My Partner’s Daily Habits – A Fun Speaking Activity for Practicing the Present Simple and Adverbs of Frequency – Free Printable PDFs
My Partner’s Daily Habits
My Partner’s Daily Habits
Looking for an engaging way to practice adverbs of frequency and the present simple tense? This interactive “My Partner’s Daily Habits” activity gets students talking, questioning, and sharing details about their daily lives!
📝 How to Play
👥 Pair Up
- Split the class into pairs (A and B).
- Hand out one worksheet per student (A gets one version, B gets the other).
🎯 Warm-Up
1️⃣ Write these adverbs of frequency on the board: always, often, sometimes, never.
2️⃣ Say three sentences about your own routine (e.g., I drink coffee in the morning).
3️⃣ Have students guess how often you do each activity by choosing an adverb.
4️⃣ Reveal your actual habits and show where the adverb is placed in the sentence.
🎙 The Main Activity
1️⃣ Students take turns asking their partner questions from their worksheet.
2️⃣ The answering student responds using adverbs of frequency (e.g., I often go for a run in the evening).
3️⃣ The questioning student writes down the response and asks follow-up questions for extra details (noting answers in the final column).
4️⃣ Once all questions are answered, students switch roles.
📢 Class Discussion & Extension
- After finishing, students share one interesting fact they learned about their partner.
- For an extra challenge, students can write a short paragraph about their partner’s daily habits and present it to the class.
✨ Why Use This Activity?
✅ Encourages real conversations in English
✅ Reinforces adverbs of frequency & present simple usage
✅ Promotes listening and note-taking skills
✅ Fun and interactive way to learn about classmatesetitive, and interactive!mpetitive, and engaging!ve and fun for all ages
Make learning present simple and adverbs of frequency engaging and meaningful with this pair-based speaking activity! 🎯
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