🏃 How Often Do You Exercise? — Frequency, Fitness & Paragraphs
More about health! Today you will ask "How often…?" and answer with once a week, twice a month, three times a day or every day, talk about fitness ("How do you stay in shape?" — "I'm in good shape!") and write a real paragraph with a topic sentence.
An Interview For The School Newspaper
Read the little scene below.
🤔 How often do you exercise?
📅 How Often…? — Frequency Expressions
Use How often to ask about the frequency of something. Answer with a number of times + a + a time word (day, week, month, year).
❓ Question → answer
- "How often do you exercise?" — "I exercise every day."
- "How often does he go swimming?" — "Twice a week."
- The expression usually goes at the end of the sentence.
🧩 Remember Lesson 19?
- Adverbs of frequency go before the verb: I always / usually / sometimes / never eat breakfast.
- Frequency expressions go at the end: I eat breakfast every day.
- Both answer the question How often…?
Say once (1) and twice (2) — then three times, four times… with an -s: "two times" is possible, but "twice" sounds much better! And it's a week, not "the" week: "twice a week" ✅.
🗓️ My Frequency Calendar
Choose an activity, then click the days when you do it. Your sentence changes by itself!
📈 The Frequency Ladder
Count the ticks and choose the right expression for Nora's habits. 8 steps to the top!
💪 Talking About Fitness
Use how questions to ask about fitness. Then use the word shape with an adjective to talk about physical fitness.
🎤 Fitness questions
- How do you stay in shape?
- How do you stay healthy?
- How often do you exercise?
- How do you do it?
📊 in … shape
- She's in excellent shape. 🏅
- I'm in good shape. · I'm in pretty good shape. 👍
- He's in bad shape. 😕
- He's in terrible shape. 🛋️
🎤 The Fitness Interview
You are the reporter! Listen to each interview, then decide: what shape is this person in? 6 interviews.
📝 Writing A Paragraph
A paragraph is a group of sentences about one topic. When you start writing about a new idea, start a new paragraph.
Usually the first sentence. It is general: it tells the reader what the paragraph is about.
They give details, examples and facts about the topic. Every sentence must be about the same topic!
📖 Two Paragraphs About One Family
My name is Yasmine, and I'm in pretty good shape. I love exercising. I go swimming twice a week at the sports club, and I do yoga with my mom every morning. I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, and I drink water every day. On the weekend, I go cycling with my cousins.
My brother Rayan is in bad shape, but he wants to change. He never exercises, and he watches TV three or four hours a day. He eats chips and cookies five times a week. Now he has a plan: he goes walking with our dad twice a week, and he eats an apple every afternoon. Good luck, Rayan!
🖍️ The highlighted sentences are the topic sentences. All the other sentences are supporting sentences.
🔎 The Paragraph Detective
Two missions: find the topic sentence, or find the sentence that doesn't belong in the paragraph. 6 cases!
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record: How I Stay Healthy
Write one paragraph about how you stay healthy. Start with a topic sentence, then add 4 or 5 supporting sentences with frequency expressions (once a week, twice a month, every day…).
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Read your paragraph out loud like a radio reporter. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — Frequency, Fitness & Paragraphs
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!