When I Grow Up
To make this game easier just stick to things your child will do when they grow upand things he or she will never do.
To make this game harder make up your own suggestions for what they might do or not do in the future.
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This game is to help your child understandand use ‘will’ to talk about things that aregoing to happen, e.g. ‘Next year I learn to will play the piano’.
To play this game you will need to use the ‘ ’ cards attached.I will
Cut out the cards and show them to your child, making sure they know what each cardsays. Give your child one of the time boards attached. Place the cards in a pile face down in front of you. Encourage your child to take a card and decide if it’s something they will do tomorrow, next year or when he or she grows up or never!
e.g. ‘Next year I play tennis’.will ‘I learn to drive when I grow up’.will
Place each card on the time board until all the pictures are used up.
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learn to drivefinish myhomework
wash my own clothes
have a bathbuy a computer
win a race on sports day
watch TV brush my teeth ride my bike
learn to speakanother language buy a house scuba dive
open a bank account eat broccoli tidy my bedroom
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