Teach and Have Fun with no Effort

1. TeachandHaveFunwith no Effort

3. Games What is a game? When do you play games? Why do you play games? How long do the games last?

4. What is a game? A game is an activity carried out by cooperating or competing decision makers, seeking to achieve, within a set of rules, their objectives. (Gibbs)

5. A true game is one that frees the spirit. It is governed by rules, which set clearly defined goals. Games are for playing and this element is crucial. (Julia Khan)

6. Orsimply A play governed by rules.

7. Homo Ludens According to Huizinga (Dutch professor and phylosopher) play is a most fundamental human function and has permeated all cultures from the beginning.

8. The Royal game ofUr The first game we know of – The Royal Game of Ur or The Game of Twenty Squares - dates from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BC. One of the board gaming equipment is exhibited in the collections of the British Museum.

9. The Royal Game ofUr

10. The Royal Game ofUr

11. Warm up • Practice / Consolidation • Wrap up • Any time When do you play games?

12. Games are often used as short warm-up activities or when there is some time left at the end of a lesson. However, they are useful at several moments in the lesson. E.g. revision: helping students recall the subject in a pleasant way. The right moment is determined by the objective of the lesson and the challenge it implies. Learners should be ready to meet the challenge.

13. They are enjoyable, motivating and challenging • They foster cooperation and /or competition • They break the routine and help learners maintain their learning effort • They foster student – student interaction and thus build class cohesion • They distract learners’ attention from the linguistic form and help learners feel more relaxed, more willing to learn Why do you play games?

14. They provide practice in the 4 skills • They help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful • They can give shy students an opportunity to say something without feeling exposed or threatened • Experience demonstrates that we learn faster, more easily, and have better long-term results when our mind does not focus only on the learning process, rules and structures

15. There is no definite time. How long a game lasts depends on the game itself and not on how much time the teacher has available. Howlong do games last?

16. What are theadvantages? Affective Cognitive Classroom Dynamics Adaptability

17. What are theadvantages? Affective

18. Games: What are theadvantages? Cognitive

19. What are theadvantages? Classroom Dynamics

20. What are theadvantages? Adaptability

21. When to use? Warm up Practice / Consolidation Wrap up

22. Game 94 CrazyPictures (or) Droodles

23. What is this?

24. What is this? A shark back from Disney.

25. What’sThis?

26. What’sThis? An egg, sunny side down. A hat that thinks it's a bowl. A confused sunset. A pregnant worm. An alien who didn't quite land it right. A poorly built boat in a desert. A body-building snake.

27. What’sThis?

28. What’sThis? Four elephants sniffing an orange. Close-up of a windmill. Confusion ensues at the world pool championship. Four straws and a pea. A quadclamation mark. Unsportsmanlike gopher hunting. All for one, and one for all. A dangerously close-up view of a propeller.

29. What’sThis?

30. What’sThis? Someone playing a trombone in a telephone box. A paper clip playing hide and seek. A box for Pinocchio. A hairpin in a wall socket. A Square penguin. A Rock climbing worm. A rectangle with a long nose.

31. Game 68 FindNationalities

32. Game 298 IntonationFun “Hello” “Goodbye” “How are you?” “What have you done?”

33. Game 132 Tell Me Who YouLike Form groups of 4 (or 5) students Distribute 4 slips of paper or ask students to prepare Individually, student writes the name of a celebrity on each slip Collect the slips and put them in a bag. A volunteer gets one slip, glues it to the board and says: I like him/her or I don´t like him/her. Depending on the level students can explain why.

34. Game 230 VerbSpelling On the board ask students to write all the irregular past tenses Revise the alphabet Ask students to draw a 5 by 10 grid on their notebooks Each student say a letter of the alphabet All the students write the letter in the grid, trying to write past tense forms The game finishes when all the squares have been completed The winner is the one with a higher number of past tense forms

35. Game 14 Elimination Instructions Ask students to stand up Describe any characteristic (This person is tall.) All the students with that characteristic sit down Continue until only one student is standing. Note: depending on the level of the group, the students can prepare the list of characteristics

36. Game 17 Autograph Bingo Instructions Write some interesting facts on the board (has a pet) Students draw a 5 x 5 grid on their notebooks and copy the facts they want to Students walk around and try to find the people with those characteristics They write the name next to the characteristic The winner is the one with 5 names on a column Then he/she introduces the people. (Jane has a pet.)

37. Game 33 Survivor Instructions All the students stand up Say a word (that students have already learned) e.g. puppet The first student repeats the word and says the first letter, the second students says the second letter and so on If a student makes a mistake, he sits down and the next one starts again (until the word is correctly spelt The survivor is the student who is still standing at the end of the game.

38. Game 34 Funny Spelling I 1 2 C U = R U O K? = I C D T = I O U = E Z = B Z = D D U C R 2? =

39. Game 34 Funny Spelling I 1 T = C U @ 9 = 2 E Z 4 U = R U D Z? = R U B Z? = I C U =

40. “Man only plays, when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.” (On the Aesthetic Education of Man – Friedrich Schiller)

41. Game 160JumpingTheLine 2 Groups or whole class Draw a line on the floor One side is TRUE, the other is FALSE Ask students to stand on the line and say a sentence Students should jump onto the TRUE or FALSE side The student who makes a mistake has to do something or is out of the game

42. Game 160 There are 10 teachers in this room. Some are wearing jeans. There are no people here wearing T-shirts. There aren´t any doors in this room. Some people are blond. All the male teachers have blue eyes. Nobody is having fun. I can see no teachers here. Everyone in the room went to the movies last Sunday. I drink some water everyday.

43. “The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden, heaven is a playground.” G.K. Chesterton

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