English should be fun so how about having some fun with your friends and
learning English together how can you do this with English games they're great
fun and a great way to improve your language so fancy trying them great
let's go
I'm Deirdre Nicholas your personal language coach either through my youtube
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English fluency now today's lesson is for English learners on their own as
well as groups and for teachers because many of these games can be adapted to
for use in the classroom as well as at home and with groups of friends so the
first and most important question can games help you to learn English or the
short answer is yes absolutely and they're fun too research has shown that
different types of games such as video games vocabulary games and team games
can help you learn English faster they improve overall comprehension and
understanding they improve linguistic skills you'll be able to remember more
they will enhance your language skills and development and they make learning
fun and exciting so as we say in England what's not to love now obviously you
can't use games on their own to study English but they can certainly be part
of a combined way of learning so how do they improve English then so of course a
lot of it is to do with practice in these games but also these games often
combine many of the linguistic skills certainly you'll be speaking reading and
listening and even writing for some games video games improve reading and
comprehension skills and vocabulary and team games improve speaking and
vocabulary of course and the other really great thing is that you think
games to learn English removes the fear of making mistakes because the whole
English learning environment is much more relaxed so let's get started I'm
going to give you seven great English games that you might like to try
but one cards game great game to develop vocabulary and get you thinking make
some cards with different random nouns verbs and adjectives one on each card
for example my brother my uncle likes eating love smelling bicycle cats slimy
insects then either on your own or in a class or a group try to create funny
sentences out of these mixture of cards for example it could be cats love
smelling slimy bicycles the second game is 20 objects this is a great one to
test memory vocabulary and it involves writing put 20 objects on your desk or
on a table if you're at home and get your students to look at them for one
minute then cover the items over and get each person to write out as many of the
objects as they can remember in English if you're in a class you could get
students to self Curtis self correct your peer correct or maybe even in a
group of friends you can give a prize to the person that remembers remembers the
most and spells them correctly fun random letters
people really love this one it's great as a filler at the end of a lesson or if
you're at home with children it helps them to be a much less bored get your
children or your students if you're in class to write write down six columns
draw six columns on a piece of paper and write six categories at the top now
these are usually related to things that you've been studying or perhaps if
you're at home things that your children are interested in they could be things
like food cities countries animals and so on then you select a random letter
let's say nests and students or your children write down one word in each
category for that letter so for example if it was food it might be spinach on
cities maybe San Francisco countries Spain animal snake and so on and repeat
with as many new letters as you like in as many times as you like it's really
good for nouns and vocabulary now of course a great one to encourage speaking
and communication is my language for sure odds now this works best for a
small group or divide the class and create a competition it gets people up
and about and moving and motivated you write down words on little bits of paper
for students to choose verbs always work particularly well divide your class or
your group into two teams and have someone from one team act out the word
the other team have to guess what the word is you'd be surprised at how much
English is needed for this because obviously all the guessing has to be
done in English number five pictionary
now you may well have heard of this you can do the actual game at home but if
you want to do it in class you could do a whiteboard pictionary version divide
your class or your group into two teams and record their points on the board
write a word on a piece of paper and then get one person from team a to come
up and draw the word on the board their team has to see if they can guess what
the word actually is by the drawing and they have to suggest it all in English
of course number six scavenger hare now this works really well at home even
amongst groups of adults but definitely with your own children you give a person
a list of things to find they could just take a photo of it when they found it
this is a really great one if you're out for a walk perhaps with your family or
going to the shops and my last game number seven you can do this one with
just two people if you like or a larger one a larger group which you can divide
into teams one person hides something something small maybe a pen and the
other person has to find it the person that's that's hidden the object has to
tell the other person how close they are to finding the object so there's lots of
speaking and listening and communication going on in English of course language
such as you're really close or you're going the wrong way that's good you're
close now can be used if you'd like me to do another video on more games for
you to learn English just let me know comment below this video because I'd
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