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3. Pairwork Games
There are many of pair activities students can do to practice English but very few of them take the form of a game.
-The best and most versatile one by far is Battleship. This will take a lesson to explain and practice but once your students are familiar with it, can be played as a twenty to thirty minute activity. Battleship is best used to practice tenses. The worksheet consists of two identical seven by seven grids, one above the other. The first box in the upper left is kept blank, the first row is filled in with phrases such as “play soccer” and “study English”, and the first column is filled in with words such as “I, You, He, We, and They, The students.” Students should secretly draw their “boats” on the grid. Typically one boat should have five squares, one boat should have four squares, two boats should have three squares, and one boat should have two squares. Boats can only be drawn vertically or horizontally. On the board practice the structure that students will use for the activity for example “I played soccer. You studied English.” until every row and column has been practiced and then instruct students to say “Hit”, “Miss”, or “You sank my ship!” when appropriate just like in the original game. Students can usually play two or three times before moving on to another activity. Theoretical Review and Discussion.TheoreticalReview.The characteristic of children as learners. They are developing quickly as individuals; it means that they have difference in language acquisition.
Learn in a variety of ways, for example; by watching, by listening, by imitating and by doing things. It means children learn their knowledge through what they see, heard in their surrounding and then imitate it and imitating by doing things (children learn by doing)
Are not able to understand grammatical rules and explanations about language. Children are not understanding about the rule of language, they only imitate what they are seeing and hearing.
Try to make sense of situations by making use of non-verbal clues. Children will do imitate, it means learning by doing.
Talk in their mother tongue about they understand and do this helps them learn. It means they use their mother tongue to understand everything.
Can generally imitate the sounds they hear quite accurately and copy the way adults speak. It means they do imitation, memorization, practice and over learning, what the people are said. Are naturally curious. They have strong willingness to know what they see and hear in their surroundings. Love to play and use their imagination. It means they are learning while playing. Are comfortable with routines and enjoy repetition. It means they need habit to learn.
Have quite a short attention span and need variety. Because they are learning while playing, it is needed many ways to make them understand what the teacher means.
Questions:
1. Speak about the importance of teaching language through the games.
2. What types of games do you know?
3. What step of the lesson may consist of the game?