LLFE-A04 · My Working Day — Present Simple for Routines
⏰ My Working Day
⏱ 5 minutes · 📚 CELTA-informed · 🎯 Cambridge A2
📖 From the teacher’s desk: My working days in hospitality were never the same — but my routine was! I always arrived at The Ivy an hour early to set up the bar, brief the team, and taste the specials. Now teaching and parenting in La Réunion, I still live by routines: drop my son at crèche, prep lessons, teach, pick him up. The present simple is the grammar of real daily life.
🎯 By the end of this lesson, you can: describe a daily work routine using the present simple correctly.
🔥 Warm Up (1 min)
What’s the first thing you do every morning? Tell someone — or write it here: “Every morning, I _______ at _______ o’clock.”
📖 Learn It (2 min)
Present Simple = habitual actions & routines
| ✅ Positive | ❌ Negative | ❓ Question |
|---|---|---|
| I start at 8am. | I don’t start early. | Do you start early? |
| She works in a café. | She doesn’t work at night. | Does she work nights? |
Example routine: “I usually wake up at 6am. I have coffee and check my messages. I start work at 8:30. At lunchtime, I eat at my desk. I finish at 5pm and pick up my son from school.”
✏️ Try It (2 min)
Correct the errors:
- She don’t work on Sundays. → _______
- He start at nine every day. → _______
- Do she finish at 5pm? → _______
Write it: Describe YOUR daily routine in 5 sentences. Use 3 different time expressions.
🗝️ Answer Key
- She doesn’t work on Sundays.
- He starts at nine every day.
- Does she finish at 5pm?
Cambridge CELTA course completed — 120 supervised teaching hours, 4 written assignments passed at the required standard.
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