What did you do today

What did you do today? Time, Daily Routines and Past Tense. Lesson Plan for Young Learners: A Comprehensive Free English Lesson Plan (Online and In-Class) with online Videos and Games

What did you do today? Time, Daily Routines and Past Tense

Whether you’re an educator seeking engaging materials for your online or in-class lessons, we have you covered. This free English lesson plan includes a variety of videos and games to create a fun and interactive learning experience for your students.

Young learners thrive when learning is both educational and enjoyable. That’s why this lesson plan combines language acquisition with playfulness, helping children develop their English skills. From vocabulary building to listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, our lesson plan covers it all.

Lesson Plan Young Learners

Objective:

The objective of the “What did you do today?” lesson plan is to enable students to effectively communicate about their daily activities, focusing on the concept of time, daily routines, and the past tense. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to confidently describe their activities and experiences using appropriate time references and past tense verbs. Through interactive activities and engaging exercises, learners will strengthen their language skills, expand their vocabulary, and gain a deeper understanding of expressing past events in English. This comprehensive lesson plan aims to foster language fluency and enhance students’ communication abilities while building their confidence in discussing their daily routines and past experiences.


Time: 60-120 minutes


Materials

  • Digital whiteboard software: Videos and Games
  • Material: Pdf and Powerpoints

Warm up

Daily Routines and Time

Watch the video and introduce topics

Ask about what time it is, or what time the students get up or have lunch…

game

Activity 1

Game: Time to the hour

Click on the button an play the game

game

Activity 2

Game: Time to the half-hour

Click on the button and play the game

Go through hours and half-hours

Activity 3

Game: Learn digital time

Click on the button and play the game

Let each student have a go at stopping the clock

Activity 4

Game: Set the Clock: Time to 5 Minutes

Click on the button and play the game

Let each student have a go at setting the right time

Activity 5

Game: Match the correct times

Click on the button and play the game

Let each student have a go at matching the times. This is broken up to 5 minutes so it is more difficult

Activity 6

Game: Select the correct time

Click on the button and play the game

Let each student have a go at selecting the correct time

Activity 7

Board game

Play board game as a class

Print out board game but also use it on the screen

Activity 8

Video story

Click on the button and play the game

Go through each section of the story with class

warm up

Activity 9

What time do you…?

Click on the button and play the Wheel decide game together

3 questions per student

warm up

Breaktime Activity

Daily Routines

Click on the button an play the games on daily routines

Activity 10

Click on the button and play the game together

Activity 11

What did you do today?

Watch the videos and introduce the topic

game


Activity 12

Spin the wheel: What/When?

Click on the button below and play the game

Spin the wheel, ask the questions. 3 questions per student.

game

Activity 13

Card game

Give students several cards, get them to say “At [time] I [activity]” in either Present simple or past simple

Activity 14

Game: Phrasal Verbs

Get students to guess/figure out the phrasal verbs

Use to determine how much students know already

Wrap up

Class Game

Write a time on the board, then set the interactive clock to different times. Students have to take a step forward and say each time, until it reaches the time written on the board (dinner time), at which point they must run back and any that are caught are out.

For additional resources, you can consult these books

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