TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Daily Routines Board Game

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary and In this daily routines board game, students practice vocabulary
Speaking Game: gap-fill, related to daily routines and talk in response to topic-related
impromptu speech, freer prompts.
practice (group work)
Procedure
Divide the students into groups of three or four.
Focus
Daily routines Give each group a copy of the game board, a set of cards, a dice,
and counters.

Aim Ask the students to shuffle the cards and place them face-down
in a pile on the table.
To practice vocabulary
related to daily routines
Players begin by placing their counters on the start square.
and talk in response to
topic-related prompts.
Players then take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter
along the board.
Preparation
When a player lands on a square, another student picks up a card
Make one copy of the and reads out the sentence using the word 'blank' for the daily
game board and cards routine word in bold, e.g. 'I BLANK at 6:00 a.m. and turn off my
for each group of three alarm clock.'
or four. Cut the cards as
indicated. The player listens to the sentence, chooses a daily routine word
from the game board, and says it aloud to complete the sentence,
You will also need a dice e.g. wake up.
and counters for each
group. If the player says the correct word shown on the card in bold,
they stay on the square.
Level If not, they move their counter back two squares.
Elementary (A1-A2)
The card is then placed at the bottom of the pile.

Time The game board contains extra words to make the game more
challenging.
25 minutes
If a player lands on a 'Talk about' square, they talk for 20 seconds
in response to a prompt to remain on the square.

If a player can't think of anything to say or stops talking before

the 20 seconds are up, they go back two squares.

The first player to reach the finish wins the game.

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Daily Routines Board Game

Talk about Talk

what you Go about the
do every forward transport
day to one space you use
relax. every day.

Talk about
Go back your
two routine
spaces at the
weekend.

Talk about
what you
do before
you go to
bed.

Talk about
wake up breakfast bus the first
thing you
start dinner shop do in the
change make read morning.

Talk about shower walk eat

what you
usually gym call clean
have for
breakfast. wash feed bed

listen get dressed brush

Go
forward drive homework work Go back
two one space
TV study home
spaces

Talk about
what time
you wake
up and go
to sleep.

Talk about Talk about

what time the best
you start part of
and finish your daily
school. routine.

Talk
about the
housework Finish Start
you do
every day.

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Daily Routines Board Game

I wake up at 6:00 a.m. Maria has a shower every After I choose my

and turn off my alarm morning, but she doesn't clothes for the day, I get
clock. always wash her hair. dressed.

My family and I eat Before they leave for

Most people brush their
breakfast at 8:00 a.m. work, they walk their dog
teeth twice a day.
We usually have toast. around the park.

Paula usually takes Around 7:00 p.m., Mario I drive to work every
the bus to work, but cooks dinner. It's his morning. It is faster than
sometimes she walks. favourite meal. taking the bus.

Many students study Most afternoons, Charlie Mark helps his children do
English every day at goes to the gym to their homework in the
school. exercise. evenings.

At 12:30 p.m., I stop work When we finish cooking, Many people work from
and eat lunch. we clean the kitchen. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

When I arrive home, I Before bed, I wash my Carla likes to watch TV in

usually change my clothes. face and brush my teeth. the evenings.

It's important to make the We feed our dog twice a When I finish work, I go
bed every morning. day. He is always hungry. home to relax.

I like to read the news When the children are At 9:00 a.m., I enter the
while I'm on the bus. tired, they go to bed. office and start work.

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