Topic: Days of the Week
Mode: Interpretive
Level: Novice
Students will listen to audios and write down each day of the week that they hear.
Components of the activity: Scripts, answer key.
Instructions to the teacher
In advance, make a recording of the following scripts. Alternatively, read them aloud to the class at a relatively normal speaking speed. When you put the sentences into your own language, try to vary the placement of the day of the week within the sentence to give students practice hearing this feature in different ways.
Scripts
- On Monday, I have math class.
- The concert is this Friday.
- Fatima can meet you next Saturday.
- Tuesday is my busiest day.
- Most Sundays he plays soccer
- We leave for vacation on Thursday.
- Wednesday is my birthday.
Instructions to students
Listen to the sentence and write the day of the week that you hear. You do not have to completely understand the sentence!
Answer Key
- Monday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Tuesday
- Sunday
- Thursday
- Wednesday