Games in the classroom??????????????

To make my students participate in the class was the most difficult challenge I had to overcome. As I said in my last entry, the first thing I did, in order to overcome it,  was to make  my students aware of the purpose of the activities; however, it did not work as I expected since after that, half of the students still remained very passive. So one class, I decided not to bring any warm-up or activity to the class; what I did was just to go straight to grammar points and to assign them a great deal of written work, as they were accustomed to.

 

Suddenly, some students asked me “Teacher, aren’t we going to play any game today? When they told me that, I realized that they were expecting me to bring something new and interesting to the class, but I told them “ummmm I thought you dislike them because you do not participate”  “ Yes, we like them bring more and we’ll participate!” they answered.

So the next class, I brought them a mimic game, and I’m really proud to say that most of them participated even the girls who were  used to be just making-up their faces.

Through this situation, I could realized that using games or warm-ups helped me to make my students participate in class and to create a good atmosphere and a community in the classroom; besides that, using games in my classes, helped me to teach my students in a more funny and creative way. I realized that my students were more willing to learn and participate in class when I brought a game to the class. So using games in the classroom is very important. We will see why in my next entry.