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Anyone who has been «Excellent» in these games, he feels like a fish in water in adult life,
the rest are either still learn to communicate, or at all «fell» out of life, becoming almost reclusive.
So what gives games at English lessons? First of all, it helps to overcome the barrier, be it linguistic
or ordinary fear of intercourse, even in their native language. After the game — it’s not for real, and
you can indulge yourself.
The game in the English language will help in the development of grammar, vocabulary,
pronunciation help hone and even accelerate the process of listening foreign language. In every
game there
is an element of surprise, the element of competition, and we all love to win. Even if
you win — not the main thing, it really likes to check their strength each. Do not forget that the
game — a projection situations.
Let’s begin with a simple. Tongue twisters will be useful at all stages of education. The
paradox, but adults enjoy «break» language at all stages of language learning, not to mention the
children. Tongue twisters — it’s a good warm-up before exercise, and staging diction.
Surprises like? I recommend to play at English lessons in the study of the topic «The
adjectives in the English language.» It is played with gusto and adults and children. Issued a closed
black box with two holes on the sides for arms and with an unknown object inside. The leader must
be touching the object hands to describe it using only adjectives. At the same time, repeat the order
of adjectives in a sentence.
When attaching the interrogative sentences will help the game «Guess who I am.»This game
is applicable to a variety of topics: «Animals», «profession», «House» and many others. The leader
chooses a card with an inscription on it, and, without reading it, with the help of leading questions
on trying to figure out what it says.
Gaming moments in teaching English language is not necessary, because it is — one of the
components of
the success of the class, and most importantly, the easiest way to mastering language
or recurrence of material.
Unfortunately, in real condition it is still difficult for teachers to encouragetheir students to
learn English because of some reasons, they are: the shyness of students in performing their ability,
large students in a class, and practically thestudents are not exposed to hear and use English
everywhere and all the time.Since language learning is a hard task,
teachers are now faceda big
challenge tofind techniques and ways so that the students can be active in learning English.
One of the techniques that can be used is by using games(Richards &Rodgers, 2001). By
using games teachers will create an atmosphere that willenhance the students’ desire to learn the
language. The students learn better whenthey have the feeling that they are making progress and
games provideopportunity for students to practice andomit their fear.
Games for assessing the students. Based on the interview with the teacher and the observation,
there were some games used to assess the students. These games were:
Jeopardy. This game was adopted from television quiz showandadopted intolanguagegamefor
educational tool.The rules of this game were simple. Teacher wouldshow a board consisted of some
categories. Each category had different value.The students had to choose one of the categories and
the teacher then revealed theclues (question) hidden. The students had to answer it to get the
score.Theobjectives of this gameare: to find synonyms, to find antonyms, and to answer questions
related to the text such as the main ideas, the characters ofstory,andtheorganization structure of the
text.
Guess the Word. Guess the word was originally created to improve students’ vocabularymastery.
The teachers modified the game so it can be used to assess the studentsto find synonym or antonym
or words, analyzing the
structure of a text,andunderstanding a text.The rules of the game were
simple: the class was dividedinto some groups and each group would play at one time, each group
will be given eight words and they had to be guessed in 5 minuteswith clues givenby the team,the
clue given should not use the word which was being guessed.
Games for developing students’ vocabulary/ for drilling a particular languageitem. These games
were conducted by the English teacher to develop students’vocabulary or practicing a specific
language items. These games were:
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Spell Your Word. This game was aimed to develop students’ vocabulary and
correct pronunciation. The teachers sometimes used this game as an ice breaker or asinfilling extra
time. This game was played in groups. Basically the groups willmake a line and took a paper out
of a box or bottle and spell the word.If it wasright then the group would make a score, if not the
player had to sit back.
Rolling Box. The game was intended to obtain students comprehension ingrammar that had been
learned and it was created based on the collaboration of the teacher andstudents’ creativity. The rule
of the game was simple. All students had to stand upin circle and they had to roll the boxwith a
song played by the teacher. When thesong stopped, the student who held the box had
totakeoneofrolled papers anddid the task given by the teacher.
Games for delivering the material. Thisgame wascalled “Chain Writing” andused by the teacher
to teach thestudents how to write a text. Before writing the students were given theknowledge
about the structure of the text of the purpose of the text. The teacher gave a topic for students.The
students would write in a group of four andexchanged the writing with other groups and did peer
assessment. In the end theteacher would give feedback and correction.
In this part the researcher described the students’ opinion
toward the use of games in
teaching English. To do this, as stated in the previous chapter, theresearcher used questionnaires.
There were ten questions and categorized into two parts. The first three questions were intended to
ask about the importance of English, and the rest were focused on the obtaining information about
students’impression toward games.
The percentages of students’ opinion of using games particularly showedtheir positive
responses of using games as one teaching techniques. Games madesome materials more
understandable, because the students really enjoy thelearning.The students thought that games like
“Spell Your Word” was alreadyknown and popular so they had no difficultiesin playing the game.
While“Guessthe Word” and “Chain Writing”were amusing and challenging so that studentstend to
like them. While the students felt relax and enjoy the teaching and learning process in classroom it
was easy for teacher to teach the target language.In other hand, some of the students seemed to have
their difficulties when playing games.One of the reasons was the students’lack of vocabularies.
The conclusions were drawn related to the research problem of the study abouthowthe use of
games in
teaching English
The conclusionswere:
There were several games used by the English teachers at lesson
Therewere five games observed, they are: “Jeopardy”, “Spell Your Word”, “Guess theWord”,
“Chain Writing”, and “Rolling Box”. These games were used to deliver the material, to assess the
student skill in understanding the text, and to revise previous material, such as grammar.
Almost all of the students gave positive respond towardthe use of games inteaching English. The
students thought that games helped them to understandthe material easier and games could reduce
boredom. Student felt relax whenlearning English by using games.
It was also found that students faced some problems when playing games. Mostof students refer
to the lack of the vocabulary as a hindrance in doing games.Students thought that vocabularies were
used a lot when they had to play games
In conclusion, learning vocabulary through games is one effective and
interesting way that
can be applied in any classrooms. The results of this research suggest that games are used not only
for fun, but more importantly, for the useful practice and review of language lessons.Games are
highly motivating because they are amusing and interesting. They can be used to give practice in all
language skills and be used to practice many types of communication
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