Adverbs of manner: how did she drive? Adverbs of manner exercises: quickly, carefully, well
About this lesson
This A2 drill lesson gives adverbs of manner exercises on how people do things: -ly spelling, well, fast and hard, adjective or adverb, and the adverb's place after the object.
- Grammar
- Adjective + -ly, y → ily, le → ly, good → well, fast, hard, late and early without -ly, adjectives after look, smell or taste, and hardly = almost not.
- Topic
- A teenager's driving test: the examiner's report, Zara's post after she passes, her teacher's message, notes on a driver who fails, and your own driving teacher's texts.
- Activities
- Adjective-or-adverb sorting, spelling choices, gap-fills, anagrams, memory games, drag-and-drop, tables, word order, matching, quizzes and a chat.
What's inside
Chapter 1The rule
Chapter 2Adjective + -ly
- Sort the adjectives: how do we make the adverb?Sort into columnsUnlock
- Choose the right spellingChoose the optionTry it
- Write the adverb with -lyFill in the gapsUnlock
- Unscramble the adverbsAnagramUnlock
- Find the matching pairs: adjective and adverbMemory gameUnlock
- Drag the adverbs into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
Chapter 3Well, fast, hard, late
- Choose good or wellChoose the optionUnlock
- Choose the right form: fast, hard, late, earlyChoose the optionUnlock
- Fill in the table: adjective → adverb, adverb → adjectiveFill in the tableTry it
- Choose the right meaning: hard or hardly?QuizUnlock
- Put the words in the right orderUnjumbleUnlock
- Find the mistake and choose the right wordsQuizUnlock
- Match the beginnings and the endingsMatchUnlock
Chapter 4Adjective or adverb?
- Choose the right word: adjective or adverb?Choose the optionUnlock
- Choose the right word after be, look, feel, smell, taste and soundChoose the optionUnlock
- Read about the cooking class and fill in the gapsFill in the gapsTry it
- Choose the sentence with the right word orderQuizUnlock
- Read the review and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Find the mistake: adjective or adverb?QuizUnlock
- Sort the sentences: correct or wrong?Sort into columnsUnlock
Chapter 5Real life: The driving test
- Read the examiner's reportReal-life documentUnlock
- Read the report again: true or false?True or falseUnlock
- Read Zara's post and fill in the gapsFill in the gapsUnlock
- Read Kevin's message to Zara and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Read the notes about another driver and choose the right wordsChoose the optionUnlock
- Choose the right replies: Kevin texts youChatTry it
- Test yourself: choose the right answerQuizUnlock
Chapter 6Homework
- Choose the adjective or the adverb: at workChoose the optionUnlock
- Write the adverb with -ly: at the zooFill in the gapsUnlock
- Unscramble the adverbs: how did they do it?AnagramUnlock
- Match the questions and the answersMatchUnlock
- Put the words in the right order: well, fast, hard, earlyUnjumbleUnlock
- Fill in the table: adjectives and adverbsFill in the tableUnlock
- Choose the right word: how does it look, smell, taste or feel?Choose the optionUnlock
- Read the review and fill in the gapsFill in the gapsUnlock
- Read Coach Rita's email and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Find the mistake and choose the correctionQuizUnlock
- Sort the adverbs: how do we make them?Sort into columnsUnlock
- Fill in the gaps: how do they do it?Fill in the gapsUnlock
- Is the sentence correct? Mark true or false: at schoolTrue or falseUnlock
- Choose the correct sentenceQuizUnlock
- Find the matching pairs: oppositesMemory gameUnlock
Grammar: adverbs of manner: how do we do it?
An adverb of manner answers How? about a verb: Mia drives slowly. Most are an adjective + -ly, a few are irregular, and an adjective still describes the noun: a careful driver but drive carefully.
Adverbs of manner: how do we do things?
An adverb of manner says how we do something: quickly, carefully, well, fast.
Verb (+ object) + adverb
The adverb usually comes after the verb, or after the object when there is one: Ben speaks French well. They did the test quickly. It doesn't go between the verb and its object: Ana speaks well Spanish is wrong.
Verb + adverb: how?
subjectverb (+ object)adverb: how?
Mia drives slowly.
Ben speaks French well.
They did the test quickly.
Where does the adverb go?
The adverb usually goes after the verb: Ana sings beautifully. When the verb has an object, the adverb goes after the object: Ana speaks Spanish well. He closed the door quietly. Don't put it between the verb and the object. (Not: Ana speaks well Spanish.)
Adjective or adverb?
An adjective describes a noun (an easy test); an adverb tells how someone does something (I passed the test easily). Ask what the word describes: Zara is careful, but Zara drives carefully.
Adjective: describes a noun
- a careful driver · a good cook
- Zara is careful.
- It's an easy test.
Adverb: describes a verb (how?)
- drive carefully · cook well
- Zara drives carefully.
- I passed the test easily.
Spelling: -ly, -ily, and -le to -ly
Most adjectives just add -ly and keep their letters (carefully with two l's, nicely with the e). Consonant + y becomes -ily (angrily), and -le becomes -ly (gently, terribly).
| The adjective | The adverb | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| most adjectives | + ly | quick → quickly, careful → carefully (ll), nice → nicely (keep the e) |
| consonant + y | y → ily | easy → easily, happy → happily, angry → angrily |
| ends in -le | le → ly | gentle → gently, terrible → terribly, simple → simply |
Irregular: well, fast, hard, late, early
Good becomes well: She's a good singer. She sings well. Fast, hard, late and early don't change: a fast car, He drives fast; an early train, I got up early. There is no fastly.
| Adjective | Adverb | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| good | well | She's a good singer. She sings well. (Not: goodly) |
| fast | fast | a fast car · He drives fast. (Not: fastly) |
| hard | hard | a hard worker · She works hard. |
| late | late | a late lunch · We got home late. |
| early | early | an early train · I got up early. |
Look, smell, taste; hardly; common mistakes
After be, look, feel, smell, taste and sound, use an adjective: This soup smells good, not smells well. Hardly is not the adverb of hard; it means almost not: I hardly slept. Other slips: He plays good, She drives careful.
Be careful!
After be, look, feel, smell, taste, sound, use an adjective: Dad looks tired. This soup smells good. (Not: smells well.) hardly is not the adverb of hard. It means almost not: I hardly slept. = I slept very little.
Examples
- Zara drove carefully on the highway.How did she drive? Carefully.
- My dad is a good cook. He cooks well.good + noun · verb + well
- He speaks very good English. = He speaks English very well.two ways to say it
- Grandma laughed happily.happy → happily
- We worked hard and finished early.hard, early: no -ly
- This pizza tastes great!taste + adjective
Common mistakes
She drives careful.
She drives carefully.
after a verb: an adverb
He plays good.
He plays well.
the adverb of good is well
They run fastly.
They run fast.
fast, hard, late, early: no -ly
She speaks well English.
She speaks English well.
verb + object + adverb
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What's in the lesson
- 39 auto-checked exercises
- 6 games
- 1 real-life document
- 1 grammar scheme
- 1 picture
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- make adverbs with the right spelling: We found the hotel easily. She closed the baby's door gently, not easyly or gentlely
- use well, fast, hard and late: Ana cooks really well. Our plane arrived two hours late, not fastly or lately
- choose an adjective after look, smell or taste and an adverb after an action verb: You look tired. My dad always drives carefully.
- put the adverb after the object: He opened the door slowly, not He opened slowly the door
- Grammar:
- adverbs of manner · adjective + -ly · good / well · adjective or adverb
- Topic:
- grammar practice · driving test · how we do things · everyday life
Teaching tips
- Play In the Manner of the Word: a student draws a card with an adverb (slowly, angrily, happily) and does a simple action that way while the class guesses: She's walking angrily!
- Describe a good driver first: before the real-life chapter, ask how a good driver drives, collect adverbs on the board (carefully, calmly), then compare them with the examiner's report.
- Check with a How? question: when students hesitate between careful and carefully, ask whether the word answers How does she drive? or What kind of driver is she?
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English Grammar Practice · A2 has 28 drill lessons, one grammar point each: the past simple and continuous, used to, comparatives, going to and will, the present perfect, modals, the zero and first conditionals and questions. Each has the rule as a scheme, 43 to 47 exercises that check themselves, 15 of them for homework, and no new words.See the course
- 1Past simple with -ed: moving day!
- 2Past simple irregular verbs: we went, we saw, we bought
- 3Past simple negatives and questions: where did the cake go?
- 4Past continuous: what were you doing at 9 p.m.?
- 5Past simple or past continuous: what were you doing when it happened?
- 6Used to: how things were back then
- 7Comparatives: which one is better?
- 8Superlatives: the best in town
- 9As … as, too, enough: is it the right size?
- 10Adverbs of manner: how did she drive?
- 11Much, many, a few, a little: how much do we need?
- 12Possessive pronouns: whose is it?
- 13Be going to: what's your plan?
- 14Will: what will the future bring?
- 15Present continuous for plans: what are you doing tonight?
- 16Will vs going to: decided before or right now?
- 17Present perfect: have you ever tried it?
- 18Just, already, yet: have you done it yet?
- 19For and since: how long have you known her?
- 20Present perfect or past simple: up to now or finished time?
- 21Must and have to: what are the rules?
- 22Should: what should I do?
- 23Can, could, may: could you help me, please?
- 24Verb + to or -ing: what do you enjoy doing?
- 25Zero conditional: what happens if…?
- 26First conditional: what will you do if it rains?
- 27Articles: a, the or no article?
- 28Subject and object questions: who won the quiz?