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Games for language learning
Cambridge University Press
Third Edition, 2006.
(211 games and variations)
Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby
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Workshop on Games
Families of game based on challenges and invitations
Our definition of the word ‘game’
‘an activity which is entertaining and engaging, often challenging, and an activity in which the learners play and usually interact with others…..Competition against others is not an essential ingredient of games, but challenge often is…’ (Introduction page 1)
Summary of the potential of games
Some mechanical practice with minimal meaning is OK.
Also a generally motivated language learner can be expected to be interested in learning the language to a certain extent…
But…
Communicative activities can make the learners care about what they are saying.
It is not just the content but how the learner feels, thinks and what he or she is expected to do which makes the activity engaging or not.
The student is a student of English for the traditional teacher but obviously is a whole person.
The ‘communicative approach’ teacher wants activities which engage the learner as a whole person in such a way that he or she can take part with their English. In this way the new language is experienced, not merely studied.
A real litmus test: Would the learner want to do this in his or her mother tongue? Can’t always live up to this but it is worth trying!
Challenges and invitations are two ways of engaging people.
Broadly the concepts expressed can be subjective or objective.
The student can speak or write as him/herself or as someone else.
Why bother with the idea of families of game?!
‘Being aware of the essential character of a type of game and the way in which it engages the learner can be helpful in the adaptation of games or the creation of new games.’ (Introduction page 4) Most strikingly a game generally known for its use with elementary learners can often be adapted for use with advanced learners based on this idea.
Families of games in, ‘Games for Language Learning’
CARE AND SHARE
Games in which the learner feels comfortable whilst sharing personal information with other learners.
Ice breakers and warmers
1.1 Learning names (adapted for animals…
Each learner draws an animal on a bit of paper…You supply the name of the animal. ‘Hello I’m Andrew. I’m an armadillo. She’s Julia. She’s a sheep.’ Etc.
1.3 Pass on a sound
Circle. Pass on a word, phrase or non-verbal sound as exactly as possible.
1.7 Variation 1 Something nice which happened
Ask pairs of learners to take it in turns to tell each other about something nice which has happened to them recently.
1.8 All the words you know
The learners brainstorm all the words they can remember in exactly three minutes…and try to beat their own record.
1.11 Visualisation
You or a learner describe a situation while the learners listen with their eyes closed.
1.12 Lost in the Fog
Blindfolded child instructed by other child.
Comment
These games relate more to invitation than to challenge.
DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY
The learner is expected to do something non-verbally in response to a read or a heard text.
Care and share 1.11 Visualisation
You or a learner describe a situation while the learners listen with their eyes closed.
Care and share 1.12 Lost in the Fog
Blindfolded child instructed by other child
Speaking 2.3 Describe and draw
2.4 Describe and identify
Listening 3.1 Listen and draw. A describes and B draws an amazing looking person.
Reading 5.1 Whats my mime? A text list of actions. A mimes one. B identifies it.
Grammar 7.3 Miming Var 1 to 10 Miming all the tenses. Others identify.
Comment
Clearly this is a rich family for early learners…but it IS also relevant for those wanting to develop their listening skills at later stages. Listening and responding appropriately is pretty crucial in daily life! Responses may be verbal or non-verbal.
IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE
The learner is challenged and or invited to identify something which is difficult to identify or to hypothesise about something which is then compared with the facts.
Speaking 2.1 Slowly reveal a picture
Vocabulary 6.1 Feely game Listening. Smelling. Tasting. Feeling. Looking.
Grammar 7.13 Flashing a picture
Grammar 7.14 How long is it? How wide…How big…?
Comment
Something means anything…any information through the five senses. Language is used to communicate hypotheses and to receive and consider other peoples ideas.
DESCRIBE
The learner is challenged and or invited to describe something, objectively or subjectively to another learner, by speaking or writing, so well that the other learner can do something eg identify, draw, make, choose, go to a place, imagine.
Speaking 2.4 Variation 4 A describes thoughts in a picture and B identifies whose thoughts they are.
Writing 4.2 Draw the bank robbers plus 3 variations
Comment
The description might be a single word.
CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP
The learner is challenged to connect, compare, match or group various items of information, perhaps pictures or texts, objectively or subjectively. He or she uses language to describe or comment on the pairs or groups of information.
COMPARE, MATCH
Speaking 2.5 Two pictures Reasonable or crazy connections.
Speaking 2.6 Whats the difference? Classic info game based on two similar pictures
Listening 3.6 Bingo
Reading 5.5 Pelmanism Matching related info on cards… Pic/Pic, Pic/Text, Text/Text, Audio/Visual, Text/Life, etc.
Grammar 7.17 Bingo grammar
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GROUP
Vocabulary 6.8 Odd-one-out
How many groups can you be said to belong to?
List four countries…dictate words/phrases…write under appropriate country.
Page of scattered words or singular or plural forms…identify and group
Comment
This is the biggest family…it is a fundamental characteristic of thinking!
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ORDER
The learner is challenged or invited to put various bits of information into an order of value, quality or importance, subjectively or objectively,’
Listening 3.7 Most important-least important Dictation…decide where to write each statement. See: brainstorm and then order of importance of mistakes
Comment
A smaller family but a very useful one which is rich as a basis for discussion.
SEQUENCE
The learner is challenged or invited to put texts, pictures, objects, into a developmental sequence, also subjectively or objectively.
Listening 3.8 Put the story in order Dictate a story out of sequence
Reading 5.6 variation 1 Stand in order holding word cards
Grammar 7.18 Delete a word from a text but keep it grammatical
Grammar 7.19 Word by word add a word but keep it grammatical
Comment
The subjective and objective difference extends this family dramatically.
REMEMBER
The learner is challenged or invited to remember something and then to communicate what he or she has remembered.
Speaking 2.8 What can you remember?
Trying to remember eg Pictures on the wall behind you. Eg Exact detail of what you did this morning…or how you brush your teeth. Eg Erasing and remembering a text word by word.
Eg Whispering game.
Vocabulary 6.9 pelmansism cards face down remember the position
Vocabulary 6.11 A long and growing list eg things you bought…things you did…
Vocabulary 6.13 Would you make a good witness?
Comment
Remembering is central to learning…different people remember different things in different ways…this family is worth exploring…some people can remember stories but not grammatical rules…or vice versa.
CREATE
The learner is challenged or invited to make a story, write a poem or produce some other kind of material using their imagination. ‘Challenged’ might include those story-making starters in which you stipulate certain features: for example, you stipulate that a certain tense form must occur very often, or that the story must be exactly 50 words long. ‘Invited’, because sometimes the best way to stir the creative forces is to ‘invite’, ‘encourage’, ‘show interest’, and so on.
Speaking 2.10 Question stories
The teacher asks questions and the answers create a story.
Speaking 2.13 A sound poem
Playing with the sounds of words.
Grammar 7.24 Interrupting a story
Grammar 7.25 Pattern poems
Comment
Remembering is central to learning…different people remember things in different ways…this family worth exploring in order to help the learners recognise their own learning and remembering styles.
Games for Language Learning Third Edition 2006
Cambridge University Press
There are 211 games and variations in the new edition grouped in the following sections: 1 Icebreakers and warmers 2 Mainly speaking 3 Mainly listening 4 Mainly writing 5 Mainly reading 6 Mainly vocabulary and spelling 7 Mainly grammar 8 Solo games
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