EXPRESSING PERSONAL AND GROUP ROUTINE /HABITS

Chapter 4
EXPRESSING PERSONAL AND GROUP ROUTINE /HABITS

The aim of this chapter is to make students be able to talk about his/her personal home routine/habits. In this sub topic, the great emphasis is placed on two things: ways of telling time, and ways of expressing the daily habits. Since people repeat some activities every day, it is obvious that these repeated activities are habits that people perform at a particular time and place. In this lesson, students will review telling the time and will then learn to talk about daily routines.

This sub topic focuses on vocabularies that talk about daily routines, and using the present simple in the first and third person. Initially, it is important for students to review telling the time in English, as well as the days of the week. Language to describe routine activities will then be introduced, and students will answer questions about their own daily routines and find out about their classmates’ routines. Therefore, the aims of this sub topic are:

•        To revise telling the time
•         To teach the vocabulary of daily routines
•         To practise the present simple, 1st and 3rd person singular
•         To review question forms with 

Every person or group of people who stay together (school) has daily routine or activity. This can be expressed by different works, everyday, often, usually, daily, every month.

BREAK TIME

At 10:00 A.M break starts. We go out for a break of 30 minutes. During break time, I drink tea with some snacks. At 10:30 A.m. I go back to class. Classes end at 2:00 p.m.

After classes I go home at 2:45 P.M. I eat lunch.

Exercise

As a student’s what is your Daily Routine?

Vocabulary

Take a shower - wash the whole body

Attendance - counting people

Supper - food eaten at the right (a right meal)

Structure

Prepositions

“ON” –is used with days and dates

Examples

- I go to church on Sundays.

- I go to the Mosque on Friday

- I was born on 03 rd May 1978

“AT” –is used with exact time

Examples:

- He come at six o’clock

- We traveled at night

- The lesson starts at 8:00 am.

“IN” –is used with parts of the day, months and years

Examples:

- He came in the evening

- School will be closed in December

- He was born in 2009

Asking questions.

We can also ask questions using does, do

Note: Does –is for singular nouns and pronouns

Do –is for plural nouns and pronouns.

Examples:

(i) Does she speak English?

(ii) Does he come to school late?

(iii) Does she smoke?

(iv) Do they speak English?

(v) Do they come to school late?

(vi) Do we have to write our names?

Exercise

Make question using does and do

1. Does …………………………..? 2. Does …………………………..? 3. Do ….…………………………..? 4. Do ….…………………………..?