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Teacher’s NotesA perfect day

Type of activity: individual work/ pair work/group workFocus: vocabulary connected with describing daily routines, adverbs of frequency (always/never/sometimes, etc.), the use of the Present Simple Tense (positive and negative sentences/questions/short answers) – all persons singular and plural.Level: elementary/lower pre-intermediateTime: 45 minutesPreparation: a copy of „A perfect day I...” worksheet for each student, large sheets of paper (1 for each group of 3–4 students), crayons, paints, cut-outs from magazines presenting different activities, scissors.

Procedure:

1. Warm-up: write „A perfect day is when I ....” on the whiteboard. Encourage your students to brainstorm by fi nishing the sentence (e.g., „A perfect day is when it’s summer and it’s hot” or „A perfect day is when I can swim in the sea”, etc.). If necessary, you can write some of the answers on the board or give your students some more words/ideas. (5 minutes)

2. Hand out the „On a perfect day I ...............?” questionnaire (Worksheet) to each student. First ask them to think about possible answers and tick the activities which are true for themselves – Exercise 1 (5 minutes)

3. Explain that now the students are supposed to elicit the same information from other classmates (Exercise 2). Their task is to go around the classroom and interview three people by asking questions „Do you .................. on a perfect day?” e.g. „Do you study maths on a perfect day?” Their task is to mark Yes/No answers for each of the people interviewed. Encourage the students to give short direct answers – Yes, I do/No, I don’t – or indirect answers, e.g. Oh, yes I love it! Yes, sometimes/ No, never, etc. If necessary, you should pre-teach these expressions and show possible answers to the students. Make sure that every student has a chance to talk to three people in the classroom. (10 minutes)

4. Ask the students to come back to their seats and elicit what they have found out. Encourage them to use the third person singular forms in the Present Simple Tense to talk about other people. e.g. Anna gets up late on a perfect day. She meets her friends and goes to the cinema, etc. If you wish to practice more Present Simple forms with your students, you may ask „Who studies maths on a perfect day?” and elicit „Anna does and Robert does, but Klara doesn’t”. Try to correct students any time that they forget about -s/-es forms that go with the Present Simple Tense. (10 minutes)

5. Ask the students to work in small groups of 3–4. Their task is to make a poster presenting their ideas about „A perfect day”. They may use all techniques they want – they may draw, paint or cut out pictures from magazines/newspapers. If you run out of time, this activity may be done as homework. (15 minutes)

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