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 | Ă©tudier |
to have lunch | déjeuner |
to come home | rentrer Ă 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 | Ă©couter 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. đź•’ 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.
đź’¬ Tips:
Start with “I wake up at...”
Include morning, school, evening
Use connectors like then, after that, finally
đź“ť 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.