1. The document is an English reading comprehension activity about a boy named Bryan Shapiro. It provides information about his school schedule, the classes he takes, and the sports he plays. 2. Bryan takes classes in English, social studies, math, science, geography, music, PE, and learns Spanish and Chinese. He has Chinese class three times a week. 3. He plays basketball for his school team and practices four times a week, sometimes having jazz band lessons, though he is not very musical.

1. HOW OFTEN DO YOU HAVE
ENGLISH CLASSES?
Designed by Andrea Quintero
Level: A1 (teenagers)
Time: 2 hours
Resources: computer
Target Skill: Reading
Created on March 04th

2. GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. Children will be able to go through this SAM in order to
identify frequency adverbs and use simple present tense
structures.
2. Children will also learn to use SAMs by examples to improve
their Reading skills and acquisition of vacabulary

3. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of this activity you will be able to…
 Acquire vocabulary related to frequency adverbs by identifying them
in context.
 Ask your partners about activities they enjoy doing more, and
frequency of those activities.
 Answer questions in simple present tense including frequency
adverbs.
 Use SAMs to improve your language learning process.

4. VOCABULARY CHECKING
 Write a frequency adverb for the next activities according to your own experience:
 __________ ______________
 __
_______ ___________ ______________

5. Before reading the paragraph look at the different visual aids and
answer: what are the pictures related to? What is your favorite one?
Why?

6. WA T C H T H E V I D E O F R O M M I N U T E 6 : 1 3 T O T H E E N D
AND IDENTIFY ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY AND
QUESTIONS ASKED IN SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE.

7. NOW ENJOY READING…
Hi my name is Bryan Shapiro and I live in
San Francisco, I´m 13 years old and I´m in
8th grade, that´s the last grade of middle
school. I start high school next year.
Everybody takes English, Social Studies,
math, science, geography, music and P.E. we
all take Spanish and some people do another
language. I´m learning Chinese, because there
are a lot of Chinese- speakers in San
Francisco. We have Chinese three times a
week and it´s really difficult! But I like
Spanish and my dad says it´s useful because
American companies do a lot of business with
Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.

8. We usually have P.E. and we play team sports
like baseball, basketball, volleyball, or hockey. My
favorite is basketball, and I´m in the school team,
we play other schools once a month, but we have to
train 4 times a week, we sometimes have jazz
band lessons. I like jazz but I am not a very good
musician! I never play any instrument in public
since I am a shy boy.
School starts at 8 o´clock and finishes at three in
the afternoon. I often have about one hour and a
half of homework. I start as soon as I get back
so that I can watch television after dinner.

9. NOW LET´S CHECK WHAT
YOU LEARNT…
Complete the next word map taking into account Brian´s routine
HE ALWAYS… HE OFTEN…

10. HE
HE NEVER…
SOMETIMES…

11. NOW ANSWER…
 How often does Brian play basketball?  What languages does he learn at school?
____________________________________ __________________________________
 What time does he start school?  How often do you play sports?
____________________________________ _________________________________
 Where does he live?  How often do you have English classes?
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 What do you usually do in your free
 How often does he have english classes?
time?
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12. TIME TO CREATE….
 LOOK AT THIS IMAGE AND
WRITE WHAT THE PICTURE
SUGGESTS USING ADVERBS OF
FREQUENCY AND SIMPLE
PRESENT TENSE, MAKE YOUR
IMAGINATION FLIES…