Days, Dates and Time ESL Worksheets and Lessons
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Days, dates & time worksheets
106 printable worksheets with answer keys; the 24 most used, easiest level first.
Days, dates & time lessons
24 ready lessons for the four skills: teach on the board, set online or print.
Days, dates & time vocabulary
8 word decks with meanings, examples and pronunciation: flip, quiz, print as flashcards or play as a game.
Days, dates & time shadowing
Listen, repeat, record and compare: short scripts for pronunciation and fluency.
About Days, dates & time
Days, months, dates and clock times are fundamental survival language, and learners use them every time they make an arrangement, book something or talk about their week. They are also a frequent source of small but persistent errors.
Kids and A1 learners learn days of the week, months, ordinal numbers and o'clock, half past and quarter past/to, plus prepositions of time: at 3 o'clock, on Monday, in July. A2 learners say and write dates (the fourth of May, May 4), make arrangements with present continuous, and use past time expressions. From B1 upwards the focus moves to time expressions, time management and idioms such as run out of time, while C1 and C2 materials explore how different cultures think about time.
This page brings together printable worksheets, ready-to-teach lessons and flashcard decks on days, dates and time.
Teaching tips: Days, dates & time
- Use a large cardboard clock or an online clock so learners can set a time for a partner to say, and vice versa.
- Make an "at, on, in" wall chart (at + times, on + days and dates, in + months, years and seasons) and refer back to it all term.
- Teach both ways of saying the time ("half past seven" and "seven thirty") so learners understand natural speech.
- Have students fill in a diary and arrange a meeting with a partner, negotiating times with "Are you free on...?"
Questions teachers ask
How do you say dates in British English?
Written as May 4 or May 4 and usually said as "the fourth of May" or "May the fourth". American English writes May 4 and often says "May fourth", which is worth pointing out.
At what level should I teach telling the time?
O'clock and half past suit young learners and A1; quarter past/to and minutes past/to follow once numbers to 60 are secure.
Which prepositions of time are most important?
At, on and in cover the vast majority of cases at A1 and A2; add for, since, until and by at A2 and B1.