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Our Time

Written by Paul Adams for Teach-This.com 20I3

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Our Time
Procedure
Before you start the activity, revise telling the time with the class. Draw a clock on the board
and write different times. Ask the students, what time is it? Make sure students use past, to,
quarter past/to, and half past correctly.
Ask individual students about their daily routine, and what they do at certain times of the day,
e.g. What time do you get up? What time do you have lunch? Etc.
Explain that the students are going to ask each other the time.
Ask students to write the names of everybody in the class on a piece of paper.
Then give each student a clock. (If you have a large class, you may wish to divide the class
into two groups)
Tell the students to draw a time on the clock, which is important to them. Try to get the
students to choose a time that is not on the hour. When they draw the time, they should
indicate whether the time is am or pm.
Students mingle asking and telling each other the time. Every time a student asks another
student for their time, they should find out why it is important.
After each conversation, they go back to their desks and write the time next to the name of
the student they spoke to and the reason for its importance.
Go around listening, and correcting as necessary.
When everybody has finished, organize your students into pairs.
In their pairs, students put the names of everybody in the class (or in their group) in order
according to who had the earliest to latest time on their clock.
They then write a sentence for each student about what they do at that time, e.g. At half past
seven, Steve arrives at the bus stop. At quarter past eight, Kim eats breakfast.
Ask students to write their name on their clocks. Then collect the clocks and place them in
order on your desk.
Have a feedback session and check the order with the class.

Written by Paul Adams for Teach-This.com 20I3