![]() ![]() ![]() There are kids and their interests, too and this is how pets, favourite toys or books make an appearance in our lessons, Frozen and Co. Where to look for inspiration for pre-primary activities? Coursebooks will be probably the first point of reference for many of us, but not the only one. If you are interested in the topic of language production in pre-schooler, make sure you check out the posts on pairwork in pre-school, using songs, activities based on developing cognitive skills and Colourful Semantics in EFL. Eventually, the clock becomes unnecessary and the kids are ready to produce longer stretches of discourse without it.The most basic animal clock can only include ‘big/small’ and ‘colours’ and more areas can be added to it as the kids progress through the unit or the course. It is ridiculously easy to adapt to different topics and levels of challenge.But, apart from working as ‘visual reminders’, they can also be used by kids to ask for teacher’s help, by pointing at the word they need to use, without having to resort to their L1. The icons offer the visual support for the students and they represent all the language that they should know.They have to make a full circle and they can only make a full circle when the language is produced. The clock hands never stop half-way through. Moving the hands around makes this taks a little bit more kinaesthetic and it helps to structure the whole discourse by sequencing it and by highlighting all the topics to mention.Kids take turns to make sentences about their secret animal for the group to guess.Teacher demonstrates: moving the hands around the clock and producing sentences about a secret animal, from 12 o’clock to 12 o’clock.It is a just a neater and a more VYL-friendly toy which was created to support the kids in producing the language. The tool itself is neither very complex or especially revolutionary. ![]()
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