Every Minute Counts - Audio Story Activity Page

Introduction

Adil has a full hour to get ready and walk to school. But he is late every day! Where is he losing time? His friend Paro decides to help him account for every minute of the hour.

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Themes: Routine and habits, Lifeskills, Friends and friendship

Suitable for: Higher Primary, Class 4, Class 5, Class 6, Class 7

Classroom Activities

TPR activities

1. Introduce the rhyme with action– early to bed, early to rise
2. Clapping at certain numbers

Pre-listening activities

1. Teacher shares their daily routine and ask students to share their daily routines
2. Ask students to go to the library in a specified time and come back. Once they do, discuss who were early and late and why
3. Prepare a reading time table
4. Ask students to write everything they know about their friends in 1 min
5. Introduce tongue twister – tick tock tick tock, ticking the clock, ticking and trickling. How many times this can be said in 1 min
6. Show pictures of Sunrise and Sunset and people working at these times and ask students to guess the time
7. Pictures of different times on the clock and activities done at those times; followed by discussion
8. Rhyme
9. Show pictures about good habits and asking questions
10. Show a particular time on the clock and discuss what students do at that time
11. Shuffle pictures of clocks with different times and ask students to arrange in sequential order. Sequencing and matching
12. Show picture of a child missing the school bus or a person missing the train and discuss.
13. Audio clipping on time management, punctuality and conduct listening quiz related to that
14. Give a punctuality challenge. Create a chart in class which will also be like a competition for children
15. Use a stop clock and make children listen to the ticking sound of seconds to build a sense of time. 60 seconds make a min; understanding concept of time
16. Memory game – How many they can remember in 1 min
17. Time diary – how much time does it take you to brush, bathe, eat, etc

During-listening activities

1. Prepare worksheets with pictures of Adil doing different things and children note down timings as they listen to the story. Punctuality and habits
2. Pause the story and ask why is Adil late. Ask students who are generally late to class about why they are running late
3. Worksheet with fill in the blanks (eg 1 min = __ sec), opposite words (early x late)
4. Divide students into groups according to the time they wake up. Ask them to write down their routine
5. Worksheet with questions. Adil wakes up at ___, takes ___ time to eat, etc.

Post-Listening activities

1. Students can come up and speak about their daily routine
2. Essay writing
3. Math – specify a time and ask students to draw what the clock looks like at that time
4. Matching timing and activity
5. Conversion of minutes to hours and seconds
6. Have children prepare a clock model
7. Poster making on routine
8. Have children maintain a diary
9. Pairing activity where they share their daily routines with each other
10. Make 12 children sit in a circle and one tall and short child inside the circle. Ask the 2 children to serve food to the 12 children. In the time the short child serves one, the tall child has served all
11. Audio puzzles
12. News report presentation
13. Dialogue practice, interview your friends
14. Make a survey of their friends, what times they do different activities
15. Listing action words,
16. Debate on punctuality vs good habits.
17. Vocabulary Bingo – words related to daily routine.