The role of games in teaching english

 
METHODS: 
In order to make this game more fitting 
in a language classroom the teacher could ask 
the student to add something they like that 
starts with the same letter as their name, for 
example “my name is Anna and I love apples”. 
Another idea could be to have students add 
adjectives with the same letter as their names, 
for example “Sigga super” or “Anna awesome” 
and that way it teaches adjectives as well. For 
kids whose names begin with special Icelandic 
letters, the rules would have to be adjusted to 
some degree. A good idea could be to allow 
them to find adjectives that begin with the 
same letter as the second, or even third one in 
their name.
Group games - an example of a group 
game is the game “Fruit basket” which 
emphasizes listening, memory and reflexes, all 
of which are good and necessary skills to 
possess. The rules of this game are that 
participants sit in a circle and they all get a 
name of a certain fruit to “be”. One participant 
does not have a chair and has to stand in the 
middle. He then calls out a name of a fruit, for 
example an orange, and then all the students 
who are oranges have to stand up and switch 
seats. The one in the middle has to try and 
“steal” a seat while the others are switching 
and if he succeeds someone else will be left 
alone in the middle and gets the task of calling 

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out the name of a new fruit. This game could 
easily be augmented to suit different situations 
or to train some other vocabulary just by using 
other categories of words, for example clothes, 
names of relatives, or different types of food 
instead of fruits.
Physical games - an example of a 
physical game is “Walking the line” where