Teacher Guide
This worksheet is designed to give students practice and confidence talking about the times things will happen in the future and when they happened in the past. Always encourage them to use full sentences when responding. Review some examples of telling the time and check they are using the correct vocabulary, especially whether to use "to" or "past" when reading the time from the clock.
Note the use of the verb "to be" in the past "was" and future "will be". Have the students work through each section and check they're doing the calculations correctly.
05mins - Introduction: What did you do last weekend? Do you often do the same activities on the weekends? Do you prefer to see your friends or spend time with your family?
05mins - Review the online homework. What topics were discussed? Was the homework easy, medium or difficult? Answer any questions the students may have.
05mins - Review: Simple past verbs. Have each student write a question about an event that happened in the past. Ex: Where did you go on your summer holiday?
05mins - Review: The 24-hour clock + time vocabulary: a.m., p.m., past, to, a quarter past, half past, a quarter to, before, after, during
10mins - Activity: Alibi: Half the class are suspected of a murder and the other half are their alibis. In pairs, they have to create timelines of what they were doing the day of the murder. They are then questioned separately, and the pair with the most differences between their stories are the guilty ones.
10mins - Worksheet: 17 time - what time is it?
10mins - Test: 17 writing practice - part 1.
05mins - Warm down: goodbye see you next time
00mins - Homework: complete the next section of the online homework.
It's a quarter past six.
It will be seven past eleven.
It was five to four.
It's 10:35
It will be 3:27
It was five past eight.
It's ten to six.
It will be 10:42
It was half-past three.
It's two to two.
It will be ten to seven.
It was 11:38.