Teacher Guide
This is a fun activity that combines several skills including reading comprehension and telling the time and even mathematics! Have the students read the story and make notes about the times he starts and finishes each activity. Then they can answer the questions. Have them read the story out loud. If there's time they could even illustrate Sam's afternoon on the back of the sheet.
10mins: Introduction - Beginner questions 'What's your name, how old are you, where are you from, have you got any brothers or sisters? What's your favourite day of the week? What do you usually do on this day? What's one thing you like? One think you don't like?
10mins: Review: Prepositions of placement and movement - in, on, under, in front of, behind, between, towards, away from, off, onto, into, out of, around. Use a ball to demonstrate these prepositions, then ask each student to demonstrate a preposition.
10mins: Review: The 24-hour clock. Introduce time vocabulary terms: a.m., p.m., o'clock, past, to/till, a quarter past, half past, a quarter to, before, after, during.
10mins: Activity: Time test - the teacher will say a series of 'times' from the day. Students will need to write a sentence for each time, describing what they do at that time.
15mins: Worksheet: page 18 - Sam's Busy Day
05mins: Warm Down: Goodbye + points. Pack up supplies, help students prepare to leave and straighten out the classroom.
- a quarter past three / 3:15
- four o'clock / 4:00
- at five to five / 4:55
- for three hours and 23 minutes