Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Time

Practising a range of tenses for and by IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations

Lying card game to practise sometimes, usually, never, etc.

Normal and strange small talk questions for adverbs of frequency.

Discussing times in a roleplay meeting speaking practice, with how to pronounce time expressions and prepositions in time expressions presentations

Students make and ask each other future questions about past C2 Proficiency speaking topics using real exam question stems.

Practising comparing language personalised speaking

Personalised speaking practice of count and non-count nouns on the topic of students' recent lives, including quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentation.

Students practise different ways of saying dates and common confusions between dates, firstly with a fast reactions The Same or Different game, then classifying the dates, and finally testing each other.

Students are tested on their understanding of days of the week, months, and other dates, first of all with quick reaction games, including lively TPR variations for young learners.

Memory game to memorise days of the week along with other useful vocabulary.

Students practice the names of days by surveying the class about different actions on different days, making posters, then vote on the best projects in the class.

Students get points for positive answers from personal Present Simple questions with days of the week like "Does your family cook on Sundays?", with more challenging variations for later and better classes.

Students make a draw sensible or silly Present Simple sentences with typical actions and days of the week like "Santa plays soccer on Mondays"

Making yes no questions with want more fun with use of a coin and getting points for getting particular answers with well designed questions, also good for times, feelings and weather vocabulary.

Questions about different topics and times in Cambridge B2 First Speaking game

More often and less often time expressions presentation and practice card games, including asking questions to get particular adverbs of frequency and similar expressions with numbers.

The most common future verb forms in IELTS Speaking, Writing Task One and Writing Task Two review, starting with matching the examples to different parts of the test and then trying to remember them.

Personalised speaking practice of a wide range of future verb forms and future time expressions, with students then recalling and analysing the forms they used.

Students ask for and give advice on the future to practise a wide range of future time expressions, including prepositions of time presentation and practice, and useful language of advice.

Guessing what date someone is thinking of from hints, including useful vocabulary related to weather, clothes, activities, months and days, ending with language presentations.

A fun guessing what date the other person is thinking of game, with hints about how wrong they are until they get exactly the right date, including special dates like Valentine's Day, so also good for cultural training.

Fun time expressions practice through trying to guess what time someone is imagining the future of, including suggested future time expressions and a presentation stage.

Practising past time expressions speaking game

Student A and Student B worksheets with different how often questions for pairwork guessing games, for practice and presentation of both simple and more complex frequency expressions.

Months of the year and colour vocabulary silly and sensible combinations activities.

Practising vocabulary with a months memory game, including actions vocabulary and ordinal numbers.

Students give hints about what month they are thinking of until their partner can spell that month letter by letter in a hangman spelling game, including personalised speaking and suggested descriptions of what happens in particular months.

Learning how to read, write and spell the names of months with dominoes games .

Drilling the names of months with a vocabulary flashcard memory game, including places, sports, weather, food,

Students play a fun card game based on Othello to learn similar past time expressions and future time expressions like "two days ago" and "in two days" and past and future tenses.

Different meanings of past tenses, including unreal past

Typical time expressions with narrative tenses personalised speaking game in which students find experiences that they share, including matching times to Past Continuous, Past Perfect, etc.

Eliciting the differences between the language of arrangements, plans and predictions by thinking about which is more polite to talk about in negative responses to invitations, also with a little work on other polite/ formal language.

Prepositions in time expressions pairwork guessing game.

Listening for if sentences are about the present or future, including Present Continuous for future arrangements.

Present Continuous for actions in progressive and for future arrangements review, starting with a fun quick reactions game. and including contrasts with other present and future tenses.

Present time expressions questions, things in common and opinions speaking card games, with a prepositions of time grammar presentation.

Arranging months and dates card games, with optional more challenging and fun variations, followed by writing dates practice.

Ordering mixed up days of the week flashcards activities.

Ordering mixed up months flashcards games.

Actions you do every day vocabulary mixing activities.

Fun language of trends practice for the festive season, with trends to explain and discuss, and an optional extension into talking about other festivals and celebrations - good for Business and IELTS classes.

Vocabulary related to spring, summer, autumn and winter review, including a fast reactions game, vocabulary such as weather words and months of the year.

Narrative tenses practice through the first time I... and the last time I... mini-presentations and suggested questions in a range of past tenses.

Future forms in IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three questions and answers review.

Different future forms in IELTS Writing Tasks One and Two presentation, with predictions, speculations, and recommendations.

Four adverbs of frequency and times with at, in and on speaking card games and grammar presentation, including asking questions to get particular answers and finding shared personal information.

Similar and different prepositions of time and other past, present and future time expressions.

Pairwork general knowledge quiz with interesting questions on times when particular things happen, including extra hints like "A little earlier" and optional controlled practice of twelve and twenty four hour clock times.