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Prepositions of time

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45-60 min
Low-resource ESL lesson plan
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Overview

This ESL lesson plan is designed to teach beginners how to use prepositions of time. By using on and at, students will be able to construct more detailed sentences and communicate about their schedules, events, and daily activities with greater clarity.

To start, we provide suggested boardwork to introduce the language concepts. Then, the students will engage in several low-resource activities where they will make statements about their daily activities and interview classmates to practice using prepositions of time effectively. Finally, the lesson will end with a classroom game that is designed to reinforce the newly learned language in a fun and interactive way.

Lesson Outline
Activities
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Boardwork
1What and when?
2Teacher interview
3Classmate interview
4Tell me
Games
1Noughts and Crosses
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

Students review the correct usage of the two most common prepositions of time.

Use the diagrams to explain the functional uses of the time prepositions 'on and 'at'. Next, move on to the question construction below. Elicit a few example questions and add them to the board along with a sample answer. If you can, use L1 to confirm their understanding of each statement.

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What and when?

The students will write sentences about their week.

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Teacher interview

The students have to answer questions about their week using the target language for the lesson.

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Classmate interview

For this speaking activity, the students will pair up and interview each other about their week.

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Tell me about your partner

The students have to switch tracks and answer questions about their partner's week.

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Classroom games

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Noughts and Crosses

Students have to answer questions using the target grammar to win squares on a grid. 

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