Telling the Time

A1 · Beginner57 minBasic BasicsLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: ask the time and say it with o'clock, half past, quarter past, and quarter to.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: What time is it?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What Time Is It?

    Read a 61-word text about What Time Is It?

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Time Words

    5 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Complete the Time

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the Times

    Matching exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Ask About the Time

    Role-play: You ask a stranger for the time (5 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: a day in times

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

o'clockhalf pastquarter pastquarter tominute

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