Written by Liz Openshaw
To all you volunteers/future volunteers out there, teaching English abroad… How many uses can you find for a clock in the classroom? First of all, making a clock is a learning exercise in itself. Why not challenge your students to bring along the necessary materials? Will it be drawn on paper or one of our handheld whiteboards? Made out of wood? Discuss with them what they will need, and let them make suggestions so that the clock is ‘theirs’ from the start. You could also write up any unfamiliar words for future practice.
Once you have made the clock it can be used for counting, talking about seconds, minutes, hours, days, calendars, fractions (quarter of an hour, a quarter of 60 minutes, etc), timetables, journey times, daily routine, games (What’s the time, Mr Wolf?), all the vocabulary that goes with these activities, and so on…. I’m sure I’ve left out plenty of themes – any suggestions?
Image courtesy of sattva / FreeDigitalPhotos.net"
Once you have made the clock it can be used for counting, talking about seconds, minutes, hours, days, calendars, fractions (quarter of an hour, a quarter of 60 minutes, etc), timetables, journey times, daily routine, games (What’s the time, Mr Wolf?), all the vocabulary that goes with these activities, and so on…. I’m sure I’ve left out plenty of themes – any suggestions?
Image courtesy of sattva / FreeDigitalPhotos.net"