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    This document provides guidance on using games in the English language classroom, particularly for teenagers. It discusses how games can make learning more enjoyable and memorable by incorporating fun, competition, and variety. Some example games recommended for teenagers include noughts and crosses, fishing for English, an A-Z race, mime games, Kim's game, a circle game, triple pelmanisms, and a making sentences game. The document emphasizes mixing up student groups and ensuring all students feel included to promote cooperation over competition.

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    This document provides guidance on using games in the English language classroom, particularly for teenagers. It discusses how games can make learning more enjoyable and memorable by incorporating fun, competition, and variety. Some example games recommended for teenagers include noughts and crosses, fishing for English, an A-Z race, mime games, Kim's game, a circle game, triple pelmanisms, and a making sentences game. The document emphasizes mixing up student groups and ensuring all students feel included to promote cooperation over competition.

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    Number one for English language teachers

    Teenagers: Games
    A guide to using games in the classroom with lots of games and activities. Many of these games can be used by all ages.

    Games make us laugh. We all like to laugh. Pleasure is very motivating. Laughter makes us more awake and relaxed –
    and not only I say so, so does the Department of Cognitive Psychology, University College, London.

    Laughter raises blood pressure just long enough to increase oxygen and blood supply to tissues. It alters the breathing
    cycle so that more oxygen is inhaled and carbon dioxide exhaled. Muscles throughout the body tense and relax during
    laughter in exactly the same way as with stress reduction techniques such as yoga.

    If we find something funny, it is often memorable as it strikes a resonant chord within us.
    Many games are competitive and while I do not like the idea of making children feel like failures when they do
    not win, team games promote co-operation and if teams are regularly mixed up, everyone’s a winner.
    Some games rather than being amusing, encourage us to use our knowledge of the world around us rather than
    linguistic knowledge, which brings the world into our classroom.
    If lessons are long or daily we need to have plenty of variety, while still focussing on English language
    development – games provide variety.
    Games can be used as a ‘carrot’ with less motivated students. The promise of a game at the end of class may
    encourage them to complete less inspiring activities well.

    There’s a game there

    Many activities can be made into games by making them competitive. For example course books usually have grammar
    exercises. I get my students to work on these in ‘teams’. The teams with most right get a point and we collect points on
    the board during a lesson, so that points from later games and exercises can be added. The team with the most points
    at the end is the winner. I rarely give prizes (teachers are not rich!) but the joy of winning is enough. Again I must
    stress that I mix up teams form one lesson to the next so that the same students are not always the winners!

    The games

    Not all may be suitable with all ages, especially with the under eight year olds. You know your students and what their
    language level is, but don’t underestimate what they are capable of especially when it’s presented as a game.

    Games for teenagers


    Teenagers: game 1: noughts and crosses
    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 2: fishing for English

    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 3: A - Z race

    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 4: mime games


    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 5: Kim's game


    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 6: circle game

    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 7: triple pelmanisms


    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

    Teenagers: game 8: making sentences

    Type: Game

    Games to play with teenagers in the English classroom.

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