Lesson Plans: Numbers and Times

Imperative and number words practice, including reading basic number words and understanding typical classroom instructions and classroom vocabulary.

Students make sentences to be drawn on a picture of the classroom, including silly sentences like "Nine orange CD players if they like", with option cards to practise "an" with.

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.

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

Students practise the different ways that they might hear numbers pronounced with a memory card game based on Othello, including different ways of saying large and small numbers.

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 competitive personalised speaking board game, moving around by getting high numbers in replies from your partners.

Very simple general knowledge questions with have that students react quickly to in fun ways like slapping cards, also good for developing number word recognition.

Pronouncing numbers and legal vocabulary practice through a fun pairwork guessing game, including warmer cooler hints using comparative adjectives, then more controlled practice of how to say numbers in different ways.

Different pronunciations and meanings of numbers review starting with a fun fast reactions game, including how to use small numbers, large numbers, and time expressions.

How to understand and pronounce numbers and social science vocabulary review, starting with a fun pairwork guessing game with warmer/ cooler hints.

Students test each other with interesting general knowledge questions that can be answered with first, second, twenty third, etc, followed by a presentatiob of how to pronounce and write ordinal numbers.

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

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.

Making general statements together on times that people usually do things, inclduding useful vocabulary for talking about routines.

Common ways of mispronouncing numbers review, including L1 interference and sounds which are difficult to say and put together.

How to say numbers and use active and passive voice speaking through a warmer cooler numbers guessing game, including different pronunciations of numbers and love and relationships vocabulary.