Telling the time

Recently, when teaching the time in French, I have discovered that a number of our youngest boys do not know how to tell the time on an analogue clock. They are aware of time but they are so used to seeing the time in a digital format that they have not learnt to read a normal clock. I would encourage all parents of young children to make sure that they have plenty of analogue clocks around at home and to draw children's attention to those clocks on regular occasions.