How often?

When someone asks you how often you do something, they’re asking you how many times a day or week (or month etc.) you do it.

Firstly, ‘often’ can be said in two different ways. You can say the T or it can be silent. I don’t say the T because I find that saying it with the T takes more work 😂

Let’s have a look at this question and practise a few different ways that we can answer it.

How often do you play tennis?

Let’s say that you play tennis on the days that are ticked on this calendar.

You can say “I play tennis once a week”. But you can also give more information and say, “I play tennis every Wednesday”.

Or maybe your calendar looks like this.

Here, you would say, “I play tennis twice a week”. So every week, you play tennis two times.

But what if your calendar looks like this?

Then you play tennis once every two weeks, and you can also say once a fortnight.

Or maybe your calendar looks more like this.

So you’re playing tennis maybe two or three times a week.

And what if you’re really serious about tennis and your calendar looks like this? 😱

Then you’re pretty much playing tennis every day.

Questions

Answer these questions for more practice:

1. How often do you study English?
2. How often do you exercise?
3. How often do you go shopping?
4. How often do you go out for dinner?
5. How often do you go to the movies?