree .. Christmas.
9. This school was built.. 2002.
20. The weather is usually cold winter.

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