Interactive scene
Toys: an interactive toy room
Tap a toy to hear its English name: the ball bounces, the train chugs, the robot beeps. Then find what you hear and tidy everything into the toy box.
- Age
- Ages 3–7
- Level
- Pre-A1
- Topic
- Play & hobbies
- Skill
- Vocabulary · Listening · Speaking
- Format
- Interactive
- Vocabulary
- Listening
- Speaking
- Explore · Listen & find · Tidy up · 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 in Explore and let the child choose: “Which toy?” — they name it or point, you tap, everyone hears the word.
- In Listen & find, hide the labels. If the child is shy, ask them to say “It's a robot!” together with the voice when the toy plays.
- In Tidy up, the child tells you what to put away (“The car!”) and repeats the sentence: “The car is in the box.”
- In Sing along, sing the chant with the toys moving on screen, then use Repeat after me: the child sings each line back and does the action — bounce for the ball, fly for the kite, boom for the drum.
In the classroom
- On an interactive whiteboard, go full screen and give each child one toy to find and tidy away.
- Bring two or three real toys to class: after a toy is tidied on screen, a child puts the real one in a real box and says the sentence.
- Play it as a quiet-down routine at the end of a lesson: the room is tidy when every toy is in the box.
- Make it an action song: the class stands, you sing the Teacher lines and the children answer with the toy's action. Sing it again on Slow as the tidy-up song at the end of the lesson.
Target language
The scene models these structures out loud. Say them with the children.
- What's this? It's a robot.
- Find the teddy.
- The ball is in the box.
- The blocks are in the box.
Words in the scene
- kite
- balloon
- doll
- teddy
- ball
- drum
- car
- robot
- train
- blocks
Follow-up printables
Follow up with the printable toy flashcards, or the toys word page with pictures and sound for review at home.
Keep singing
The scene's chant to sing without the screen, and more for the same topic.
Toys, Toys, Let's Play!
- Teacher: Toys, toys, what can they do?
- Class: Let's play, me and you!
- Teacher: Bounce, bounce, the ball goes high!
- Class: Fly, fly, the kite in the sky!
- Teacher: Boom, boom, I play the drum!
- Class: Choo, choo, the train, here we come!
- Teacher: Beep, beep, the robot and the car!
- Class: The doll and the teddy, here they are!
- Teacher: Ball and kite, drum and train!
- Class: Robot, car, doll, teddy, play again!
- Teacher: Up go the blocks, up goes the balloon!
- All: Into the box! Tidy up the room!
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