Education of the republic of uzbekistan termez state university department of english language and literature

Grammatical games.

Game with ball. The aim: automation the using of the forms of verbs in spoken language. The course of the game: teacher divides pupils into two groups. The participant of the first group makes a sentence with the definite verb. He throws the ball to the participant of another group, and tells his sentence omitting the verb. The player, who catches the ball, repeats the sentence and inserts the verb. All the actions will repeat.

Presents. The aim: to consolidate the vocabulary of the theme, to automatize the using of learned verbs in the future simple in spoken language. The course of game: Teacher divides participant into two groups. She writes two lines of words: 1) names of animals; 2) the list of verbs. The participants must say what they will do with presents using the verbs from the list. Every player must make one sentence. The team, which will do the task quickly and make the sentence, will win.

Alan Maley also distinguishes games into types in his book “Games for children”. All the games in his book are arranged according to areas which are central to a young child's experience: themes with which they can immediately identify regardless of language. The order of themes is not random but grows from a central point: the children themselves. Each wider theme contains the information from the theme before, used in a different, exciting way. Thus, although `colors' as a theme appears early on in the book, the reader will find games with colors in many other areas as well.

It is important to know what types of game are available in order to plan a lesson with a balanced rhythm. There are many different types of games: cards games, board games, games with music, to name but a few. However, many games are difficult to label. Therefore, Alan Maley has assigned an each game a type based on its most outstanding feature - for example, although a board game includes dice rolling, the board itself is the primary focus.