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.

THE PLACE OF
LANGUAGE GAMES IN
TEACHING ENGLISH
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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.

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

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.

SPELLING
SPELLING GAMES
GAMES
1. The teacher says a word book and asks the class to
1. The teacher says a word book and asks the class to

say a word beginning with K (The last letter). If one

say a word beginning with K (The last letter). If one
group says kite the next group should say a word
group says kite the next group should say a word
beginning with e. One that gives a wrong answer
beginning with e. One that gives a wrong answer
loses one point.
loses one point.

2. Making many words is another game. The teacher

2. Making many words is another game. The teacher

gives a word out of the component letters of the word.

gives a word out of the component letters of the word.
Pupils make many words. E.g. If the word given is
Pupils make many words. E.g. If the word given is
mother, pupils can make many words, out of this like
mother, pupils can make many words, out of this like
moth ,other, hot, her etc.
moth ,other, hot, her etc.

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.

Creation

WRITING GAMES
WRITING GAMES

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.

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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