Learning Time with Timmy at Linkou

Your child will learn English naturally through play and Timmy's stories

Introducing English to your child at four years old allows them to learn the language naturally. The British Council's early years teaching specialists designed Learning Time with Timmy to be fun and engaging for your child. Our approach also nurtures your child's creativity, critical thinking, and social skills as they learn English.  

They also develop more confidence, better communication skills and good pronunciation.

We have partnered with Aardman animation studios because the stories of their world-famous character Timmy, star of Timmy Time, help your child learn new words in context. Timmy and his friends will capture your child’s imagination and make learning enjoyable. This approach helps your child remember what they learn and builds a strong foundation in English.

What will your child learn?

Each lesson is based around topics that are familiar to early years learners as they start to explore the world around them. In our new pilot course, we will be looking at the topic of playtime with Timmy and his Friends. This will be split across the ideas of:

  • Let’s Play Ball. Where learners explore the ideas of playing and sports. Focusing in on actions such as: play, kick, run, jump.
  • Let’s Do Magic. Where learners think about the idea of magic tricks and performing. Focusing on emotions such as: happy, sad, excited.

Over both themes learners will explore the ideas of things they like and don’t like and being able to express their ideas in English.

Course overview

  • Duration: 17 May - 5 July 2025 (8 weeks)
  • Age: 4-5 years old

Location

  • Course is available at British Council Linkou centre

Your child will learn to:

  • show interest and participate with increasing confidence in storytelling activities, songs, games and other activities.
  • follow a simple storyline using visual and some language cues, and reproduces target vocabulary.
  • show awareness of class routines and responds appropriately to prompts to signal different stages of the lesson.
  • listen to a song, join in and performs actions. Demonstrates understanding by performing the actions to the song, and reproduces parts of the song from memory.
  • show understanding of and reproduces familiar target vocabulary (e.g. names of animals) orally.
  • show increasing comprehension of classroom language and can respond appropriately most of the time. Mimes certain actions and words to demonstrate understanding.
  • be able to follow some instructions independently to complete activities and play games.
  • respond to familiar questions in context orally and using body language.
  • experiment with different materials and identifies the names of some of them. Shows increasing control over tools.
  • use play and enjoyment to learn, demonstrate understanding, and build confidence.

A safe, supportive place to learn

We are trusted by parents all over the world. Not only are we trusted for our expertise in teaching English to children, but alsond for our high levels of child protection and safeguarding. We’ve put in place robust measures to make sure your child is safe during class, and that their personal data is protected. 

Our consultants will be happy to talk about enrolment on our new pilot scheme. Prices depend on the specific timetable and semesters you choose.
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