Daily routine, Present simple tense
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide review and practice of the present simple tense in the context of daily routine.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy through speaking practice
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To provide clarification of verb-noun collocations.
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To provide specific information listening practice using a text about daily routine
Procedure (45-59 minutes)
T will hold the cards with pictures of actions (sleep , eat , get up, work , drive, study). SS will say the verb of each picture . T will ask SS ( How often do we do these things? monthly/weekly/daily?). T will ask SS ( what do we call things we do daily? SS will elicit the words (habits, routines).
T will highlight phrases such as,take a shower, have breakfast,go to work..etc.then T will ask ss to put them in order starting from morning till night .
T will hand in an activity and Tell students that they are going to write about their weekly and daily routines, and then they will ask each other and write about their friends' routines. They will compare the activities. If it is different they will tell it to the others.
T will ask ss to guess the daily activities they will probably listen and write it down on a piece of paper,then they will listen to the audio script.
ss will tell about the activities that are mentioned in the audio script.
Meaning: T will use a present simple tense timeline on the board to stress the fact that this tense is used to express routines. Form: elicit the form out of sentences used in the task "I,we,you,they"+ sleep. He,she,it+ sleeps. Pronunciation: focus on the pronunciation of -s endings in the third person .
T will ask ss to work in pairs and hand in matching and gap-fill exercises.