LANGUAGE GAMES

Different Types of Language Games

1. LANGUAGE GAMES Educational value of Language games In communicative approach games have great importance. They provide real interest in children. Language games may help hesitant and shy pupils to participate in the games. It can improve the students fluency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Language games help to make the class lively and interesting.

2. THE PLACE OF LANGUAGE GAMES IN TEACHING ENGLISH To help the pupil learn the target language in a playful way. To teach or test structure or vocabulary. To make the classroom lively. To develop co-operation in language learning. To participate all pupils in class. To execute interest in learning.

3. DIFFERENT TYPES OF LANGUAGE GAMES There are different language games namely: Speaking games Spelling games Reading games Writing games Grammar games Listening games Riddles Oral games Conversational games Vocabulary games

4. SPEAKING GAMES Speech games can be given through group work. So divide the class into two groups. Give games like Dumb crambo . Pupils from each team in turn represent different animals and make noises of animals. Members of the opposite group should say the name of the animals. Another game is the Ladder game . In this game the teacher name an institution say hospital and ask the class to say words connected with a hospital and asks the class to say words connected with a hospital like doctor, nurse, bed. Medicine etc. The group that say a word not relevant to a hospital loses a point. This game is suitable for improving the word power of pupils .

5. SPELLING GAMES The teacher says a word ‘book’ and asks the class to say a word beginning with K (The last letter). If one group says ‘kite’ the next group should say a word beginning with ‘e’. One that gives a wrong answer loses one point. Making many words is another game. The teacher gives a word out of the component letters of the word. Pupils make many words. E.g. If the word given is mother, pupils can make many words, out of this like ‘moth’ ,‘other’, ‘hot’, ‘her’ etc.

6. READING GAMES Read and Do It is a reading game. Make several pieces of paper and write in each of them some action words like ‘read’ ‘write’, ‘laugh’. Let the pupils come forward and take one piece. After reading it, the pupil has to do the actions. At the same time other pupils may be asked to say what the pupil is doing.

7. WRITING GAMES Creation The teacher writes on the blackboard or says a sentence such as ‘sita sings song’ ( each word in the sentence begins with ‘s’) and asks to students to make similar sentences and write them on loose sheets of paper. Picture game The teacher shows a picture and asks many questions about what they have seen in the picture and finally asks the children to write what they have said about the picture.

8. GRAMMAR GAMES Grammar can be taught through effective games to teach nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Teacher asks students to write the following on a rectangular piece of paper. Their hobby on top right hand corner Favorite person/place/thing on the left hand corner. One of their best qualities on the bottom right hand corner The teacher then points out that the names of favorite person/place/thing which they wrote are nouns, their hobbies like reading, listening to music, watching T. V, playing etc. are the verbs and the words which described their good/bad qualities are the adjectives.

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