BEGINNING ESL LESSON

Wall clocks hang on the wall.

Some are electric and others need batteries.

This is an alarm clock. Alarm clocks ring.

This is a clock radio. A clock radio tells time and plays music.

This is a cuckoo clock. A little bird pops out and sings at the top of the hour.

This is a grandfather clock. Grandfather clocks have a pendulum and they chime.

Public clocks are on buildings. This clock is on a diner.

This is a wristwatch. Wristwatches are worn on the wrist.

This is a stopwatch. Some men keep a stopwatch in their pocket.

This is an hourglass. Sand drops through the hourglass.

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Lesson Tips: Teaching students how to name the items in the classroom is a great lesson for the first week of school. It helps beginning ESL students feel comfortable at their new school. A fun lesson activity is for the teacher to point to items in the classroom and have students identify them verbally. Groups can also create labels and tape them to the classroom items.Teaching Tip: What rooms in the house do most people have a clock hanging on the wall? Kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom? How many clocks are in your house? Review parts of a clock, including face, hands, hour hand, minute hand, second hand, etc.Teaching Tip: Survey the class with a show of hands to find out how many of them use an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Ask who wakes up without an alarm clock.Teaching Tip: Bring your clock radio to class and show the class how you set it. Describe your actions as you demonstrate them.Teaching Tip: Mimic the sound a cuckoo clock makes.Teaching Tip: Remind students that grandfather clocks should be secured to the wall so they dont fall during earthquakes.Teaching Tip: Ask the class where some public clocks are in their community. A lot of banks and civics centers have public clocks or clock towers.Teaching Tip: Ask what time is shown on the watch. Have students raise their wrists and show their wrist watches. Review the parts of the watch. Example: band, buckle, stem.Teaching Tip: Ask who has a stopwatch. Explain how to measure time with a stopwatch by activating and deactivating it with the stems. (Note: My father used a stop watch because he was a house painter and paint got on his wristwatch.)Teaching Tip: Bring in an hourglass to school and test how accurate it is.More free ESL lessons are available at www.elcivics.com. Thanks and happy teaching from Christina Niven.