Week 29 – Lifestyle & habits

Week 29 – Lifestyle & habits (adverbs of manner & degree, too/enough, A2)

Theme: Describing how people live, their habits, and how they do things.

Main grammar & functions:

• Adverbs of manner: slowly, quickly, carefully, quietly, loudly, well, badly.
• Adverbs of degree: very, really, quite, pretty, a bit, too.
• too / enough with adjectives:
  • too + adjective (negative meaning: more than is good): too fast, too noisy.
  • adjective + enough (sufficient): good enough, big enough.

CEFR link:

A2: Can describe lifestyle and everyday habits; can use simple adverbs to modify verbs and adjectives (CEFR: “Can describe habits and routines”, “Can qualify an opinion or description using basic adverbs of degree.”)

1. Lesson objectives (for students)

By the end of the week, students can:

1. Use adverbs of manner after verbs to describe how someone does something:
   • “She drives carefully.” / “He speaks slowly.”
2. Use adverbs of degree (very, really, quite, a bit, too) with adjectives:
   • “It’s very cold.” / “He’s quite healthy.”
3. Use too / enough for simple evaluation:
   • “This coffee is too hot.” / “The bag isn’t big enough.”
4. Talk about their lifestyle and habits using this language.

2. Grammar focus (with Ukrainian‑speaker notes)

a) Adverbs of manner (how?)

Form:

• Usually adjective + -ly:
  • slow → slowly
  • quick → quickly
  • careful → carefully
  • quiet → quietly

Common exceptions:

• good → well (not goodly)
• fast → fast (same form)
• hard → hard (not hardly – very different meaning)

Position:

• After the verb or verb + object:
  • She drives carefully.
  • He speaks English well.
  • They play football badly.

Ukrainian issues:

• Using adjective instead of adverb:
  • She drives careful → She drives carefully.
• Word order influenced by Ukrainian:
  • Usually OK, but watch for She carefully drives the car (acceptable, but prefer drives carefully at this level).

Simple student rule:

Use adverb (‑ly) after the verb to say "how".

b) Adverbs of degree (how much?)

Core set for A2:

• very, really (strong)
• quite, pretty (medium)
• a bit, a little (weak)
• too (more than good)

Position:

• Before adjectives:
  • It’s very cold.
  • She’s really tired.
  • He’s quite healthy.
  • It’s a bit boring.
  • It’s too noisy.

Ukrainian issues:

• Overusing "very" for everything – introduce variety: really, quite, a bit.
• Placing adverbs after adjectives:
  • It’s cold very → It’s very cold.

c) too / enough with adjectives

too + adjective (negative – more than is good):

• This coffee is too hot.
• It’s too late to call her.
• The music is too loud.

adjective + enough (sufficient):

• The coffee is hot enough.
• The room is big enough for us.
• She is old enough to drive.

Negative with enough:

• The bag isn’t big enough.
• I’m not rich enough to buy that.

Ukrainian issues:

• Word order:
  • too much cold vs too cold – keep it simple: too + adjective.
  • enough big instead of big enough – emphasise adjective + enough.

At A2, keep "too + adj" and "adj + enough" as set patterns.

3. Vocabulary sets

Lifestyle & habit verbs:

• sleep, eat, drink, exercise, work, relax, study, smoke, walk, drive

Adjectives/adverbs for habits:

• healthy, unhealthy, active, lazy, busy, stressed, relaxed
• slowly, quickly, carefully, quietly, loudly, well, badly

Sentences about lifestyle:

• I usually eat quite healthy food.
• I work too much.
• I don’t sleep enough.
• I drive carefully.
• He speaks English very well.

4. Lesson skeleton (60–90 minutes)

1) Warm‑up – Lifestyle questionnaire (10–15 min)

• On the board, write 4–5 quick questions:
  • How many hours do you sleep?
  • How often do you exercise?
  • Do you eat healthy food?
  • How many hours do you work/study?
• Students discuss in pairs; you listen and pick out some ideas to reformulate later with adverbs and too/enough.

2) Presentation – Adverbs of manner (15–20 min)

1. Show 3–4 simple contrasts with pictures or miming:
   • walk slow / walk fast → walk slowly / walk fast
   • speak quiet / speak loud → speak quietly / speak loudly
   • drive careful / drive dangerous → drive carefully / drive badly
2. Present sentences on the board:
   • She drives carefully.
   • He speaks English well.
   • They work hard.
3. Elicit form: adjective + -ly, and irregular well, fast, hard.
4. Controlled practice:
   • Gap‑fill: choose adjective or adverb:
     • "He is a careful / carefully driver." (careful)
     • "He drives careful / carefully." (carefully)

Explain difference only briefly – focus on correct adverb after verb.

3) Presentation – Degree adverbs (very, quite, a bit, too) (15–20 min)

1. On the board, write a scale:

too – really/very – quite – a bit

2. Give example sentences:
   • It’s very cold today.
   • It’s quite warm.
   • It’s a bit cold.
   • It’s too cold to go outside.
3. Ask students to rank them from "strong" to "weak" meaning.
4. Controlled practice:
   • Students rewrite simple sentences adding an adverb:
     • "It’s cold." → "It’s very cold." / "It’s a bit cold."
     • "He is tired." → "He is really tired." / "He is quite tired."

4) Presentation – too / enough (15–20 min)

1. Use simple, visual examples:
   • Show a cup very full: "The cup is too full."
   • Show a small bag with big items: "The bag isn’t big enough."
   • Show a big room with few people: "The room is big enough for us."
2. Board patterns:
   • too + adjective
   • adjective + enough
   • not + adjective + enough
3. Controlled practice:
   • Complete sentences:
     • "The shoes are _ (too small / not big enough)."
     • "The coffee is _ (too hot / hot enough)."

5) Freer practice – My lifestyle (15–20 min)

Students talk about their lifestyle using the new language.

1. Give prompts:
   • sleep, work/study, exercise, food, free time.
2. Students write 5–8 sentences about themselves:
   • "I sleep about 6 hours. It isn’t enough. I’m often very tired."
   • "I eat quite healthy food."
   • "I drive carefully."
   • "I work too much."
   • "I don’t relax enough."
3. In pairs, they compare and comment:
   • "You sleep more than me. I think I work too much."
   • "You eat very healthy food. I eat a bit too much fast food."

5. Homework / revision ideas

Choose 1–2:

1. Lifestyle paragraph
   • Students write a short text (8–10 sentences) about their lifestyle and habits, using:
     • at least 3 adverbs of manner (slowly, carefully, well, etc.)
     • at least 4 adverbs of degree / too / enough.

2. Adjective → adverb table
   • Students make a mini‑table at home:
     • slow – slowly
     • quiet – quietly
     • careful – carefully
     • good – well
     • fast – fast
     • hard – hard

3. Healthy vs unhealthy habits
   • Students make two lists: "healthy" and "unhealthy" habits, and write 3–4 sentences with too/enough:
     • "I eat too much sugar."
     • "I don’t sleep enough."
     • "I exercise enough."