Interactive scene
School objects: an interactive classroom
Tap anything in the classroom to hear its English name and watch it come alive. Then pack the schoolbag, find what you hear and count the pencils.
- Age
- Ages 3–7
- Level
- Pre-A1
- Topic
- School & basics
- Skill
- Vocabulary · Listening · Speaking
- Format
- Interactive
- Vocabulary
- Listening
- Speaking
- Explore · Pack the schoolbag · Listen & find · Count & say · Sing along
Tap anything in the room to hear its name.
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Teacher's guide
How to run the scene in a lesson, the language it practises and what to do next.
In an online lesson
- Share your screen and start in Explore. Point with your cursor and ask “What's this?” before you tap; the child answers, the classroom confirms.
- In Pack the schoolbag, let the child give the instruction: they say “Put the ruler in the bag”, you drag. Swap roles every few items.
- In Listen & find, turn the labels off so the child listens instead of reading. Ask them to say the word back before you tap.
- In Sing along, play the chant once while the child watches each thing light up, then turn on Repeat after me: the voice sings a line and the child sings it back in the pause, pointing at the thing on screen.
In the classroom
- On an interactive whiteboard, use the full-screen button and invite children up one at a time. Every object is big enough to tap with a finger.
- Play Pack the schoolbag with a real bag at the same time: the child at the board packs the picture, the class packs real objects from their desks.
- For Count & say, have the class count aloud together before anyone taps a number, then everyone repeats the model sentence.
- Sing it as a class: you take the Teacher lines, the class answers the Class lines and holds up a real book, pencil or ruler when its word comes. Start on Slow; switch to Normal once they know it.
Target language
The scene models these structures out loud. Say them with the children.
- What's this? It's a pencil.
- They're scissors.
- Put the ruler in the bag.
- Find the clock.
- How many pencils? There are three pencils.
Words in the scene
- clock
- globe
- paint
- computer
- book
- notebook
- ruler
- scissors
- pen
- pencil
- crayon
Follow-up printables
Close the lesson with the printable school flashcards for a matching game, or the topic's word page for a quick review at home.
Keep singing
The scene's chant to sing without the screen, and more for the same topic.
What's in My Classroom?
- Teacher: What's in my classroom? Look and see!
- Class: A book, a pen, a ruler for me!
- Teacher: Pencil, crayon, draw, draw, draw!
- Class: Scissors cut, and paint some more!
- Teacher: Tick, tock, look at the clock!
- Class: Spin the globe, and round we go!
- Teacher: Open my notebook, write my name!
- Class: Tap the computer, play a game!
- Teacher: Pen and ruler, crayon and paint!
- Class: Scissors, notebook, globe, and computer too!
- Teacher: What's in my classroom? Look and see!
- All: A book, a pencil, a clock, and me!
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