Frequency adverbs
(adverbios de frecuencia)
Para (afirmatives) and (interrogatives):
Always (siempre)...100%.
Usually (usualmente)...90%.
Often (a menudo)...80%.
Frequently (frecuentemente)...70/60%.
Sometimes (algunas veces, a veces)...50%.
Ever...? (ever...?) (nunca, jamás, alguna vez...?).
How
often...? (que tan seguido o con que frecuencia...?).
Seldom (casi nunca)... 30%.
Rarely (rara vez)... 20%.
Never (nunca)... 0%.
1. practice
Place the frequency words in their right position in
these sentences:
Ex: mr. Jones goes to his job. (always)
R = mr. Jones always goes to his job.
1) We get up late on sunday. (usually)
2) Do you drink milk?. (ever)
3) I am here on saturdays. (usually)
4) Does he study his lesson?. (always)
5) I do not see my friend on weekdays. (ever)
6) I take a vacation. (seldom)
7) Do you speak english to your friends?. (ever)
8) I speak spanish while studying and practice english. (never).
9) I am early for class. (seldom)
10) She goes to Veracruz city. (sometimes)
11) I am in your heart. (always)
2. Complete the following sentences with "some, any, much, many, a little, a few, a lot of, lots of, plenty of, as necessary:
1) Here there is ________ money if you need it.
2) Do you have ________ house over here?.
3) Is there _________ good hotel in this town?.
4) I donot have _________ money right now!.
5) Does she want ________ sugar?.
6) I want to tell you _________ things before you go.
7) Do you want I put ________ of sugar in your coffee?, Or just a little?.
8) He doesn´t have ________ time for doing that!.
9) She calls me _________ times to go to the cinema to see _________ movies.
10) _________ teachers have _________ of patience with the students.
11) He is not going to die as long as he takes __________ medicines.
12) I think I am going to be very tired because I have _________ of work.