ELD-Community Parks & Buildings 2

Objective: Students will be able to understand standard phrases to determine a specific location’s opening and closing time.

Signal Word: supermarket

Identify some items you get at the supermarket

• Chinese food cucumbers• Hot Cheetos pickles• Cereal (Fruit Loops) hot chocolate• Coco Cola con carne• Tamales Nutella• Lettuce bacon• Oreo cookies churros• Rocky Road Ice Cream tacos• Spicy sausage milk

Grammatical Forms• Prepositions of time

• Identify the time prepositions in the following sentences:

1.We have soccer practice at 5:00 p.m.2.I don’t have to be at school until 7:50 a.m.3. They’ve been friends since second grade.4.The movie is about two hours long.

Grammatical forms

• We will be asking for directions to various places and will be using prepositions of time such as at, until, since, about.

Where are places we would need to know the times of operation?

• Lions Supermarket• Food Maxx• Costco• A school• Panda Express• Mi Pueblo• Valley Fair Mall• La Pulga• Pizza Jacks

Here are some common terms of time. Please write six of them.

• Example: sunset twilight• Pacific Standard Time new moon• Mountain Time dawn• Evening all day• Night all night• Morning all morning• Midnight• noon

Patterns for Prompts and ResponsesQuestions:①Do you know if the __________ (location) is open

on __________(day of the week)?

②What time does the ________ (location) open/close?

Response:A.It’s open/closed _________(preposition of time)

_________(fill in a term of time).

Sample Response

• It’s open at 10:00 p.m.

• It’s closed by sunset.