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Telling the time

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Profession
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This lesson is a crucial component of our ESL course for adult beginners and aims to teach students how to accurately express time in English. By mastering this essential skill, students will be better equipped to participate in daily conversations and real-life situations where time plays a critical role.

The lesson begins with some optional warm-up activities that review previously covered topics. We provide suggested boardwork that highlights a couple of ways of expressing time in English. After that, the students participate in some collaborative classroom activities. These activities are designed to help them practice and contextualise the target language. To encourage learning outside of class, we suggest a homework task. Lastly, we wrap up the lesson with a fun game that reinforces the current theme's vocabulary.

Lesson Outline
Warm-up
1Giving personal info
2Spelling bee
Activities
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Boardwork
1Clocked
2Time Bandits
3Rock around the clock
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Homework
Games
1Hot Seat: Profession
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Warmers

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Giving personal information

Ask each student a few simple questions based on everything they have learned in the course so far.

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Spelling bee

A quick warmer activity where the teacher challenges each student to spell a word from any stage of the course.

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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students learn how to express the time in English.

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Clocked

Students have to write the correct times underneath clocks drawn on the board.

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Time Bandits

A pair work speaking activity where students challenge their partner to tell the time.

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Rock around the clock

The students express their thoughts about different times of the day.

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Suggested homework

The students have to write about themselves using everything they have learned in the course thus far.

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Hot Seat: Profession

Players have to guess which profession their teammates are describing.

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