Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan helps A1 students learn to tell the time through a short, engaging video and fun clock exercises. The class material covers essential vocabulary like clock, big hand, and little hand, and introduces key phrases such as o'clock, quarter past, and half past. Students will practice asking and answering questions about time, making it a highly engaging and useful ESL activity for beginner classes.
Activities
- Students start by matching key vocabulary words like clock, time, big hand, and little hand with their correct definitions to build a foundational understanding before diving into the main topic.
- The lesson incorporates a video, which students watch in two parts. First, they answer true or false questions, and later they complete a fill-in-the-gaps exercise to check their listening comprehension.
- Clear grammar explanations introduce how to use o'clock, past, and to. Students then apply this knowledge in written exercises, matching digital times to written forms and writing the time shown on clock faces.
- A sentence-scramble activity helps students practice forming common questions and answers, such as "What time is it?" and "It's ten past six", reinforcing correct sentence structure.
- The lesson finishes with a dynamic speaking activity. Working in pairs, students use various clock images to practice asking for and telling the time, making the learning experience interactive and practical.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on essential vocabulary for telling the time. Students will learn and practice words such as clock, time, big hand, and little hand. It also introduces key phrases including o'clock, quarter past, half past, quarter to, past, and to, building a solid foundation for discussing time.
Grammar focus
The grammar focus is on constructing questions and answers about time. Students will learn the structure of "What time is it?" and "It's...". The lesson explains the rules for using o'clock, past for minutes 1-30, and to for minutes 31-59, ensuring clear and correct usage when telling the time.
