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GAMES TO PLAY AT THE ENGLISH LESSON!
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy-always remember the proverb. When I enter the classroom I try to look happy and enthusiastic. With younger children I begin with good old “Good morning, good morning, good morning to you….I’m glad to see you!”
If during the lesson we come across the things that must be counted (e.g. pages, pupils, books) we count them in chorus-“ Practice makes perfect”,-my favourite motto.
I prefer to play games at the end of the lesson, this habit of mine can be useful when the problem of discipline arises-I can threat there’ll be no games.
1.What’s your name?
A child comes to the blackboard. He tells the teacher one of the names of the pupils in class( they shouldn’t hear). The children try to guess:
Is your (his, her) name…….?
The one who tells the right name comes to the blackboard and the game starts again.
2.Have you got the rabbit?
You need a set of pictures (animals, fruits, school items, toys) to play the game . The children are sitting at their places or if you think they need a bit of exercise or are tired of sitting you may call them to the blackboard and ask to make a circle. You( or some clever child) tell the rhyme and choose the first player.
You show the children a picture of a rabbit. The chosen person goes out of the room and stays there until invited. You give the picture to any child you like( I usually give it to the most miserable one to make him brighter). He hides the picture ( if the children are at the blackboard they keep their hands behind their backs). The children shout( and they like it!)
Sasha(Sveta) come in please!
Sasha( Sveta) comes in and begins to ask questions pointing to the children:
Have you got the rabbit?
You can modify the game:
Has he(she) got the rabbit?-and all the class answers in chorus.
3.You can play with letter cards.
Let the pupils make a line. Show them the letters, they must name them( one letter at a time). If the answer is correct the pupil runs to the end of the line, if he doesn’t know the letter he goes to his seat in the classroom. The children who remain are WINNERS!
4. Let the children show some fruits, animals, professions, actions, letters, etc.
The other children must guess:
Are you a banana( a hare, a pilot, the letter B)?
Are you sleeping? (Can you skate? If they don’t know any tenses).5.A pupil describes a person sitting in the room, any teacher or just any person known to everybody not telling his name: the way he looks, the way he dresses, his hobbies.
The other pupils must guess who he is. You can change the game a little telling the pupils to ask questions about the secret person.
6.You can play hide-&-seek and revise the prepositions of place. Find a nice picture showing a room, a garden, a street. Revise all the names of the objects shown in the picture beforehand.
Choose one child to tell you secretly where he is in the picture. All the rest ask questions:
Are you under( on, in ,opposite, in front of) the table?
7.We read and retell a lot of the texts at the lessons. Sometimes children are bored to retell them, to make this task more interesting and more difficult you can ask them to retell it imagining yourself some other character from the text ( e.g. the tale about Bob and the beanstalk: you are the Cow, you are Bob’s mum, you are a Giant and you are telling the story)
Sometimes games emerge from nowhere at the lesson , some games come and go but if the children like the game they’ll remind you of it and ask for more.
English as a school subject is the lesson where friendly atmosphere is especially in great demand you can easily achieve it playing games with children. One detail is important too: your love of English and the children but these you can’t be taught/