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CIRCLE TIME ENCOUNTER 5: GAME – Help the teacher!
MATERIALS: Flashcards or realia
STEPS:
 Announce the game, e.g. Let’s play help the teacher!
 Hold the visuals so you can’t see them, but the children can, e.g. flashcards facing
the children.
 Ask about each visual one at a time, e.g. Is it sunny?
 Have the children say Yes! or No!
 Keep asking until you discover what the visual is.

This can also be called ‘Help the puppet!’ and it is the puppet who can’t see the visuals.

Extension: As children get confident:
 You can ask a child to guess the visual and the class to help them, so the game
becomes, ‘Help Farah!’ or ‘Help Amir!’ If the guessing child can’t say the word, help
them do the mime, then say the word for them or ask the class to help them say the
word (no longer an encounter game).

Progression notes: Observe which children are becoming confident and immediately recognise the
target language.

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