Children meet Tıkır, who takes every word literally, notice that some expressions mean something different from their words, learn to spot idioms in everyday talk and play with words to invent a tongue twister of their own.
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Free sampleChildren meet Tıkır, who takes every word literally, notice that some expressions mean something different from their words, learn to spot idioms in everyday talk and play with words to invent a tongue twister of their own.
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In Hikmet Dede's repair shop, everything had a sound: the radios crackled, the teapot bubbled and the big clock on the wall went tick-tock. Tıkır loved the clock's sound best of all. One morning, the clock went quiet.
"Dede, the clock's stopped!" called Ela. But Hikmet Dede had gone to the market that day. Tıkır's lamp eyes lit up. "Then we'll look at it ourselves."
Let’s talk as a family: “How did Ela and Tıkır find out why the clock had stopped? Which guesses were wrong? 2) What do you do when something at home doesn't work?”
Children meet Tıkır, who takes every word literally, notice that some expressions mean something different from their words, learn to spot idioms in everyday talk and play with words to invent a tongue twister of their own.
In the colouring pages, children colour Tıkır's idiom notebook and the moment he recites his tongue twister, and can draw the literal meaning of an idiom themselves. In seek-and-find, they search the shop at tea time and at night.
1) What did Tıkır think "on pins and needles" meant? What does it really mean? 2) Do you know an idiom? What would happen if we took it literally? Together: Pick an idiom as a family ("grinning from ear to ear", "all fingers and thumbs") and let your child draw it literally. Then say a tongue twister together and see who can say it fastest and slowest.
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