Presenters: Janet Robles, Julington Creek Elementary and Donna Guzzo, Durbin Creek Elementary School

Presentation Description:
Games are a powerful tool to introduce vocabulary, practice key concepts or review at the end of a lesson. In this interactive workshop, attendees will participate in a variety of classroom tested games that will leave your students wanting more. Language class has neer been this fun! This presentation will include overhead, board, computer, TPRS and ball games. Participants will receive a handout with game ideas to implement in class.

Why play games

• Foster student participation
• Are fun (lower affective filter
• Give a purpose to learning
• Promote a positive attitude
• Are learner centered
• Reduce learning anxiety
• Integrate various linguistic skills
• Encourage creative and dynamic use of language
• Construct a corporative learning environment
• Foster student participation

Links to games mentioned in the presentation

• Dix Points
• Macher la moustique
• Living Sentences
• Twenty Questions
• Meet your neighbor
• M&Ms
• The Harry Potter Game
• Country Game

Games played with attendees:

• Caja Magica

• Veo veo una bandera

o Teacher thinks of a flag and starts by giving one clue. Studnets are to guess the correct flag. Teacher only answers with yes/no
o Color blanco
o Color azul
o Con estrellas
o Teachers repeats all the clues and adds another one until someone guesses the correct flag

Silly sentence game

o Need two or three egg cartons with a pebble inside. One are animals written in them, adjective, and verbs.
o Shake the egg carton
o Open the carton in order
o Students make a drawing of their silly sentence

Battleship
Two students each have a battleship “house” in front of them. They place the members of the family in different rooms of the house without the other student seeing where. Then they ask each other questions, such as “Is the father in the living room?”. The goal is to find all the family members in the other student’s house.

Dominos
o With time
o One side of the Domino is the time drawn on a clock and the other side it is written out in words. Ex. Es la una

Posted: 22. July, 2006 at 9:42 pm. Filed under: Uncategorized.
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