Lesson Plan

Teacher´s name: Mairix

Topic: Prepositions of time Unit: 5 Grade: 7th Level: Basic

Language focus: Speaking, Listening and writing. Time: 90 minutes

Objectives:

 Students will learn how to use prepositions of time correctly.

 Students will be able to make sentences using preposition of time + time expressions.

Key Expressions:

 Days of the week and parts of the days, months, years and seasons.

Resources: posters, flash cards, markers, whiteboard, photocopies.

Procedure: Details:

Greeting: Teacher will ask to the students. How are you today?
Presentation and they will answer with the options: fine, very good, so good.

Introduction
Warm up activity:
20 minutes Rock, paper and scissors.
Have 2 students come to the front and play the game rock, paper and
scissors game, the student who loses will have to answer a question.

Question of time expressions.

 What date is today?
 What day is today?
 What year are we now?
 What time did you get up today?

Presentation
Teacher will explain the correct use of propositions of time based on chart
below:
 Preposition Use
At  Time of the day
 Special expression
On  Days and dates
 Day + part of day
In  Part of the day
 Months
 Season
 Years
 Long period

Then, teacher will show some expressions of time using flash card and will
put them in the correct space based on the chart below.

AT

ON IN

Time Expressions:

The end of the month 2015 Summer

The 25th of December the morning Monday
Christmas day time 10 o’clock
A few days Christmas the weekend

Practice Practice:
Each student will have a photocopy and complete each sentence with `at',
20 minutes `in' or `on' plus one of the following:

1492 25 December ancient times January

Monday morning New Year's Eve night 2009

Sundays the 1950s the moment the same time

1. The pop star Michael Jackson died in 2009 .

 2. Christians celebrate Christmas __________.
3. I don't like driving ____________because it's very dark.
4. ____________, people believed in many gods.
5. Rock and roll music became popular ___________ .
6. I'm really busy ______________. Can you call me back later?
7. Are you going to see the fireworks display ____________?
8. Jack arrived late for work ____________.
9. In Europe and the United States, most people do not work ___________.
10. I regularly go skiing ___________ because it snows a lot.
11. Columbus `discovered' America _____________.
12. If everybody speaks ___________, we'll never understand each other.
Activity:
Production Review with students

20 minutes  Students will work in pairs and complete a conversation with “at”,
“in”, “on” where necessary.
 Then, they will practice the conversation in pairs.

Alice: Hi Simon, it's Alice. Are you free - this evening?

Simon: No, I'm afraid I'm busy.
Alice: That's a pity. Are you doing anything ______ the weekend?
Simon: Well, ____ Saturday, I'm meeting old friend. We played football
together ______ last year. But I'm free _____ Sunday.
Alice: Great. How would you like to go to the cinema to see the new James
Bond film?
Simon: Sounds good. What time are they showing the film?
Alice: The film starts _____ 8 o'clock. But we should try to get there a little
early. The cinema gets pretty busy ____ the evening.
Simon: What's the film like?
Alice: I've heard it's the best Bond film ever.
Simon: We'll see. I prefer the ones that came out ____ the 1960s and 70s.
Alice: I'm sure you'll enjoy it! So shall we meet ____ around 7.30?
Simon: Sounds good. We should do this more often ____ the future.
Alice: Yes, we should. There will be a few more interesting films ____ next
weekend too.
Simon: Great! So, see you ______ Sunday evening!
Assessment Teacher´s checklist.
- Make sure they complete all activities correctly.
- Walk around the classroom and listen their pronunciation and help
10 minutes them with any word.

Homework - Students will create 5 sentences in their notebooks using time

propositions.