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Department for Continuing Education
Grammar games and
activities
• Why use games for practising grammar
• Grammar games to take away and use
in your next class.
where / from? what / do / last night ?
what / this time last week? favourite colour?
what / do / this evening? do any sports?
first time in Oxford? how long / teach?
Conventional published grammar practice exercises help with formal,
declarative mastery, but make the task of developing procedural skills
more difficult. David Nunan
Random sentences like random notes of music are heard and then
forgotten … But arrange those notes into the context of a catchy melody
and the tune will stick in the mind. Noel Goodey
The teacher has to contrive a situation in which learners are
simultaneously alert to language as form and language as meaning.
Peter Skehan
The great challenge is to set up activities which are essentially
meaning-focused, but within which a focus on form can be engineered.
Scott Thornbury
Conventional published grammar practice exercises help with formal,
declarative mastery, but make the task of developing procedural skills
more difficult. David Nunan
Random sentences like random notes of music are heard and then
forgotten … But arrange those notes into the context of a catchy melody
and the tune will stick in the mind. Noel Goodey
The teacher has to contrive a situation in which learners are
simultaneously alert to language as form and language as meaning.
Peter Skehan
The great challenge is to set up activities which are essentially
meaning-focused, but within which a focus on form can be engineered.
Scott Thornbury
Conventional published grammar practice exercises help with formal,
declarative mastery, but make the task of developing procedural skills
more difficult. David Nunan
Random sentences like random notes of music are heard and then
forgotten … But arrange those notes into the context of a catchy melody
and the tune will stick in the mind. Noel Goodey
The teacher has to contrive a situation in which learners are
simultaneously alert to language as form and language as meaning.
Peter Skehan
The great challenge is to set up activities which are essentially
meaning-focused, but within which a focus on form can be engineered.
Scott Thornbury
Conventional published grammar practice exercises help with formal,
declarative mastery, but make the task of developing procedural skills
more difficult. David Nunan
Random sentences like random notes of music are heard and then
forgotten … But arrange those notes into the context of a catchy melody
and the tune will stick in the mind. Noel Goodey
The teacher has to contrive a situation in which learners are
simultaneously alert to language as form and language as meaning.
Peter Skehan
The great challenge is to set up activities which are essentially
meaning-focused, but within which a focus on form can be engineered.
Scott Thornbury
Conventional published grammar practice exercises help with formal,
declarative mastery, but make the task of developing procedural skills
more difficult. David Nunan
Random sentences like random notes of music are heard and then
forgotten … But arrange those notes into the context of a catchy melody
and the tune will stick in the mind. Noel Goodey
The teacher has to contrive a situation in which learners are
simultaneously alert to language as form and language as meaning.
Peter Skehan
The great challenge is to set up activities which are essentially
meaning-focused, but within which a focus on form can be engineered.
Scott Thornbury
Craik, F. I. M., & Lockhart, R. S. (1972). Levels of
processing: A framework for memory research. Journal
of Verbal Learning and Verbal behavior.
Grammar Games and Activities
What’s the purpose or benefit of playing games?
Do you have any favourite games for practising
grammar points?
Well-chosen games are invaluable as they give students a break and at
the same time allow students to practise language skills ... Furthermore,
they employ meaningful and useful language in real contexts. Aydan Ersoz
Games add variation to a lesson and increase motivation by providing a
plausible incentive to use the target language. Gordon Lewis
Most language games make learners use the language instead of thinking
about learning the correct forms. WR Lee
Games can lower anxiety, thus making the acquisition of input more likely.
Richard-Amato
Games help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and work.
Wright, Betteridge and Buckby
Well-chosen games are invaluable as they give students a break and at
the same time allow students to practise language skills ... Furthermore,
they employ meaningful and useful language in real contexts. Aydan Ersoz
Games add variation to a lesson and increase motivation by providing a
plausible incentive to use the target language. Gordon Lewis
Most language games make learners use the language instead of thinking
about learning the correct forms. WR Lee
Games can lower anxiety, thus making the acquisition of input more likely.
Richard-Amato
Games help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and work.
Wright, Betteridge and Buckby
Key benefits …
- student-centred
- class cohesion / cooperation
- lowers affective filter
- focuses on grammar communicatively
- makes it memorable
• present new language = A1
• drill repeatedly > boredom = A2
• too much challenge > anxiety = A3
• right amount of challenge = A4
• games offers an effective way to achieve this.
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Different types of activities:
Structure drills
Using imagination
Challenges
Shared knowledge / Quizzes
Cooperative games
TPR
Bingo!
Most common past participles that occur with
Have you ever are ...
been / seen / had / heard / tried
They account for more than half of all occurrences
of Have you ever.
Remember, remember
What can you remember?
1 What was the builder doing?
2 Who was using their phone?
3 Was the cyclist wearing a helmet?
4 What was the thief stealing?
5 How many people were wearing some kind of hat?
6 The graffiti artist, what was he drawing?
7 What was the guy playing the guitar wearing?
8 What was the man sitting on the bench doing?
1 Choose an image
2 Find a partner
3 Make two sentences
comparing the things.
eg
A book is more educational
than a shower.
A shower is more fun
than a book.
Crazy
Comparatives
a noise a mistake nothing
a mess the washing up a photo
my homework lunch a speech
an aspirin some damage an exam
some washing the bed a break
some ironing a decision your time
a coffee care some work
an effort a phone call some exercise
Make, do or take?
Superlative Seconds
1 a (Mandarin)
2 c (Russia)
3 b (Christianity)
4 t (e)
5 a (spiders)
6 b (Nile)
7 c (the)
8 a (France)
9 a (Ukraine)
10 c (Mohammed)
Students learn more effectively … when their feelings, opinions,
experiences and knowledge are valued and crucial to the success of the
activities. Griffiths & Keohane
Language learning is most effective when students engage in meaningful
activities on a personal level rather than just ‘going through the motions’.
Kay & Jones
It is the need to get meanings across and the pleasure experienced
when this is achieved that motivates second language acquisition.
Rod Ellis
where / from? what / do / last night ?
what / this time last week? favourite colour?
what / do / this evening? do any sports?
first time in Oxford? how long / teach?