Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson for A2 ESL students helps them learn how to tell the time and talk about daily schedules. The material uses a variety of interactive exercises, including listening and reading comprehension, to build essential vocabulary and grammar for discussing routines.
This lesson is designed to give A2 students the practical language skills they need to describe their daily lives. Through activities like a listening gap-fill about a daily schedule and a reading comprehension exercise about a student's busy week, learners will practice key vocabulary. The lesson also includes clear explanations and practice with prepositions of time (at, in, on) and different ways to express time (e.g., "half past seven," "quarter to eleven").
Activities
- A warm-up discussion about personal schedules to activate students' prior knowledge.
- Listening comprehension practice where students fill in the gaps in a text while listening to an audio about a daily routine.
- Vocabulary exercises to learn and practice common phrases related to daily activities like "wake up" and "have lunch."
- A grammar focus section with a clear explanation and an interactive quiz on using prepositions of time (at, in, on) correctly.
- A reading comprehension activity based on a blog post about a university student's schedule, followed by questions.
- A final speaking and writing task that encourages students to use the lesson's language to describe their own weekday and weekend schedules.
Vocabulary focus
The lesson introduces essential vocabulary for talking about daily routines. Key phrases include "wake up," "have breakfast/lunch," "leave for work/school," "finish work/school," and "go to bed." Students will also learn related words like "schedule," "lecture," and "hiking" through context.
Grammar focus
This lesson focuses on two key grammar areas. First, it covers the correct use of prepositions of time: "at" for specific times, "in" for parts of the day, months, and years, and "on" for days and dates. Second, it provides practice in telling the time using common phrases like "o'clock," "half past," "quarter past," and "quarter to."
