TN_klasy_4_6_lekcja3.pdf

Teacher’s Notes

Back to school – Lesson 3

Type of activity: whole-class, group and pair work

Focus: time, days of the week, months, seasons;

speaking, listening and reading skills

Level: elementary – pre-intermediate, grades 4–6

Time: 45 minutes

Materials: Student’s Worksheet 1 – Lesson 3, an

egg timer, (for the Extension activity) Student’s

Worksheet 2 – Lesson 3.

Preparation: Make a copy of Student’s Worksheet

1 per student. (For the Extension activity) Copy and

cut out the cards from Student’s Worksheet 2 – one

set for each group of 4 students.

the gaps. Explain any words they do not

understand. Go through the example with the

whole class. The students then complete the

sentences with the words in the boxes.

8. In pairs, the students compare their answers.

Check the answers with the whole class. Then

ask the students to put their worksheets face

down on their desks. Read out the gapped

sentences from the worksheet, inserting the beep

sound where the gaps are. Pause after each

sentence and wait for the students to call out the

correct answer, e.g., There are (beep) seconds in

a minute (60).

Answers: 1. 60, 2. 60, 3. 12, 4. 7, 5. Sunday, 6.

Tuesday, Thursday, 7. Monday, 8. 12, 9. October,

10. January, 11. 31, 12. July, August, 13.

December, 14. April, June, 15. February, 16.

September, 17. 30, 18. seasons, 19. spring, 20.

winter

Procedure:

1. Explain that today’s lesson is about time and the

calendar. Write the following words on the board,

in mixed order: second, minute, hour, day, week,

month, season, year. In pairs, the students put

these in order from the shortest to the longest

amount of time. Set a time limit of 3 minutes.

Check the answers with the whole class. Make

sure everybody understands all the words.

2. Teach or review the days of the week. Say the

days in order a few times. The students repeat

after you and then join in. Then say the ﬁ rst

syllable of each day and students ﬁ nish the words

on their own. Finally, mouth the words and the

students say them aloud. Repeat the whole

procedure with the days in backward order:

Sunday, Saturday, etc.

3. Put the students into pairs. Student A has to say

the days of the week in the correct order from

memory as many times as possible within 2

minutes. Student B counts how many times their

friend says the complete sequence. Set the egg

timer to 2 minutes. Then students change roles.

Student B tries to beat Student A’s record.

4. In their pairs, the students repeat stage 3 above,

but say the sequence backwards, starting with

Sunday.

5. If the students have not studied the days of the

week previously, write those on the board in

mixed order. The students reorder the days and

copy the sequence into the notebooks.

6. Teach or review the months of the year, using the

same procedure as for the days of the week in

Stages 2–5.

7. Give each student a copy of Student’s

Worksheet 1. Pre-teach: right after, right before.

Ask the students to read the sentences, ignoring

Extension

Pre-teach: Labour Day and Independence Day. With

an elementary class, introduce the Saxon genitive.

Put students into groups of 4. Give each group a set

of cards from Students’ Worksheet 2. Groups read

the questions and write the correct month for each

event as it is celebrated in Poland. Point out that

some of the holidays may fall on different dates

around the world. Either give students a Polish

calendar for reference or group representatives can

ask you the questions from the cards if necessary.

Check the answers with the whole class. Then the

groups mix the cards and put them face down.

Group members take turns to pick a card and read

out the question. The ﬁ rst student to call out the

correct answer receives the card. The person with

the most cards at the end, wins.

Answers: 1. teacher’s own answer, 2. June, 3. June,

4. May, 5. January, 6. January, 7. December,

8. October, 9. September, 10. June, 11. November,

12. May, 13. February, 14. October.

Additionally, quiz your students on their school

timetable. Explain that we say on + day of the week

and ask various students about different classes

they have, e.g., When is English/Polish/maths? etc.

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