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Thai Telling Time

Sixth graders learn to tell time in Thai — ask kii mong laew? (กี่โมงแล้ว, what time is it?), and learn thiang (เที่ยง, noon) and thiang khuen (เที่ยงคืน, midnight, literally “noon of the night”). Mong (โมง) means “o’clock.”

Grade 6Telling Time50 minutes1 class periodACTFL / World LanguagesExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Ask the time.
  • ✓Learn noon & midnight.
  • ✓Read a clock.
  • ✓Say your schedule.
Essential Question

Kii mong laew? How do you ask and tell the time in Thai?

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Interactive Task
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The Lesson · Language Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

50 minutes, five moves

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1

Warm-Up — What Time Is It?

6 min

How do you ask and tell time in Thai?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Point to a clock.
  • Ask “kii mong laew?”
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Wonder.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Telling Time

12 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Thai Time Check.
  • Note thiang & thiang khuen.
  • Note mong = o’clock.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Answer.
  • Note it.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask the time.
  • Say noon & midnight.
  • Read a clock.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Ask.
  • Say.
  • Read.
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Speak — Speak

13 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say when school starts.
  • Ask “kii mong laew?”
  • Ask a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Ask.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask the time.
  • Say noon in Thai.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Ask it.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

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Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Novice-High).

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: ask & tell time.

ACTFL
Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand times.

ACTFL
Connections 3.1

Connect to math / clocks.

ACTFL
Communication 1.3

Presentational: state times.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Clock cards with times.
  • Frame: “___ mong.”
  • Use a demo clock.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with kii mong laew?
  • Use a clock model.
  • Repeat aloud.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add the Thai 6-hour time system.
  • Say a daily schedule.
  • Use a clock face.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🕒Clock cards
  • 💻Thai Time Check
  • 🕛Demo clock
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

wela (เวลา)timekii mong laew (กี่โมงแล้ว)what time is itmong (โมง)o’clockthiang (เที่ยง)noonthiang khuen (เที่ยงคืน)midnightnathi (นาที)minuteton chao (ตอนเช้า)mornington yen (ตอนเย็น)evening
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Exit Ticket

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QUESTION 1
How do you ask “What time is it?” in Thai?
kii mong laew?
QUESTION 2
What does “thiang” mean?
Noon.
QUESTION 3
What does “thiang khuen” mean?
Midnight.

Reflect: telling time.

Have students ask “kii mong laew?” and say a time in Thai. A printable Thai time sheet is in the World Languages library.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

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Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: kii mong laew (กี่โมงแล้ว), mong (โมง), nathi (นาที), thiang (เที่ยง), thiang khuen (เที่ยงคืน), ton chao (ตอนเช้า), ton yen (ตอนเย็น), wela (เวลา)
  1. time
  2. minute
  3. midnight
  4. noon
  5. evening
  6. morning
  7. what time is it
  8. o’clock

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. How do you ask “What time is it?” in Thai?
  2. What does “thiang” mean?
  3. What does “thiang khuen” mean?
Answer key — Part A: 1) wela (เวลา) · 2) nathi (นาที) · 3) thiang khuen (เที่ยงคืน) · 4) thiang (เที่ยง) · 5) ton yen (ตอนเย็น) · 6) ton chao (ตอนเช้า) · 7) kii mong laew (กี่โมงแล้ว) · 8) mong (โมง)
Part B: 1) kii mong laew? 2) Noon. 3) Midnight.