How Often Do We Pay with Cash?

A ready-to-teach A2 grammar lesson on adverbs of frequency, built around a real-world question: how often do we still pay with cash?

Students chat about how they pay for a coffee, guess a true/false money quiz, then read a short text with real figures on cash, card and phone payments and find eight frequency words. They learn the frequency scale, money phrases and where adverbs go (before the main verb, after be), with a Watch out! box on typical A2 errors. They race in teams to put the adverb in the right place, role-play a café survey and mingle with Find someone who. The speaking tasks never ask students about amounts of money.

What's inside

• 12 colourful slides to project, with answer keys straight after each activity
• 4-page A4 exercise sheet: teacher's notes, answer key and a 2-page student worksheet
• Warm-up, money quiz, model text with a notice-it task, frequency scale and rules
• Team race, café survey role-play, Find someone who mingle and an exit ticket
• Easier and Harder options, an online tip, an exit ticket and free homework links

Level: A2 · Time: 60–75 minutes · Prep: none. Print the worksheet, project and teach.

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