Morning Routines Lesson Plan

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Lesson:
Morning Routines
General:
Time:
Objectives:
Structures:
Target Vocab:
40 mins - 1 hour
Saying morning routine verbs
"Its time to ..."
"I have to ..."
Good morning, wake up, get up, wash my face, brush my hair, get
dressed, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, put on my shoes, go to school.
You will need to download:

Flashcards:
wake up, get up, wash my face, brush my hair, get dressed, eat breakfast,
brush my teeth, put on my shoes, go to school.
Printables:
My Morning 1 worksheet
My Morning 2 worksheet
The Morning Routines Song song poster
Warm Up & Wrap Up lesson sheet
Readers:
Monster Mornings
Songs:
The Morning Routines Song
These can be downloaded at http://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html
You will also need:
colored crayons or pencils

CD / Tape player or something to play the song on
white / black board with marker / chalk
large blank paper to give students
Notes:
This lesson introduces lots of nice daily routine verbs used in the present simple tense.
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Lesson Overview:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
1. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
New Learning and Practice:

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Teach the morning routines verbs

Practice the morning routines verbs
Play "Flashcard touch" on the board
Do "Morning Routines" Drawings
Sing "The Morning Routines" song
Read classroom reader "Monster Mornings"
Do the "My Morning 1" worksheet
Play charades
Wrap Up:
1. Set Homework: "My Morning 2" worksheet
2. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
Lesson Procedure:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
New Learning and Practice:

1. Teach the morning routines verbs
Start with a guessing game. Before class print out the flashcards for morning routines. Start
with an easy one "brush my teeth" look at the card but dont show it to anyone. Do the
action for brushing your teeth and ask "What am I doing?". Its ok if the students answer in
their first language whoever answers first is the winner. Try and elicit the English or if not,
teach "brush my teeth". For the next card, the winner can look at the card and do the

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action. Again, elicit / teach the English. Continue until all the cards / actions have been
guessed.
2. Practice the morning routines verbs
Put the cards randomly on the board (stick on with blue-tak or tape) and draw a circle
around each card. Start by chorusing each card quickly (T: "wake up", Ss: "Wake up"). Go
through chorusing all the cards at least three times, getting quicker and quicker as you go.
Next, point to a card and say "Whats this?". Get everyone to say the card together. Point
to each card and get the class to shout out the verbs together as you touch each card.
Finally, remove one card from the board the circle it was in will still be there. Point to the
empty circle and again say "Whats this?" get everyone to shout out together the missing
card. Point to other cards and elicit them, slowly removing all the cards from the board
leaving just their circles. See if everyone can remember the words without any cards being
there!
3. Play "Flashcard touch" on the board
Put the cards back on the board, at a height that everyone can reach. Model the game first
select a student and say "Touch put on my shoes". The student should go to the board
and touch the correct card. Then get the student to do the same for you. When everyone
has got the idea put them in pairs and get each pair to stand at the other end of the room.
In pairs, each student says a verb phrase as their partner runs to the board and touches the
right card.
4. Do "Morning Routines" Drawings
Give out a large sheet of paper (e.g. A3) to each student and model the activity. Draw things
you do in the morning (e.g. brush your teeth, eat toast, watch TV) it doesnt have to be
just the activities from the flashcards / song, anything that you do is good. Then encourage
each student to draw what they do. As they are drawing, go around the class asking
questions (e.g. Whats this? Do you really eat chocolate for breakfast?, etc.). At the end,
get everyone to stick their sheet of paper on the classroom walls. Pair up students and get
them to try and guess what the pictures are.
5. Sing "The Morning Routines" song
Put the morning routine flashcards up on the board in the order of the song, or alternatively,
use our song poster. Get everyone to stand up and teach the actions and gestures for the
song (see Gestures and activities to use with "The Morning Routines Song" below). Then
play the song and get everyone to sing and do the actions along with you. Play twice so
everyone gets the hang of it.

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Lyrics for "The Morning Routines Song"
Gestures for "The Morning Routines Song"
Chorus:
Good morning! Good Morning!
Its time to wake up.
I have to get up.
As you sing the song, follow these actions:
Verse 1:
I wash my face (wash, wash, wash),
I brush my hair (brush, brush, brush),
I get dressed (dressed, dressed, dressed),
Theres such a lot to do!
Chorus:
Its time to wake up.
I have to get up.
Verse 2:
I eat my breakfast (eat, eat, eat),
I brush my teeth (brush, brush, brush),
I put on my shoes (put on, put on),
Theres such a lot to do!
Its time to go to school.
"Good morning! Good Morning!" stretch

your arms up (as if just waking up)
"Its time to wake up" point at imaginary
wrist watch for Its time to and open your
hands in front of your eyes for wake up (to
gesture opening your eyes)
"I have to get up" do an energetic star jump
on get up.
"I wash my face (wash, wash, wash)"
gesture washing your face
"I brush my hair (brush, brush, brush)"
gesture brushing your hair
"I get dressed (dressed, dressed, dressed)"
gesture getting dressed
"Theres such a lot to do!" gesture wiping
your forehead and looking tired out
"I eat my breakfast (eat, eat, eat)" gesture
eating breakfast
"I brush my teeth (brush, brush, brush)"
gesture brushing your teeth
"I put on my shoes (put on, put on)" gesture
putting on your shoes
"Its time to go to school." point at
imaginary wrist watch for "Its time to" and
wave goodbye for "go to school".
6. Read classroom reader "Monster Mornings"

This reader follows on perfectly from the song and helps to reinforce the new vocab with a
fun story. Before class, download and print off the reader "Monster Mornings" from our
website. As you go through each page, point to the different actions that each monster is
doing and elicit what they are, for example:
Teacher: (point at page 2) What color is this monster?
Students: Blue!
Teacher: Yes, that's right. What a funny color! And what does he do every morning?
Students: Wash face!
Teacher: Yes, well done! (reading from page 2) I wash my face. Do you wash your face
every morning (directing question to a student)?
Student: Yes!
etc.

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Continue through the story, eliciting the key vocab. Get the students really involved in the
story by asking lots of questions (e.g. about the colors on the monsters, asking yes/no
questions, counting arms and legs, etc.).
7. Do the "My Morning 1" worksheet
Give out the My Morning 1 worksheet to each student. Model the worksheet and then have
everyone work on the sentences. As everyone is working on their worksheets go around the
class and ask questions (e.g. What does that say? Do you take a shower in the morning?).
8. Play charades
To finish the class, get together the morning routines flashcards and also any other action
verb flashcards you have used in previous lessons. Divide the class into 2 teams. One
student comes to the front of the class and acts out the flashcard you show to him/her. The
first person to shout out the correct answer wins a point for his/her team.
Wrap Up:
1. Assign Homework: "My Morning 2" worksheet.
2. Wrap up the lesson with some ideas from our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
All flashcards, worksheets, craft sheets, readers and songs used in this
lesson plan can be downloaded at eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lessonplans.html
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You will need to download:

You will also need:

colored crayons or pencils

ESL KidStuff Lesson Plan:

Copyright ESL KidStuff

www.eslkidstuff.com | Lesson Plans for ESL Kids Teachers

New Learning and Practice:

Teach the morning routines verbs

New Learning and Practice:

ESL KidStuff Lesson Plan:

Copyright ESL KidStuff

www.eslkidstuff.com | Lesson Plans for ESL Kids Teachers

ESL KidStuff Lesson Plan:

Copyright ESL KidStuff

www.eslkidstuff.com | Lesson Plans for ESL Kids Teachers

Lyrics for "The Morning Routines Song"

Gestures for "The Morning Routines Song"

As you sing the song, follow these actions:

Its time to go to school.

"Good morning! Good Morning!" stretch

6. Read classroom reader "Monster Mornings"

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