UNIT 8

TIME AND DATE

After this ✓ Use vocabulary and structures related to Time and Date
lesson, students ✓ Answer questions about time and date
will be able to: ✓ Read time and date fluently and make your timetable

I. USEFUL LANGUAGE
1. Seasons
Look at the pictures and guess which seasons are these?

1. ……………………………… 2. ………………………………

3. ……………………………… 4. ………………………………

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2. Months

3. Date

 1st the first

1th: How to say date?
 2nd: the second  6th March: It’s the sixth of March
 3rd: the third  1998: nineteen ninety-eight
 4th: the fourth  2001: two thousand one
 5th: the fifth  6th March, 2021: It’s the sixth of March,
 20th: the twentieth twenty twenty-one

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4. Time
Base on the clock below, write down the time in the table

11:00 eleven o’clock 11:30

11:05 five past eleven 11:35 twenty five to twelve

11:10 11:40

11:15 11:45

11:20 11:50

11:25 11:55

How to say time?

 eleven fifteen 
11:15 10:48
 a quarter past eleven 

 eleven thirty-five 
11:35 5:15
 twenty five to twelve 

 ten O-five 
10:05 5:30
 

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5. Frequency
Make sentences with each word

Words Sentences Words Sentences

every day/
always
every month
every two
usually
days/ weeks

often daily

once a week/
frequently
month
twice a week/
sometimes
month
three times a
rarely
week/ month

never

II. RESPONDING
1. Preposition
a. in + seasons/ years/ months/ the morning/ afternoon/ evening
Eg: in summer ; in 1998 ; in the century
b. on + days/ dates
Eg: on Sunday ; on 6th March ; on 6th March, 2021 ; on my birthday
c. at + time
Eg: at 3 pm ; at noon
2. Questions:

No Questions Answers
Seasons/ Months
How many seasons are there in a
 There are 4 seasons: …
1 year?
How many seasons are there in the  There are … seasons in the north
north/ south of Vietnam? of Vietnam: ...
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What is your favorite season?
What do you usually do in spring/
summer?
How many months are there in a
year?
Which month were you born in?
What is your favorite month of the
year?
When do you go on holiday?
Time/ Dates
 There are … seasons in the south
of Vietnam: …
 My favorite season is …
 I like … most.
 I usually ……… in spring/summer.
 There are 12 months: …
 I was born in …………
 My favorite month is ……….
because …………………….
I go on holiday in summer.

What time do you wake up?  I wake up at …

What time do you have breakfast?  I have breakfast at …

What time do you go to school/ work?

2 What time do you have lunch?

What time do you take a nap?

What time do you come back home?

What time do you have dinner?

What time do you go to bed?

III. CONVERSATION
Anh: Hi, Linh! Have you registered for the next term?
Linh: Hi, Anh. I signed up this morning. I have already registered for five subjects.
How about you?
Anh: Me too. What's your class schedule?
Linh: I'm going to have a translation class on Monday morning at 6:45.
I have to study Chinese twice a week on Wednesday morning at 6:45 and Friday morning
at 9:20.

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Anh: Wonderful! We’re going to study in the same class. What about business language? I
will study on Thursday morning on the first lesson.
Linh: That’s a pity! I’ll study on Thursday at 3 pm.
So what about commercial language 3?
Anh: I also have to study this subject twice a week on Monday afternoon and Wednesday
afternoon. Will you study at that time?
Linh: So great! We’ll still to study in the same class. And what is the last subject?
Anh: I will have a writing class at 6:45 a.m on Friday.
Linh: Oh, last term I finished writing, so this term I signed up for International Commercial
Transactions on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Anh: So we will study those three subjects together.
I’m really looking forward to a new school year.
Linh: Me too. Oh, it's already dinner time. Talk to you later.
Anh: Okay, I'll call you then.

IV. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Exercise 1: Listen and write the correct time on each clock.

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Exercise 2: People are talking to visitors. When did the visitors arrive and when will they
leave? Listen and write down the correct dates

Arrival Departure

0. 1st 14th
1. ………… …………
2. ………… …………
3. ………… …………
4. ………… …………
5. ………… …………

V. CHALLENGES
1. Video challenge: Make a video talking about your timetable at school/ at company
o What time do you get up?
o What time do you have breakfast?
o What time do you take a bus?
o What time do you go to school/ company?
o Talk about your schedule at your school/ company.
o What time do you arrive home?
2. Workbook: Unit 8.

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