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Materials for the lesson

1. Ropes
   2. Numbers from 1 to 12 written on square pieces of cartoon on both sides.
   3. 1 smaller stick about 50 cm and 1 bigger stick about 1 m.
   4. Paper sticky tape

Layout of the classroom

The classroom should be empty. All desks and chairs are put aside.

Phase 1

The teacher explains the rule of the Clock game. Big circle will be drown on the floor with ropes. 12 pupils will impersonate numbers of hours inside the clock and 2 – small and long hand of the clock. The rest of the pupils will be around the clock. The teacher will put questions to every pupil around the clock like ‘’What time do we start the school?’’ The pupil should answer: 8. Then the 2 pupils who impersonate clock’s hands should point to numbers of hours – small one should point to number 8, big one should point number 12. The pupils who impersonate the clock’s hands should change every question.

Questions are divided in 2 groups. What do we do in the morning and till noon, and what do we do in the afternoon and evening.

The pupils help putting aside desks and chairs to free the middle of the room. The teachers makes a big circle with the ropes and marks on the floor with a sticky tape places of the 12 hours inside the clock and the centre of it.

Phase 2

Questions: What do we do in the morning and till noon?

The teacher chooses 12 pupils and gives them numbers from 1 to 12. Randomly he asks each of them one after each other about their place in the clock and to crouch with the number in their hand to be visible for everybody. When the 12 clocks are in their places inside, the teachers points 2 pupils from outside to be small and long hand of the clock, gives them small and long stick and asks them to go in the middle, standing back to back.

Teacher ask one pupil from outside: At what time do we start the school.  Pupil should answer: At 8. Then the pupils who impersonate the clock hands should point with their sticks the hour of 8 – small one to 8, long one – to 12.

Then the hand of the clock change, other couple of pupils take their places. And so on.

Possible questions:

–       At what time do I wake up?

–       At what time my mom starts work?

–       At what time my dad starts work?

–       At what time my brother/sister goes to kindergarten?

–       At what time is our school break?

And so on. Every teacher can made up the questions. Questions could also be vice virsae like:  What do I do at 2 o’clock at night?

Phase 3

Questions: What do we do in the afternoon and the evening?

Another 12 pupils take places of the numbers of hours inside the clock.  And the game continues with questions related to afternoon and evening like:

–       At what time do we have lunch at school?

–       At what time do we finish the school?

–       At what time my dad comes back home from work?

–       At what time do we have dinner at home?

–       At what time do I go to bed?

And so on. The pupils impersonating clock’s hands change after every question.

The teacher also explains here that 3 in the afternoon is 15 h, 8 in the evening is 20 h etc.

Phase 4

The teacher explains that there are different type of clocks – mechanical, electronic etc.

Pupils help the teacher to put the classroom back to the normal order.