Game is a means to activate the lexical and grammatical material, development of skills and knowledge of all activities. Game develops creative, intellectual capacity of a student. It involves a decision: what to do, what to say, how to win.

There are 3 games that I want to share with you and to make your lessons move beneficial, captivating and effective. Feel free to modify, change and improve them according to your data.

 1. Couples Game

Equipment: blindfolds optional

Group: 2 groups

  The game involves giving various names of well-known duos to pairs of students. Students are separated into two groups and sent to opposite ends of the classroom or preset area. Students walk as the animal would while making its noise, hunting for the other same animal. The teacher gives each camper a kind of animals duo:e.g. cat, tiger, frog, monkey, dog, duck, dog will be on one end, and their campers on the other. Then, the campers are all blind folded or close their eyes and have to walk around making animal’s noise until they meet. Once they meet, they move to side and watch until the remaining couples are all matched. (Important Note: Be sure that the area is free from obstacles and dangers before starting the game)

2. Red Light/ Green Light

Equipment: Traffic light cards/none

This game also can be used in variations, e. g. Stop/Go, Walk/Freeze, Wake up/Sleep. When students are told “Green”, they walk around or run and can be noisy, when they are told “Red”, they freeze, don’t move and don’t make any sound. The ones who moved or laughed - are out. It can be very funny as the teacher walks between the kids making funny faces trying to make them laugh.When teacher call out “yellow”, which means that the students can continue to move but must move slowly.

1. Body Parts Musical Madness

Equipment: none

Group: 2 groups

Classmate choose a partner. One set of partners stand in a circle. The other set of partners stand in another circle surrounding the first circle. Music starts and this indicates to the students to start walking in circles --inside circle one way and outside circle the other way. Let the music play for about 30 seconds and then stop it.

  Teacher yells out “Hand to knee!” Students have to find their partner and put one hand to the partner’s knee. The last set of partners to find each other and get in position is OUT. Students get back into the two circles. Music starts again and the process is repeated until only a few sets of partners are left. The last set of partners is the winner! Watch out! This game can get crazy but it’s a lot of fun. 

Games help to make learning a foreign language interesting and more fun. They help the students to overcome shyness, constraint, remove language barrier and fatigue.

2019/7/12     Nursery 2 Queena