The date I always remember…

Kinga | Mar 20, 2026Mar 20, 2026

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• engage in talking about dates and milestones;
• practise prepositions for days and dates;
• watch a video clip about a secretary’s accidental scheduling spree.

In this lesson, students talk about months, years and dates. They review numbers for years (e.g. 2019 – twenty nineteen), mention important events and discuss personal milestones. Students work with ordinal numbers, watch a video excerpt (to 00:53) involving a secretary who schedules meetings and talk about time management. They read people’s comments on remembering birthdays and learn the rules for using the prepositions in and on for days and dates. Students also reflect on past events and imagine professional achievements.

WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY

This lesson focuses on talking about dates and starts with a warm-up. Students name a month for different points (e.g. a month that comes after March). They then identify the missing month in the task. Afterwards, students look at years given in numbers and complete the missing part of the numbers in words. Moving on, they match the years from the previous exercise with various events (e.g. the first film was made, World War I started). Next, students name one important event that happened in the year that isn’t used. Following that, they work in pairs. Students choose categories (e.g., the year you graduated) and write down the year the events occurred. After that, they take turns saying the years for their partner to guess the events. Then, students complete sentences with ordinal numbers (e.g. 1st, 50th, 9th). Subsequently, they write the numbers in words.

VIDEO AND PREPOSITIONS

In this part of the lesson, students watch part of a video where a secretary schedules 93 meetings for her boss. They guess why she did it. Then, students watch part of the video and check. Afterwards, they discuss time management. Moving on, students read comments on remembering dates and birthdays and identify which ones apply to them. Next, they use the prepositions in and on to complete the rules for using them for talking about dates. After that, students use the correct preposition to complete questions about past events. From there, they choose five questions and answer them. Finally, students imagine they are a different person in a specific scenario (e.g. an astronaut talking about their first day in space) and describe their experience.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete sentences with the correct preposition for talking about dates. They then replace some parts to make the information true for them. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.

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