Unit 17 of the SuperEnglishESL Beginner ESL Curriculum teaches students how to talk about their daily routines. Students learn to describe everyday activities such as waking up, brushing teeth, eating breakfast, starting school, eating lunch, doing homework, and going to bed.
Through structured ESL lesson plans and activities, learners practice asking and answering questions about time using expressions like “What time do you wake up?” and “When does she do her homework?”.
These beginner ESL lessons include vocabulary practice, phonics instruction, reading practice, speaking activities, printable worksheets, and classroom games designed for ESL teachers and young English learners.
Students learn to describe common daily activities including getting dressed, starting school, eating meals, and completing homework. They practice using sentences such as:
These structured speaking exercises help students build confidence using English to describe real-life routines.
Short rhymes and reading passages introduce daily routine language in a simple and memorable format. One example describes a typical morning routine:
Wake up, wake up, time for school,
Brush my teeth, oh so cool.
Go to the kitchen, it's time to eat,
Eat my breakfast, what a treat.
These readings help reinforce vocabulary while building beginner ESL reading fluency. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
The phonics focus in this unit reviews several consonant blends including PL, SL, DR, and TR. Students practice reading and identifying words such as plant, plum, slide, drum, train, and truck.
Teachers can combine these lessons with additional structured phonics practice on our ESL phonics lessons page.
Students practice speaking by answering questions about daily routines:
These activities help students practice telling time while using complete English sentences.
This unit is ideal for young ESL learners developing foundational speaking and vocabulary skills. Because daily routines are familiar topics, students can easily connect the language they learn to their everyday lives.
Explore the rest of the beginner ESL curriculum for additional ESL lesson plans covering animals, weather, transportation, houses, jobs, and other everyday topics.