Adverbs of Manner – Speaking Lesson Plan 52

Target Language:
Adverbs of Manner

Context:
Personal Skills

Teacher’s Instructions & Answers:
Included on the last pages

This is a 5 page speaking based lesson, with one page of homework, and teacher’s instructions with answers.

The target language is Adverbs of Manner.
It is a speaking based lesson plan.

It focuses on:

• Changing common adjectives into common adverbs of manner
  (quiet-quietly / easy-easily / good-well / fast-fast)
• Introducing the common form of “ly” for adverbs as well as the other irregular forms they take.
• The spelling rule for adding endings to words that end with “y”
  ( y change to i + ly )
• Reviewing sentences with should and shouldn’t.

It includes:

• One page grammar breakdown (Presentation).
• Two Activities to practice speaking the target language (Semi-restricted speaking practice).
• Two Activities to produce the target language (Freer speaking practice).
• One page to be assigned for homework (Fill-ins and a paragraph).
• Two pages of teacher’s instructions on how to execute the lesson in class and answers.

Tips:

• Make sure students understand that adverbs of manner are describing the verb in the sentence.
  (I finished the homework easily / Easily is describing finish – NOT homework.)
• Students often have a hard time remembering the irregular adverbs like “fast” and “hard” and that “good” as an adverb is “well”.

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