Daily Routine

🕒 Daily Routine Vocabulary – English ⇄ French

English	French
to wake up	se réveiller
to get up	se lever
to take a shower	prendre une douche
to brush one’s teeth	se brosser les dents
to get dressed	s’habiller
to have breakfast	prendre le petit-déjeuner
to go to school	aller à l’école
to go to work	aller au travail
to study	étudier
to have lunch	déjeuner
to come home	rentrer à la maison
to do homework	faire les devoirs
to rest / to relax	se reposer / se détendre
to watch TV	regarder la télé
to read a book	lire un livre
to play video games	jouer aux jeux vidéo
to listen to music	écouter de la musique
to have dinner	dîner
to take a bath	prendre un bain
to go to bed	aller au lit
to fall asleep	s’endormir
in the morning	le matin
in the afternoon	l’après-midi
in the evening	le soir
every day	tous les jours
sometimes	parfois
usually	d’habitude
never	jamais

🎲 Games & Activities

1. 🧩 Daily Routine Bingo

Materials: Bingo grids with routines (in English or French), one per student
How to play: Call out routines in one language (e.g. “se réveiller”), students cross off the English word (“wake up”).
First to get a line shouts “Bingo!”

2. 🕒 Daily Schedule Match

Materials: Time cards + activity cards
Task: Students match daily routine verbs to typical times (e.g., 7:00 → wake up / 7h00 → se réveiller).
Can be done as a race or in pairs.

3. 🎭 Charades

One student acts out a daily activity (e.g., brushing teeth), the others guess in English or French.
Great for kinesthetic learners and reviewing reflexive verbs.

4. 🔄 Memory / Matching Game

Create cards: One set in English, one set in French.
Students turn over two cards at a time trying to find pairs (e.g. “take a shower” ↔ “prendre une douche”).

5. ✍ My Daily Routine Poster

Students create a poster of their real or ideal daily routine with pictures and simple sentences.
Present in English or French.
Optional oral component: “Every day, I wake up at 7am. Then I…”

6. 🎙 Interview & Report

Students interview a partner with a prepared question sheet:
- “What time do you wake up?”
- “Do you watch TV every day?”
Then they introduce their partner to the class: “She gets up at 6am. She doesn’t watch TV during the week.”

7. ⏰ Ordering Game

Cut out strips with daily routine phrases.
In small groups, students put them in the correct order for a typical day.
Advanced option: rearrange the events for a weekend day or a celebrity’s day.

8. 🎨 Draw & Guess

Students draw a daily activity, others guess the verb or sentence.
Can be played as a team game with time limits.

✍ Scaffolded Writing Task: "My Daily Routine"

🎯 Objective

By the end of the task, students will write a short paragraph (5–8 sentences) describing their daily routine using time phrases, reflexive verbs, and simple present tense.

🧱 Level 1: Fill in the Gaps (Support + Sentence Frames)

Hello! My name is .
I wake up at ________.
Then I **** and get dressed.
I go to school at ________.
In the afternoon, I ________.
In the evening, I __________ and go to bed at __________.

🧱 Level 2: Reorder and Complete

Put the sentences in the right order, then add missing words (like times or verbs).

__________ I go to school at ______.
I __________ at 7:00.
I have dinner and __________ at 8:30.
Then I brush my teeth and __________.
I wake up and __________ at 7:15.

🧱 Level 3: Write Your Own Paragraph

Write a short paragraph (5–8 sentences) about your day. Use at least 4 verbs and 3 time phrases from the list we studied.

💬 Tips:

Start with “I wake up at...”
Include morning, school, evening
Use connectors like then, after that, finally

📝 Example (for inspiration):

I wake up at 7:00 in the morning. Then I get dressed and have breakfast. I go to school at 8:00 and finish at 4:30. After school, I do my homework and watch TV. I have dinner at 7:30 and go to bed at 9:30.