Days and times
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy in a conversation about reading the correct time.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide students speak fluently on telling times.
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
To start with the differences between 'watch' and 'clock' and asking some simple questions on telling the time. Starting with asking the students questions about the real time and elicit the answers to see how much they know in this concept. Then echoing some time readings to make sure that they have understood where/when to use 'to' and 'from'.
Instruct them about what to do in student book p.30 ex.1 and deliver the page. Turn on the CD and get the students write down on the blank clocks, from what they heard and understood about the time around the world. Then, let them to work in pairs and try to ask and answer by themselves.
To get a Clock from the classroom wall and move the hands around, and elicit the time. Drill the times. The students will call the time every time the teacher moves hand around. Meanwhile the teacher will write some times on the board and elicit the answers from the students. Tell the students do the Students book p.30 ex 3 in pairs and elicit the answers.
The teacher will dispatch the Workbook p.152 let them to go through briefly and make sure that they understand 'at', 'on' and 'in' time prepositions. Let the students, in pairs, do the Workbook p.19 ex 9 and 10.
To do the ex 5 in pairs, write the sentences on separate piece of papers and stick them on the wall at different places in the classroom. Let the groups go around and ask and answer the questions written on them.