Thursday, February 15, 2007

Language learning games

Learnig through games is an amazing and funny way that hep students to internalise the new knowledge. Children do not feel boried at all, when they go to classes and this kind of methods are used; they are happy and comfortable with these activities. They are learning unconsciously.

This text is going to provide you a lot of games which can be use to teach numbers, letters or numbers/letters within the same game.

For onstance, if you want to teach numbers, there is an exited and easy game called Bingo. This game is based on a card. Each player has a card with twenty spaces with different numbers. To play this game the teacher has to called the numbers not more than once while students cross out the numbers that teacher called before. There are two ways of winning. The first one is when the students cross out the numbers which are located in the same line; the second is when the student has all the numbers that the teacher called in his or her card. This person has to scream FULL HOUSE! The objective of this game is that children could recognize the numbers as fast as they can.
Of course, there are a lot of games that teachers can use in order to help to improve children's vocabulary; such as word associations, the grammar focus game, what 's my line?and so on.
To sump up, teaching vocabulary through games is an interesting proposal that every teacher could take into account in order to help to improve children's vocabulary. As you can see, this games are simple to prepare and administer in class.



Of course , there are games where you can learn letters and numbers at the same time. This game is secret message. In this game you have to give a letter and agreed number. For example: a =3 , b= 8 and so on. Students have to decode the message.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Maria,
You should check your spelling as well as the use of some grammatical elements, like exited instead of exciting. Remember this is a complement to a Reading and Writing course.
Greetings, and I hope you succeed in the following semesters,
MIAU