Meryem Yönel 09131080 4th Grade Unıt 2 My Classroom Teaching Games

TEACHING GAMES

ACTIVITY 1: Memory (Card) Game-Pelmanism

(Accuracy Focused Game)

Grade: 4^th

Unit: My Classroom

Grammar Point: This/that is a board. Is this/that an eraser? Yes, it is/ No, it isn’t.

Vocabulary Point: There are some vocabularies such as pencil, pen, schoolbag, window, book, ruler, notebook, pencil case, eraser, sharpener, table, wastebasket, board, door, and chair.

Aims: To prepare students to the topic.

To motivate the students

To create a fun atmosphere

To help them improve their memory skills

To practise the language they use and vocabulary

To encourage the memorization of chunks of language

To provide excellent practice for improving pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and the four language skills

Materials: 15 pairs pictures cards

Procedure: Teacher comes to the class and s/he says they will practise classroom objects with the help of some games. One of them is memory game. Firstly, the teacher reminds the vocabulary on the cards before playing the game and reminds them grammar point by showing them how to play the game. Then, teacher shuffles the cards and places them face down in a grid form. One of the students turns two cards face up and says for example, this is a desk and this is a ruler. If the two cards match, the child can keep the pair and have another turn. In the second turn, the child has to make interrogative sentence such as is this a book and is this a pencil. In the third turn, s/he has to answer the question that s/he made such as is this a schoolbag, yes, it is/no, it is not. If the cards do not match, the child puts the cards face down again and the next student turns over two cards. The child who collects the most pairs wins.

ACTIVITY 2: Simon Says Game

 (Fluency Focused Game)

Grade: 4^th

Unit: My Classroom

Language Point: There are some classroom instructions such as stand up, sit down, be quiet please, listen to me, point, open or close your books, look at the board, repeat after me, clean the board, write or draw on the board and point to the door.

Aims: To make them feel more secure and confident

To improve their speaking and listening skills

To give them the chance of practicing the foreign language in a relaxed and enjoyable way

To make them have fun while playing the game

To practise the chunks at the topic

To motivate the students

To encourage students to stand in front of the class

To practise imperatives with the help of Total Physical Response actions

Procedure: After completing memory game, teacher introduces Simon says game. In this game, teacher wants students to make a circle in front of the class. Then s/he calls out a command such as, Simon says sit down, and the students do the action and they do what the teacher says. Then teacher chooses a student and wants him to call out a command without saying Simon says and the students doing the action will be out. To make the game harder, teacher divides the class into groups and gives them different classroom commands such as  stand up, sit down, be quiet please, listen to me, point, open or close your books, look at the board, repeat after me, clean the board, write or draw on the board and point to the door. Later on, the groups try to perform that action in front of the other groups and want them to predict which action it can be. For example, one of the students shows the action of ‘draw on the board’ by using his body language; the others belonging to the other groups guess it and the group that knows the action more than the others wins. 

REFERENCES

      Cameron, Lynne (2001) Teaching Languages to Young Learners/ Learning Grammar.Cambridge University Press.

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