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ESL Lesson Plan: What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

Lesson Overview

This A1 ESL lesson explores the topic “What time is it?”, helping students talk about telling the time and daily routine activities, and learning using very basic, natural English.

Learners learn functional language about telling the time, parts of the days, and scheduled events. They also learn simple vocabulary to use to talk about their daily…

This A1 ESL lesson explores the topic “What time is it?”, helping students talk about telling the time and daily routine activities, and learning using very basic, natural English.

Learners learn functional language about telling the time, parts of the days, and scheduled events. They also learn simple vocabulary to use to talk about their daily routine, and the different times they do different activities.

Through various fun and engaging ESL exercises, students build confidence talking when telling the time and sharing their opinions in short, simple sentences.

This lesson is ideal for A1 learners who are developing basic speaking skills on familiar topics such as telling the time, parts of the day, and daily routine.

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up: This or That.
  2. Time: Vocabulary. 
  3. Time: Sentences.
  4. Time: Multiple Choice.
  5. Time: Daily Routine.
  6. Time: Parts of the Day..
  7. Dialogues: My Typical Day.
  8. Audio: Daniel’s Daily Routine. 
  9. Time: True or False?

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A1 ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to topic-based questions. Activity layout:

  1. Questions: Writing task.

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