Tick Tock

a flashcard game for kids learning English

Game instructions

what you need

To play this game, you will need a set of flashcards. You can use this activity to teach vocabulary on a variety of topics.
Depending on your needs, make your own flashcards or scroll down for our printables.
Our printables are in pdf format. To download them, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

more game ideas

Flashcards are great resources to play different learning games, such as matching, memory, drilling, guessing or indication activities. If you follow this link - Flashcard fun! - you will find lots of ideas and suggestions for using our cards in class or at home.

how to play

This flashcard game idea can be adapted to any language concept (in this case, to our Asking and Telling the Time topic). The instructions below are just a starting point to inspire you.

Students select five cards, then put them in a line face up in any order.
Read the time aloud. If this card is on either end of their line, they can flip it over.
If it is somewhere in the middle of the line, they cannot turn it over.
The first person to have turned over all of their cards is the winner.