School Subjects and The Time

Link to the School Subjects product that keeps growing: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Subjects-for-ESL-4548123978

Watch the video with the complete resource:

  

Teaching school subjects and time helps elementary ESL students talk about their daily schedule and routines. By combining subjects, days of the week, and time expressions, students can use English in meaningful, real-life situations.

This is the link for the TIME cards, so useful with the School Subjects.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Telling-the-time-for-ESL-4532035

Create a Timetable with Subjects and Time

Start by creating a timetable on the board with the words that they already know from previous lessons such as the subjects, the days of the week and the time. Use the flashcards.

Ask questions:

Teacher: When do you have Math?

Students: On Monday and Wednesday.

Teacher: What time do you have Math?

Students: at 9 o’clock.

Teacher: You have Math on Monday and Wednesday at 9 o’clock.

Have the students make sentences as you assign a subject.

Marcos: When do you have Music?

Students: I have Music on Tuesday at a quarter past one.

Ask and Answer Questions About Schedules

Where are you? Have the students say where they are and other people at a specific time using the digital clocks cards.

Teacher: Where are you at 10:25?

Students: I am in Math class.

Teacher: Where is Lily at 11:40?

Students: she is in Writing class.

Teacher: Where are James and Frank at 1:30?

Students: They are in P.E.

School starts and ends.

 Introduce the words start and finish using the flashcards.

Teacher: What time does school start?

Students: It starts at 8 o’clock.

Teacher: What time does school finish?

Students: It finishes at half past three.

Build Full Sentences with Time Expressions

Use the flashcards on the board to make more examples for sentences. Have the students make more sentences on their notebooks.

Play a Timetable Game Board

And for more practice make a game board.

 I found this cute clip art for game boards. It reminded me of Monopoly. I made a basic board ,each color on the board has its own cards to complete the task in order to move to other end.

Print, cut and organize all the items of this game. 

If the student lands on the green space, he/she reads the question on the green space and answer looking at the first green card on the pile.

Students roll the die and move their pawns around the board. When a student lands on a colored space, they answer the question for that color. In this example, the student lands on pink, reads the pink question card, and answers it.

Teaching people and places together helps students understand how language is used in real-life situations. It allows them to describe where people are and what they do, improving both vocabulary and communication skills. Go to the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/05/school-people-and-places.html

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