What time is it, Mr. Wolf?

  

•           Name of activity à What time is it, Mr. Wolf?
•       Age of children and level à Year 5 (10 years old)
•    Skills of English they’re going to practice à  listening, speaking or use of English.

  

à  Short description of the activity and how you’re going to carry it out in class:

What's the time Mr Wolf is a classic kids party game for children of all ages to enjoy. You can play along and make this kids activity the highlight of the lesson.

One child is chosen to be Mr Wolf, who then stands at one end of the playing area. The other players stand in a line at the other end. Mr Wolf turns his back to start playing. The players call out, "What's the time Mr Wolf?" and Mr Wolf turns and answers with a time (i.e. 3 o'clock). He then turns his back again while the children advance again chanting "What's the time Mr Wolf?" To which Mr Wolf will continue to respond until the players come very close.

Once the line of players is close to Mr Wolf, he can respond to the chant with "It's dinner time!" at which point, he will chase the players back to the starting line with the aim to catch one of the them, who will then become Mr Wolf for the next round of the game.

à How should we carry out the activity?

Personally, I have done this activity at the end of the unit to check if the know the time and it works.

The first thing that we should do it is work first the use of English and when you are sure that the majority of them are right, we can play this game mentioned before.

After this, all we should do is check the use of English (show different clocks and they have to say “What time is it?” and explain the game through slides (Power Point) and then watch all together a real video showing them how other kids played the same game on other occasions.

Finally, you have to find a proper and huge place (i.e. playground) because they have to run, jump and practice English at the same time. If the teacher organisation is good, they love this activity/game.

Example of a real situation

     

Fill the gaps

•       The aim of this activity is  check the vocabulary seen in the previous lessons and improve their listening skills in a different way, playing a song.

•       At the beggining of the class, we will explain how is going to work the activity and what is the main aim of it.

•       We have to remember that we are going to check all together the vocabulary words worked in the unit and all the steps that they have to follow to complete the “Fill the gaps” properly.

•       After this, we will say the title of the song and we will play just once that song to familiarise it.

•       Once they finished, we will play the song twice. They have to learn that the first time that they listen something, they have to pay extremely attention and just focus on the lyrics and the rest of times, the have to fill the gaps or complete the activity that the teacher says.

•       When the song stop the last time, they are going to check it the content in two different ways, first individually and then with the classmate next to him or her.

•       Just in case they have some doubts, we will write on the board the correct anwers and as teachers we have to try that everyone has to participate in the 45 minutes class.

•       If we have some spare time and our/their aim is done and this behaviour has been the proper one, we can song the song all together.

Example of one of the pieces of paper that we will give to the student

*Link to go through to the song -    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8