My Day Theme Cards

The My Day Theme Cards are a visual language resource designed to support students in learning, recognising and confidently using daily routine vocabulary and phrases in the target language.

Each card combines a clear image with the matching word or phrase in the target language, helping students link meaning directly to language. This visual–text pairing supports comprehension and recall, enabling students to talk about their daily activities, sequence events, and describe routines using the target language.

Designed for classroom teachers, specialist language teachers and homeschoolers, these Theme Cards function as an instructional tool that supports explicit teaching, guided practice, and active use of routine-related language.

How these Theme Cards support target language learning

• Provide visual and written input of daily routine language in the target language
• Support comprehension by linking images directly to meaning
• Reinforce language used to describe routines and daily activities
• Enable students to independently recognise and use routine-related vocabulary

Classroom use

• Introducing and reinforcing daily routine vocabulary
• Oral language activities describing a typical day
• Sequencing, matching, and ordering tasks
• Revision and consolidation of routine-related language

Pair with matching resources

These Theme Cards work alongside the My Day Vocabulary Chart, My Day Word Cards, Mix ’n’ Match Cards, and Bingo Games to support a progression from visual input → structured practice → active use of the target language.

Text: I wake up, I get dressed, I have breakfast, I go to school, I do my work, I have lunch, I go home, I do my homework, I have dinner, I have a bath, I watch T.V., I go to bed.