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Hello students! Today we are going to talk about school and daily activities and habits.

For this we need


to use time expressions and frequency adverbs. First let's talk about some new vocabulary about school.

elementary school this is when you go to school as a child.

After elementary school you go to high school when you are a teenager.

After high school you attend University in all of these places you go to class to study.

You have a classroom at school.

During break time they go to the playground.

You may also have a sports ground, where you do different sports like football or baseball.

The person who teaches you is your teacher.

You the person learning the student.

To study and to learn we need to have a book.

To write important information that your teacher says you need a pen.

If you prefer you can use a pencil with

When you make a mistake you need an eraser to change your mistake.

You sit at a desk

Sit an a chair

Your teacher and sometimes you will write back on this board

Computer for information

let's practice

Do you go to elementary school? No, I don't I go to university. Children go to elementary school.

Where is the board? The board is behind you.

Is there a computer here? No, there isn't. There is one in the computer classroom.

How many pencils do you have? I have two pencils.

How many pens do you have? I have three pounds.

What color are they? They are red blue and black.

How many chairs are there? There are three chairs.

Do we have a playground? No, we don't. An elementary school has a playground.

look and listen

He is a student.

She is a teacher.

This is her desk.


This is my computer.

There are three chairs.

Let's talk about different subjects that we learn in school.

English

We also learn how to count people, apples, money and that's math

Science that we can learn wonderful things about our physical world.

history so we can learn the stories of the people before us.

geography that we can know where things are in the world.

sports

art we can learn how to draw and paint art.

music we sometimes learn how to play the piano or the guitar music.

computer studies

Let's talk about some verbs that we use about school

study write

learn work

teach play

listen sing

speak draw

read

Before we practice let's review present continuous verbs

Remember that, we use “be” + _____ ing.

He is reading a book.

Let's practice we will practice using present continuous verbs

What is she doing? She is singing good song.

What is he doing? He is studying English.

What is he doing? He's reading a book. Maybe it is an English book.

What is she doing? She is playing tennis.

What is she doing? She is painting pictures.


What are we doing now? We are studying English.

look and listen

She is reading a book in the library.

She is drawing a picture.

We are using computers.

They are looking at a globe for geography class.

Let's review times

It's 9 o'clock.

It's half past 10.

It's 20 past 2.

It's quarter to 4.

Practice using time

What time is it? Now it's 3:00.

What time is this? A quarter past ten.

What's a different way to say this? It's 10:15.

What time is it? It's 5:30.

In the morning

in the afternoon

in the evening

at night

on weekends

at weekends

on Monday

subject + verb + object + time expression

I go to school on weekdays.

I learn English at 11 o'clock in the morning.

I play sports in the afternoon.


Now we can ask questions with do for general time. Remember this is simple present and we make
questions like this. Do/does + subject + main verb …..?

Can look like this? Yes, I do./ No, I don't.

Yes, she does.

No, she doesn't.

We need to practice

Do you go to school in the morning? Yes, I do. I go to school in the morning.

Do you go to school in the evening? No, I don't. I go to school in the morning.

Do you go to school on weekends? No, I don't. I go to school on weekdays.

Do you study English on Mondays? Yes, I do. I study English on Mondays.

Do you play tennis on Fridays? No, I thought I plated is on Thursdays.

Let's answer questions with what for specific time.

What time do you do that? or What time does he do that?

let's practice

What time do you start school? I start school at 8:30 a.m.

What time do you finish school? I finished school at half past four in the afternoon.

What time do you have lunch at school? I have lunch it's 1:00 p.m.

Remember “What time” means the same as “When”

Let's listen to this conversation using when questions.

Hi Kristina! How are you?

Hi Patrick! I'm fine thanks and you?

I am fine. When do you go to school Kristina? I go to circle in the morning on weekdays.

Oh, do you have an English class in school? Yes, I do. I love my English class.

When is it? It's at two o'clock in the afternoon.

When do you finish school Kristina?

I finished school at 4 p.m.

Oh, great. So do you want to meet me at 4. We can go to the cinema together.


questions about the conversation

When does Christina go to school? She goes to school on weekdays mornings.

When does she have an English class? She has an English class at 2 o clock in the afternoon.

When will Patrick and Christina meet? They will meet at 4:00 p.m.

When do you go to school? I go to school on weekdays.

When do you go to school? I've got the school on weekdays.

When do you play volleyball? I play volleyball in the morning on weekends.

When do you study computers? I study computers on Mondays and Fridays.

When do you do your homework? I do my homework in a minute.

look and listen

When do you study English?

We study English every day.

What time does your brother go to school?

He goes to school at 8:30.

When does your mother finish school?

She finishes at 3:15.

Let's look at other ways of talking about time. Sometimes you have to time expressions instead of one.

New vocabulary

on weekdays

on weekday mornings

on weekends

on weekend afternoons

on Mondays

on Monday mornings

on Fridays

on Friday afternoons

We 're ready to practice

When do you go to school? I go to school on weekdays.

When do you do homework? I do homework in the evenings.


When do you play football for school? I play football in the afternoons.

Do you play football on the weekends? Yes, I do.

Let's look at sentence structure with time expressions sentence structure.

subject + verb + object + time expression

Let's look at these examples

I go to school on weekdays.

You go to school in the morning.

They have an art class in the afternoon.

You finish school at 3:30 p.m.

I don't go to school on weekends.

You don't go to school in the evening.

They don't have an art class in the afternoon.

We will look at other time expressions

around

early

late

until

before

after

Subject + V + (O) TE 1 TE 2

Let's look at some examples

I go to school around 8: 00 in the morning.

I usually study until 10:00 in the evening.

She plays volleyball after eleven o'clock on Thursday mornings.

We get up early.

We go to bed late.
She studies geography before noon on Mondays.

practice

When do you do your homework? I do my homework after seven o'clock.

When do you play football? I play football at 4:00 in the afternoon.

We can ask and answer questions with multiple time expressions.

Let's practice

Do you get up early in the morning? Yes, I do. I get up at 7:45 a.m.

Do the students usually do their homework early in the morning? No, they don't.

Does your teacher work on weekend mornings? No, she doesn't. She works on weekday mornings.

Does the English class finish around three o'clock in the afternoon on Friday? Yes, it does. It finishes at
2:55 on Friday.

Do the students go home after 2:55 on Fridays? Yes, they go home after 2:55 on Fridays.

Does the math teacher work until 5:00 p.m.? Yes, he does. He works on to 4:00 p.m. and then he goes
home.

look and listen

Do you get up early on Mondays? Yes, I do.

I get up around 7:20 on Monday mornings.

Do you get up early on Sundays? No, I don't.

I get up late on Sundays because I don't go to school.

Do you go to school after 8 p.m. on weekdays? No, I don't.

I go to school before 8 p.m. on weekdays.

Let's practice some more.

around / on

Mark goes to school ____ 9:00 on weekdays.

Mark goes to school around 9:00 on weekdays.

Early / late

He doesn't like school because he gets up very ____.

He doesn't like school because he gets up very early.


At / in

He starts classes ___ 9:30.

He starts classes at 9:30.

Until / around

He works hard __ lunchtime.

He works hard until lunchtime.

After / or

____ lunch he has a computer lesson.

After lunch he has a computer lesson.

until / at

He studies computers __ the class finishes.

He studies computers until the class finishes.

At/ until ; before / after

He goes home ___ at or until 4:00 p.m. ___ his computer class.

He goes home at 4:00 p.m. after his computer class.

after / around

He goes to bed ___ 11 o'clock.

He goes to bed around 11 o'clock.

let's practice all the time

When do you get up on weekdays? I get up around quarter to 8:00 on big days.

Do you go to school on weekends? No, I don't I go to school on weekdays.

Do you wake up early on weekends? No, I wake up late on weekends because I don't go to school.

Do you do your homework before noon on Mondays? No, I don't.

When do you do your homework? I do my homework in the evening on Mondays.

When they finish school on Fridays? I finished school at 3:45 on Fridays. I study until 3:45.

Do you go to school until midnight? No, I don't I go to school until four o'clock in the afternoon.

Do you have English classes before launch on weekdays? No, I don't. I have English classes after lunch on
weekdays.

Does your teacher go home early on Fridays? No, she doesn't. She goes home late on Fridays. Today is
Friday maybe we'll go home early.

When do you get home after school? I get home around 4:15 after school.

When do you go to bed on weekdays? I go to that on weekdays around 2:10 PM.


Why so early? Because I have to get up early for school around 6:45.

Oh that is early.

listen carefully and answer some questions about this conversation

Hi Alex!

How are you? I'm fine thanks.

How are you? I'm okay but I'm very tired.

Why are you tired? I had a lot of homework last night so I studied until 11 p.m. I went to bed late at
night.

When did you wake up this morning? I woke up early at around 7:30. That's too bad you should relax
tonight and wake up late tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Saturday so there is no school. Yes, but I'm going to visit my grandparents in the morning
so I will wake up early before 9 a.m.

I am sorry about that.

I will sleep until noon tomorrow.

Lucky you.

answer the questions about the conversation

Why is Tracy tired? Tracy is tired because she went to bed late at night.

When did Tracy study last night? She study it until 11:00 p.m.

What time did she wake up this morning? She woke up around 7:30 this morning.

When will she wake up tomorrow morning? She will wake up before 9:00 a.m.

Will Alex wake up early tomorrow? No, he will sleep until noon.

look and listen

The students take the bus to school in the morning.

My sister goes to elementary school on weekdays.

My brother starts school at 8:30 in the morning.

We read books in the morning.

listen and write

Andrew never does his homework.

Allie and Selma often cook pizza and spaghetti.


Denis exercises every day.

Ms. Brown always prepares her lessons in the evening.

Eric doesn't like fish so he never goes to a fish restaurant.

Jeff always cleans his room in the morning.

Before school Elizabeth often goes to the library.

On weekends Judith plays tennis every weekend.

James and John go swimming every Sunday.

Mary finishes school every day at 3 p.m.

read and answer

Fiona and Kate are sisters. They go to high school. They wake up early on weekdays because they take
the bus to their school around 8 o'clock in the morning. Fiona's favorite class is art. She has an art class
before noon on Mondays and Thursdays. Kate loves to play sports. Her sports class starts at 10:00 a.m.
She plays sports after 10. They work hard in school until 3:30. They are good students, but they love
weekends because they can wake up late in the morning. On weekends, they like to play tennis and go
swimming when the weather is warm. When the weather is cold, they like to play computer games and
read books. On Sundays, Kate and Fiona like to visit their grandmother. She always bakes a chocolate
cake for them. They love her chocolate cake! Once a year, Fiona and Kate go on holiday with their
parents. They usually go to the beach in play volleyball with their friends.

answer these questions

Do they wake up late on weekdays? No, they wake up early on weekdays.

What time do they take the bus to school? They take the bus to school around 8:00 in the morning.

When does Fiona have an art class? She has an art class before noon on Mondays and Thursdays.

When does Kate play sports? Her sports class starts at 10 a.m.

Why do they love weekends? Love weekend's because they can wake up late in the morning.

What do they like to do when the weather is warm? They like to play tennis and go swimming.

What do they like to do when the weather is cold? They like to play computer games and read books.

What to Fiona and Kate like to do on Sundays? They like to visit their grandmother.

What is their favorite dessert? Their favorite dessert is chocolate cake.

What do they like to do on holiday? They like to play volleyball with their friends.

see you next time.

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