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Objectives:
The students will be able to express what they don’t usually do on weekends
Linguistic: the students will be able to recognize the grammar structure of the negative sentences in the
present simple tense and the use of preposition of time
Pragmatic: the students will be able to interact with other students about their own daily activities
Procedure:
1. The teacher will start by showing to the students some flashcards then, asking some yes – no questions
about the students’ everyday activities. (Downloadable material from www.mes-english.com)
I. Warm up
Yes – no questions (Orally)
1. Do you brush your teeth every day? (Does he/she brush his/her )
2. Do you have breakfast in the afternoon? (Does he/she…?)
3. Do you go to school on Sundays?
4. Do you drink juice in the morning?
5. Do you study eight hours a day?
6. Do you watch TV at night?
7. Do you go to the park on weekdays?
8. Do you go to parties on Mondays?
II. The students listen, read and repeat with the teacher the dialog about Tomas and Ana, and then they take
turns acting out the conversation.
III. Students read the conversation again and answer the questions at the end of it.
James is a very active person, he gets up very early in the morning, and goes to work, he does not have
breakfast in his house, but in his job.
He works eight hours a day in an office, he has to write reports, sign papers and attend to meetings every
day.
At noon he has lunch and continues his activities, at the end of the day, he gets tired and he gets home at
8:00 p.m.
Finally, he goes to bed at 9:00 p.m., he does not go out on weekdays, and he does not watch TV or listen to
music.
On weekends he does different activities, he wakes up late in the morning and prepares his breakfast, and
then he watches TV and does exercise.
He does not have to go to his office; he does not have to attend to meetings or sign papers. He meets his
friends in the afternoon and play sports with them.
Every two weeks, he goes to visit his parents, and every holiday he goes to the beach with them.
GRAMMAR TIME
1. Arrange these words in the correct form.
a. Maria/speak/French/does/well/not ______________________________________________
b. not/Peter/exercise/day/does/every_____________________________________________
c. on/not/do/study/We/Saturdays_____________________________________________
d. to/the/on/weekends/My/does/not/go/sister/park___________________________________
e. Sunday/mother/does/on/not/her/cook ___________________________________________
2. Answer these questions with yes/no based on your own (follow the example)
Example: DO YOU WAKE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING? Yes I wake up early in the morning
Or… No, I don’t wake up early in the morning
DIDACTIC UNIT
4. Complete the gaps with the correct preposition: in – at – on – every (take a look at the activity 2.1)
a. I usually go dancing _______ Saturdays.
b. James finishes work ______ 5:00 o´clock.
c. He wakes up early ______ the morning.
d. I brush my teeth ________ day.
e. Maria does exercises ______ Tuesdays and Fridays.
f. I usually wake up _______ 7: 00 o´clock _____ the morning.
Class activity: write three things you take to your school and three you don’t.
Homework:
Work in pairs.
Write your friend’s daily routine and the things he/she does not do on weekends, remember to include time
prepositions like at/in/on and every.
Assessment:
We can see the process of learning of the students as they participate and talk about the activities they do or
do not do.
The idea at the end of the unit is to provide the students with an appropriate input for them to express
themselves.
For more listening practice, Students can go to www.esl-lab.com
For more grammar explanation, you can go to www.englisch-hilfen.de or google it as present simple
explanation