This lesson plan is for a 60 minute English lesson on telling time for 9-10 year old students. The lesson includes various activities to help students learn how to tell analog and digital time, including looking at word cards about time, watching a video on how to make clocks, singing a song about time, matching clock cards, and drawing a watch showing a time as homework. The objectives are for students to be able to ask and answer questions about time, learn about minutes, follow instructions, learn classroom language, and cooperate in pairs and groups.

1. LESSON PLAN
Created by Mert BALLI-Turkey
UNIT: TIME (Lesson 1)
SUBUNIT: Telling the time
Age group 9-10 years old
Time: 60 minutes
Resources- Materials:
 Video shows from the web
 Ten appropriate words about the time
 I have ..who has activity cards
 Clothespin and Matching Cards
 Rock Around Clock activity cards
and pens
 Paper plate ,black marker,scissors,
Paper fastener,a piece of constraction
paper
Recycledlanguage: What time is it?
It is 8 O’clock..etc.
New language: Analoganddigital
time,rock aroundthe clock,stopwatch…
Objectives:
Pupils should be able to:
1. Ask and answer about time expressions in English
2.Learn the concept of 1 minute
3.Follow the instructions of teacher
4.Comprehend basic classroom language
5.Learn how to cooperate both in pair and group work
activities.
Time Procedure
5’
Warm -Up
The teacher asks to the students the concept of One Minute and what does
it refer to them?One minute is long or short?Then he gets the
answers.Then the teacher hangs up ten appropriate words about time on
the board.Gives students One Minute to look over and then remove and
give them one minute .They will try to write as many words as they can .
After that ask them to stand up and raise their hands and wait for one
minute.this is a P.E test.
The activity above might open the students’ to how quickly a minute can
pass however a minute can pass slowly in a P.E test.
Whole class
Individual

2. 10’
5’
10’
10’
Main part
Activity 1. The teacher shows the clock and review the numbers first up
to twelve.Then start to teach the Time, O’clock ,quarter past,half past
etc.Also teaches the digital expressions.
Activity 2. The teacher shows the song about TIME and act with the
students and it will also help students to learn how to telling the time.
Activity 3. The teacher shows the video about how to prepare Clock by
using some materials then the students try to prepare a paper clock and
maybe they can decorate their clocks according to their creativity.
Activity 4.The teacher gives the cards and dry erase marker and
tissue.The students write a digital time ,then the teacher start the music
Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley.When the music stop they look at
the digital time and try to draw analog time.Again the teacher starts the
music again but this time they correct the analog and if it is true ,they sit
quietly.
Whole Class
Individual
Whole Class
Whole Class
Pair Work
Whole Class
Individual
15’
5’
Activity 5. The teacher explain the activity and students try to
match the cards with the clothespin according to the pictures of clocks.
Evaluation
The teacher gives a paper which is about a watch and it shows the time in
a very practical way and the students will try to draw it at home.
Group Work
Individual