4th grade, Unit 8 My Weekly Schedule, Games,

Zuhal KARADOĞAN

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TEACHING BY USING GAMES

4^th  Grade

Unit 8 My Weekly Schedule

Vocabularies: Maths, Science, History, Chess, Computer, Art, Science, English, Music

Activity 1: Bingo

Aim: This activity can be used at different parts of the lesson. It can be a free-time activity or warm-up activity. It is a good game for teaching vocabulary and have got/ has got. It aims to motivate students to learn because it makes learning environment more interesting and enjoyable. It also makes learning more effective as learning with such an activity makes learning more permanent. It is a competitive activity.

Materials: grids, vocabulary box

 Procedure:

*Teacher gives grids to each child

*Each grid should have 3 pictures of school subjects

*Teacher should choose one card from the box and tell which lesson it is.

*The student who has that word will say “I have got….” and cover its place with a piece of paper (for example, teacher picks up the word “science”. The student who has “science” says “I have got Science” and cover its place with a piece of paper.)

*The one who covers all spaces in his/her grid will win the game

*Game continues like this.

Activity 2: Lesson basket

Aim: This activity is the adopted version of “fruit basket.” This activity aims to help students learn the target vocabularies in an enjoyable way. It requires students’ active participation. It can be done as a warm-up activity.

Materials: no material is needed.

Procedure:

*Teacher wants students to make circle.

*S/he chooses four of school subjects such History, Maths, Science and English.

*The teacher distributes these school subjects to the students.

*When teacher says English, students who are English change their places.

*When the teacher says Maths, the students who are Maths change their places.

*When the teacher says lesson basket, all students change places. However, they cannot stay at their own places.

REFERENCES:

*Kahraman, Ayşe and Bahattin (2012) English 4.Grades, Semih Ofset-S.E.K Press

*Cameron, Lynne (2001) Teaching Language to Young Learners/ Learning     Pronunciation, Cambridge University Press

*Gordon Lewis and Günther Bedson, Games for children