Miss Nadia Fetoh

The objectives of the workshop

Use interesting educational activities to make teaching fun . Create safe and supportive learning environments.

What is a game?

"A game is an activity with rules, a goal and an element of fun. There are two kinds of games: Competitive games, in which players or teams race to be the first to reach the goal, and cooperative games, in which players or teams work together towards a common goal.

Why do we use games in class time? Games are fun and children like to play them. Through games children experiment, discover, and interact with their environment. Games add variation to a lesson and increase motivation by providing a plausible motivation to use the target language. The game context makes the foreign language immediately useful to the children. It brings the target language to life.

Through playing games, students can learn English the way children learn their mother tongue without being aware they are studying; thus without stress, they can learn a lot. Even shy students can participate positively

The Role of the teacher

Preparing the materials in sufficient quantities. Explaining clearly what is to be done. "Checking" answers at the end of an activity. Making sure everyone participates. Controlling the time of each game.

1.The Lines Quiz

3-Brainstorm Race
Divide the group into teams of four. Explain that you will give them a topic. They will have 30 seconds (or however long works best for your group) to brainstorm and list as many ideas as they can come up with. --they cannot speak. Each student must write his or her ideas on the board or paper youve provided. The team with the most ideas is the winner. Ask the winning team to present its ideas. Ask remaining teams to add any ideas the winning team missed and to correct any mistakes the winning team may have made.

5- Story Concertina
Fold A3 paper like a fan.

Give The beginning of a story to the class.

A student in each group starts writing on one piece of the folded paper without showing the rest of the group. After they finish all group read their story aloud . The team who has The most reasonable story is the winner

5- Hot and Cold

Choose one student from each group ( class divided into 4

groups ) to go outside the class.

Hide some vocabulary flashcards in different areas in the class. Invite the students to come inside the classroom ,they have to know where the cards with the guidance of the rest of his\her group , if the student is near the card, they say Hot .If she is far, they say Cold. They keep guiding her until she finds the card. When she finds the card, she has to put the word in a sentence

6-Four Square Vocabulary

Divide your class into four or five groups , then give them this paper , they will like it .

Word

Opposite

Definition

In a sentence

1-Whisper Circles
Notes: 1.Divide the students into groups of 7 to 10. 2.Choose one leader from each group. Give the leaders the card which has the sentence "It takes about six seconds for something you drink to reach your stomach." Ask him to memorize the sentence, go back to his group and whisper what he has read on the card to the person on his right. Each person will whisper the sentence to the next person and the sentence can be said only once. The last person will say the sentence out loud. If the sentence is the same with the one written on the card, that group wins.

Aim: Speaking (using a whisper), pronunciation, listening, grammar (it takes ..to do ...)

3-Spelling Race