4.2.2.2.4. Time words

Time words are words like today, this morning, tonight, tomorrow, and so forth. There may also be names for days of the week, for months, for seasons of the year, etc., and there may be words for telling time.

Techniques: Time words can be combined with TPR commands. For example, you may make a paper clock with moveable hands. The LRP can tell you “Go to sleep at 7:00” and then gradually move the hands to 7:00 (at which point you mime going to sleep). Later she can ask “What did you do at 7:00?” and you can respond by going to sleep. Similarly she can say, “Buy a banana on Tuesday,” and then begin pointing one by one at a sequence of days on the calendar until she arrives at Tuesday, and you respond at that point by picking up a banana. If different foods are used at different times of the day, she can say something like “We eat it in the morning,” etc. You respond, for example by picking up the item.