Days and Dates- True or False Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
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.
Lesson Plan Content:
Days and dates true or false game
Without looking below, listen to the thing that your teacher says and show if you think that it is true (= right) or false (= wrong) by:
- Running and touching the walls with true and false written on them
- Slapping the true and false cards on the table
- Holding up the true card or the false card that you have been given
- Holding up your right hand to be mean true or your left hand to mean false
Your teacher will tell you if you can look at a calendar to help or not.
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Write T for true or F for false next to each of the sentences below.
Specific days and dates
Today is in March.
Tomorrow is in April.
Tomorrow is Sunday.
Yesterday was Thursday.
Monday is the thirty first.
The thirteen of February is Thursday.
The fourteenth of May is Saturday.
Holidays and celebrations
Christmas is in December.
The teacher’s birthday is in summer.
Valentine’s Day is in March.
Your birthday is in September.
Before and after
August is before July.
January is before February.
March is before April.
May is before June.
November is before December.
September is before October.
Weather, seasons and seasonal activities
April is in spring.
August is in summer.
December is in winter.
February is in summer.
January is in winter.
July is in winter.
June is in autumn.
March is in autumn.
May is in spring.
November is in summer.
October is in spring.
September is in autumn.
August is cold.
March is hot.
November is cold.
October is hot.
There are brown and red trees in September.
There are flowers in April.
There are flowers in December.
There is snow in July.
You go skiing in February.
You go skiing in June.
You go to the beach in January.
Long months and short months
April has 30 days.
August has 31 days.
December has 31 days.
February has 30 days.
January has 31 days.
July has 30 days.
June has 31 days.
March has 30 days.
May has 31 days.
November has 30 days.
October has 30 days.
September has 31 days.
Check your answers as a class.
Test each other on the same and then other dates:
- Play the same quick reactions game
- Say a date and see how many true sentences the other students can make about it
Cards to hold up or slap
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True
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False
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