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• Topic: Days of the week ESL Lesson
• Communication Objectives: This lesson will teach ESL learners how to talk about days of the week and activities we do during the week.
• Language Objectives:  Learn the days of the week and describe weekly activities using adverbs of frequency.

• Dialogue Story:  The children are return from school on a Friday. They are looking forward to the weekend with no lessons. A conversation about week day activities begins.
• Sentence Structures:
  • Today is Friday.
  • Tomorrow is Saturday.
  • School is five days a week.
  • What do you usually do on weekends, Sally?
  • I usually stay at home and watch TV.
  • We sometimes play volleyball at the park.
  • We never have picnics.

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• Topic: Telling time, o'clock, half past
• Communication Objectives: This lesson extends the previous lesson on telling time by including 'quarter to' and 'quarter past'.
• Language Objectives:  The goal is to teach ESL learners more ways of telling the time.

• Dialogue Story:  This lesson continues from the previous one. In the previous time lesson, Lisa and Freddie get up late. In this lesson, they arrive late for school and get punished by the school headmaster. They end up coming home late too.
• Sentence Structures:
  • It's a quarter past 8 and you are late for lessons.
  • What time do you usually go to bed?
  • We usually go to bed at a quarter to 11.
  • It's 3:30 pm and our lessons are over for today.

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• Topic: Time for School Lesson
• Communication Objectives: This lesson will teach ESL students how to tell the time English.
• Language Objectives:  This is the first lesson on telling the time in basic form using 'o'clock' and 'half past'. The lesson does not focus on 'quarter to' and 'quarter past'.

This lesson uses the future form 'will' and 'going to' to predict a future outcome.

• Dialogue Story:  Dad is ready for work. He is surprised to find that the children are not ready. Mom goes to check and to her surprise, Freddie and Lisa are still sleeping way past waking time. She urges them to hurry and leave for school. It is clear they are going to be late for lessons.
• Sentence Structures:
  • It's 7:00 a.m. You are going to be late for school.
  • What time do lessons usually begin at school?
  • It's 8 o'clock already.

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• Topic: Sickness & Health Problems Lesson
• Communication Objectives: This lesson will teach students how to talk about health problems and feelings of sickness. They will learn to give advice and suggestions.
• Language Objectives:  This lesson focuses on using the modal verb 'should' to give health related advice. It also teaches them how to talk about illness.



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• Dialogue Story:  Dad has just left for work. After her leaves, Freddie comes down to the living room with a worried look on his face. It's Lisa! She is not feeling well. Mom rushes back into the room to find Lisa, lying in bed with a high fever. Mom takes her temperature and tries a natural method of bringing down the fever.
• Sentence Structures:
  • What's the matter?
  • I feel hot, Mom.
  • You have a fever.
  • Let me take your temperature.
  • You should stay in bed.
  • You shouldn't watch TV.

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