Adverbs of Manner Games

Adverbs of manner games

TPR and personalised speaking

 

Verbs and adverbs of manner mimes

Mime a verb and adverb of manner combination like “swim quickly” or “sing loudly” until your partner guesses what you are miming. You can make sound effects, but you can’t speak.

Do the same but also miming all the different adverbs of degree too, e.g. “chew a little noisily”, “chew quite noisily”, “chew very noisily” and “chew extremely noisily”. Your partner should guess and say the whole set.   

 

Adverbs of manner make me say yes

Take turns asking each other yes/ no questions with adverbs, and score one point for each “Yes” answer that you get. You can’t use the same question as anyone has used before, but a similar question (e.g. with just one or two words changed) is okay.

 

Adverbs of degree and manner competition

Ask someone “How …(ly) do you…?” or “How …(ly) can you…?” They will answer and ask the same question back to you. You get one point if your answer is higher on the ranking of adverbs of degree below than their answer is, e.g. if they say “very well” but you say “extremely well”.

 

Adverbs of degree and manner ladder game

Choose one adverb of manner such as “far” and ask different questions to get the answers “not very…”/ “a little…”, “quite…”/ “fairly…”, “very…” and “extremely…” in that order. If you get a different answer to the next one in that sequence, you fall to the bottom of the ladder and have to try again. However, you can use the same questions again in later attempts (if you can remember them). Keep trying until you can get through the whole sequence up to “extremely…” in order, using the same adverb of manner in each question.

 

Adverbs of manner error correction

Without looking at the next page, find and correct the mistakes below.

quickly/ fastly – slowly

loudly/ noisyly – quietly

goodly – badly

hardly – softly

farly

carefuly

messyly

Check that you found one mistake on each line, then check with the next page.

 

verbs	adverbs of degree	adverbs of manner
blow a bubble catch chew chewing gum/ chew… climb a tree/ climb… cook dance drink eat noodles/ eat… fish have a bath/ have a shower have breakfast/ have… hike hit a baseball jump kick a ball/ kick… paint play computer games play tennis/ play… read English/ read… ride a bicycle/ ride… roller skate/ rollerblade run shout sing ski speak speak English surf swim throw a ball/ a discus/ a… walk walk to school wash the car/ wash… whisper whistle	sooo/ very very   so	quickly/ fast – slowly loudly/ noisily – quietly well – badly hard – softly far carefully messily
	very
	quite/ fairly
	a little/ not very
	not at all