Daily Routines

© 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. Lesson Plan Level 1 Topic Aim Language Focus Skills Lesson 12 Daily routines To enable students to ask about, understand and talk about jobs and daily routines Job vocabulary; present tense Reading, speaking and listening Out There – real world Out There -VoIP Find a place close to the school where lots of people are sitting down relaxing, like a small park or a square. Tell Ss to use the VoIP software to call some conversation partners. # Details Task Sheet Mins. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 To introduce the aim and the task of the day tell your students that you are a teacher and describe your basic daily routine. Write some examples on the board. Then ask the students what they do and their daily routine. Tell the Ss to match the jobs to the picture. Ask the Ss to check their answers in pairs. Then check the answers in the class and check understanding of the different jobs. Ask the Ss about their jobs. Tell the Ss to match the jobs and their descriptions. Ask the Ss to check in pairs. Then check in the class and check understanding of the vocabulary. Go through the present simple forms. Tell the Ss to put the correct word from the box in the spaces. Ask the Ss to check in pairs. Then check in the class. Tell the Ss to read about Julie’s daily routine and fill in the times she does things in the grid. Ask the Ss to compare their answers in pairs. Check the answers in the class and check understanding of any vocabulary. Tell the Ss to put the sentences in the correct order. Ask the Ss to check in pairs. Then check in the class. Explain the Out There task. Drill the questions in class. 1 2 3 10 10 10 15 15 15 5 Out There Tasks 8 9 Real world: Ss ask members of the public the questions about their job and daily routines. Feedback: Check task completion. Ask students to compare their answers. Students compare their answers to their own countries and discuss differences. Ask Ss if they feel confident with the language taught and get positive feedback Ask a few random questions about Ss routines. VoIP: Ss call conversation partners. Feedback: Check task completion. Ask students to compare their answers. Students compare their answers to their own countries and discuss differences. Ask a few random questions about Ss routines. Tell Ss to do more for homework and to record them. 45 40 © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD1.12 p1 Task Sheet 1 Exercise 1 Match the jobs to the pictures 1. a teacher 2. a businessman 3. a police officer 4. a fireman 5. a builder 6. a nurse 7. a shop assistant 8. a waitress 9. a flight attendant 10. a lawyer a. f. b. g. c. h. d. i. e. j. © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD1.12 p2 Task Sheet 2 Exercise 1 What do you? Match the jobs and their description. 1. I’m a businessman. a. I don’t work – I relax! 2. I’m a housewife. b. I teach mathematics in a secondary school. 3. I’m a bank clerk. c. I don’t work – I want to find a job. 4. I’m unemployed. d. I cook, I clean, I wash – I do everything in the house! 5. I’m a teacher. e. I drive taxis. 6. I’m 65 – I’m retired. f. I work in a hotel. 7. I’m a receptionist. g. I work in a big international company. 8. I’m a taxi driver. h. I work in a bank. Look. I work. I don’t work. Do you work? Yes, I do. /No, I don’t. Exercise 2 Put the correct word in the space. do do teach work don’t do drive don’t do do a) I _______ in a bank. b) _____ you work in a company? No, I ______. I’m a housewife. c) ______ you work in a hotel? d) I’m unemployed. I ______ work. Yes, I _______ I’m a receptionist. e) I _______ taxis. f) I _______ mathematics. g) ______ you work? h) What do you _______? No, I’m retired. I’m a businessman. © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD1.12 p3 Task Sheet 3 Exercise 1 Read about Julia and write in the times. ‘Hello. I’m Julia Griffin. I’m a production manager and I work for a plastics company. My day is very busy and it starts early. I get up at six o’clock and take a shower. Then I go downstairs and have breakfast – that’s at about 6.30. I leave home at about 7.15. I drive to work and arrive at about 8.30 – it depends on the traffic. I work until 11 o’clock and then I have a break for a cup of coffee. I stop for lunch at one o’clock, for about an hour. I usually finish work at about 5.30, and arrive home at about seven o’clock – again, it depends on the traffic. In the evening we have dinner at about 7.30 and after that I just relax and watch TV – I’m too tired for anything else. I go to bed at 10. 30 or 11 o’clock’. What time? have a coffee break have lunch arrive home get up go to bed have breakfast have dinner arrive at work leave home finish work Exercise 2 Put the sentences in the correct order. 1. do time what you up get ? __________________________________________ 2. time you what do dinner have ? __________________________________________ 3. drive you do work to ? __________________________________________ 4. go you what to do time bed ? __________________________________________ 5. watch you TV evenings do in the ? __________________________________________ 6. finish what do you time work ? __________________________________________ 7. what in evenings the you do do ? __________________________________________ © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD1.12 p4 Out There Task ‘Excuse me I am learning English, can I ask you a few questions please?’ Ask four people about their jobs. What do you do? Where do you work? What time do you . . . . . . get up? . . . have breakfast? . . . leave home? . . . arrive at work? . . . have a coffee break? . . . have lunch? . . . finish work? . . . arrive home? . . . have dinner? . . . go to bed?