School subjects and timetables lesson plan
“School days”
Lesson 11 Level 4 Age 9-12
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Lesson 11
School subjects and timetables
In this lesson students talk about the school subjects they study. They also practice saying the time and the days of the week. They finish by reading about and writing a school timetable.
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Age: 9-12 years
Time: 1 hour – 1 hour 30 mins
Objectives: Learn words to say school subjects, say days and the time of day, read about one student’s school day, create a school timetable.
Structures: “What time is it now?”, “It’s (ten after eleven)”, “What day of the week is it today?”, “Today is (Friday)”, “I love (Biology)”, “(Art) is my favorite subject”, “I have (Physics) on (Tuesday morning) at (11 o’clock)”.
Key vocabulary: Sunday~Saturday, o’clock, Math, English, History, Biology, Portuguese, Physics, Chemistry, French, Geography, Art, morning, afternoon.
Grammar focus:
– Nouns for school subjects (e.g. History).
– ‘have’ in the present simple to talk about schedules (e.g. Mark has History at 9 o’clock on Mondays”).
Your students will need:
- a pen
- a pencil
- a notebook
- [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] pencils
For this level 4 course, use either the PDF mini-textbooks – print out copies for each student, or if you have a projector or large screen you can use PowerPoint lessons. In both cases, follow the lesson through as it appears in the materials. The lesson is self-explanatory, and there are additional teaching notes below.
Lesson procedure:
Lesson objectives
Learn words to say school subjects
Say days and the time of day
Read about one student’s school day
Create a school timetable
1. Review weather vocabulary and structures
Students review the previous lesson.
Review a: Chorus the weather vocabulary paying special attention to the underlines stress. Finish with the drawing quiz.
Review b: Chorus the sentences. Then have pairs ask and answer the questions to talk about the current weather.
2. Days, dates and times of the day
This section of the lesson prepares students for the school timetable section of the lesson.
1a: First, see if you can elicit the days vocabulary and write them on the board. Chorus the days paying attention to word stress. Then run through the questions, first in pairs, then as a class.
1b: Show a clock in your classroom and elicit the time. Then have students draw the clock and write the time in their notebooks. Finally, have students draw clocks showing the different times.
3. School subjects
2a: Start by eliciting school subjects and writing them on the board. Then look at the page and chorus the subjects. Have students match the subjects to the course books.
2b: Have students work in pairs to write the subjects in order from [hide_on_uk]favorite[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]favourite[/hide_on_us] to least [hide_on_uk]favorite[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]favourite[/hide_on_us].
4. School timetable – reading and writing
3a: Students read the text about a student’s timetable and write the subjects and times on the blank timetable. Then check the answers on the next page.
3b: Point out that the verb “have” is used when saying when explaining timetables. Have students say sentences about the timetable on the page using the structure. Finally, have students write down their own school timetables and then compare with other students using the structure with “have”.
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