Routines

1. Discuss briefly activities we do as part of our daily routine; and ask for examples of things people do regularly once a week, once a month, once a year. Ex.: I visit my grandmother once a month. I take my vitamin pill once a day.
2. Then give the students five minutes to write down as many things as they can think of that they do: 1. Every day; 2. About once a month; 3. About once a year
3. In groups, they read out their lists to one another, and delete anything they have written down which someone else has as well. So that at the end, each student has only his or her 'special' routines, that no one else has. Later, a representative from each group describes these 'special' routines in the third person: Justine goes to ballet class every day. Paul doesn't eat anything for one day every month.