Tonight Today Yesterday

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1 The week before last The day before yesterday The day after tomorrow Two months Tomorrow Tonight Today Yesterday The other day A few days ago A couple of weeks ago A year and a half ago One week from Tuesday Two years Last In January Time Cards (Set 1) - Lesson Collection Set #3

2 In the evening On May 14th On Saturday morning afternoon evening coming Sunday Next Next month Three or four days ago Thursday night Every other Thursday About five years ago A couple of months ago Every Saturday Time Cards (Set 2) - Lesson Collection Set #3

3 When I was nine or ten years old When I was a high school student When I was in elementary school When I was in junior high school When I was years old When I was a senior in high school For three days last October In my elementary school days In a little while A couple of years A few hours On my last birthday next week next month last summer Two weeks ago Friday Time Cards (Set 3) - Lesson Collection Set #3

4 After school today Around the middle of last month At six o clock this evening Before my 50th birthday Before the end of this month During my last vacation During the Every fourth Friday between this week and next Soon after I woke up this morning The other day around midnight The third Monday of every month morning before class Three years Two months Yesterday afternoon Time Cards (Set 4) - Lesson Collection Set #3

5 Time Cards Are you a good tennis player? Etc. Teachers Instructions (1/2) When there are no more follow-up questions, a second student draws and reads from one of the Time Cards, completes a sentence and the others ask follow-up questions. The lesson continues in this fashion until all of the Time Cards have been used. 1. Student ability: High Beginner ~ Intermediate 2. Approximate length of lesson: Varies 3. Number of students necessary: Preferred age/maturity: JHS ~ Adult 5. Type of lesson: Small Group Activity * * * * * Language Target: Working with expressions of time, building fluency (and incorporating verb tenses). Setting Up: Cut the worksheets into cards, and prepare one set of cards for each group of four or five students. In class, each group receives one deck of Time Cards. Getting Started: The cards are placed in a pile face down on the table. One student draws a card and reads it to the others. For example: The day before yesterday. The student needs to finish the sentence, e.g. I played tennis. The other members of the group then ask follow-up questions about that sentence, for example: Who did you play tennis with? Who won? Where did you play? How often do you play tennis? Variation 1: One student draws a Time Card and places it face up on the desk so that everyone can see. The other students in the group ask an appropriate question (correct tense). For example, a student draws the Time Card: A few days ago. One student may ask: What did you have for lunch a few days ago? Another may ask: Did you do or see anything interesting a few days ago? Some of the cards require future tense questions. For example: A few hours. One student may ask: Where are you going to be a few hours from now? Another student may ask: Will you be at your part-time job a few hours? Variation 2: Each student draws two Time Cards and ties them together with a conjunction such as but, however, and, moreover, etc. For example, one card may be: A few days ago and another coming Sunday. The student composes a sentence such as: A few days ago I met my friend at the Time Cards [Lesson Collection Set #3 Lesson 03]

6 α Teachers Instructions (2/2) mall and this coming Sunday we are going to watch a movie. Variation 3: On slips of paper, students write five nouns one per slip. They are shuffled and placed face down on the table. These nouns can serve as the subject or object of a sentence. Students now draw one (or two?) Noun card and one Time card. They follow the instructions as given in the main activity or in Variation 2 above. Variation 4: Practicing transitions. One student reads a Time Card and completes the sentence. Then the next student tries to continue the conversation reading from another Time Card, but this needs to be done so that the two sentences flow together smoothly. For example: Student 1: Soon after I woke up... I washed my face and check my . Student 2: I usually do that, too, but when I was 8 years old, I didn t have a smart phone. Student 3: I didn t either when I was young, but not long after I entered high school, I started to send and receive e- mails everyday. Student 4: Usually, I check my s on Facebook but every other Thursday I m too busy so I can t. Similar Lessons: Verb Cards (mixed tenses) (Lesson Collection Set #4 - Lesson 13c). Mood and Feeling Cards (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 04d). Contributed by Kurt Scheibner Time Cards [Lesson Collection Set #3 Lesson 03]