Clock Bingo is a game that combines luck and time-telling skills. Make a Bingo board with a free space in the middle and five rows of clock faces showing different times rounded to the nearest five minutes. Place different slips of paper with time values in a hat and call them out. Have the students mark their Bingo boards every time you call out a time they have. The first student with five markers in a row wins.
Flash cards can help at all stages of learning to tell time. For beginning students, make flash cards showing time at the beginning of the hour on one side with the time value shown in digital or written out in English on the other side. For more advanced students, use times rounded to the nearest five minutes. Finally, use time values to the exact minute. Have students quiz each other with the flash cards. As they get better, have them compete to see how many times they can correctly tell in one minute.
Place a cardboard clock with movable hands next to you. Tell the kids a story about what you did over the weekend or about a particular experience you had. For every event in the story, include a time. If they are just beginning, just use hours and half hours. For more advanced students, use multiples of five minutes or one minute. Finally, start to throw in phrases like "five past" and "a quarter to." Every time you say a time, call on a student to come up and adjust the clock to the time you've said in the story.
Time Concentration is an educational version of a classic memory game. Print 10 cards with different time values on an analog clock and 10 matching cards with the same time values on a digital clock. Turn the cards face down and place them randomly in a grid. Have two students play each game. One student turns over two cards. If they match, he gets a point and the cards stay face up. Otherwise, he turns them back over. The next student turns over two cards, looking for a match and play continues until all the cards are gone. The player with the most points wins.