Games for Language Learning /
Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, and Michael Buckby.
- 3rd ed.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- xiii, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers .
- Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers .
Includes index.
Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Ice breakers and warmers CARE AND SHARE 1.1 Learning names Variation I Getting to know each other 1.2 Stand in a line 1.3 Pass on a sound 1.4 Questions and questionnaires Variation 1 Questions about you Variation 2 Predict your partner's answers Variation 3 Yes/No questions to the teacher Variation 4 Questions to the teacher: what’s the truth? 1.5 Find someone who… Variation 1 Things in common 1.6 Match the person to the information 1.7 Topics to talk about Variation 1 Something nice which happened Variation 2 A special object Variation 3 A special number Variation 4 A random word Variation 5 A colour 1.8 All the words you know 1.9 Proverbs 1.10 Jog! Jog! 1.11 Visualisation 1.12 Lost in the fog 2. Mainly speaking DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 2.1 Slowly reveal a picture 2.2 Liar! DESCRIBE 2.3 Describe and draw Variation 1 Describe and draw in pairs 2.4 Describe and identify Variation 1 Describe and identify a picture Variation 2 Describe and identify a detail in a picture Variation 3 Describe and identify a conversation in a picture Variation 4 Describe and identify thoughts in a picture CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP 2.5 Two pictures Variation 1 Three words 2.6 What’s the difference? Variation 1 Comparing pictures 2.7 Find a connection REMEMBER 2.8 What can you remember? Variation 1 what were they wearing? Variation 2 What is my neighbour wearing? Variation 3 Can you remember the picture? CREATE 2.9 Stories with 10 pictures Variation 1 Adding to a story Variation 2 Silly news reports Variation 3 Tour and tell 2.10 Question stories Variation 1 Question stories based on pictures Variation 2 Question stories based on objects Variation 3 Question stories based on a single word or phrase 2.11 What can you do with it? 2.12 What would you take? 2.13 A sound poem 3. Mainly listening DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY 3.1 Listen and draw 3.2 Act out a story IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 3.3 Listen for the difference Variation 1 what’s wrong 3.4 Repeat it if it is true 3.5 Which picture is it? Variation 1 Someone or something you know 3.6 Bingo Variation 1 Bingo definitions Variation 2 Bingo Rhyming words Variation 3 Learner Bingo grid ORDER 3.7 Most important – least important 3.8 Put the story in order CREATE 3.9 Visualise and describe 4. Mainly writing IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 4.1 True and false essays Variation 1 True and false sentences Variation 2 True and false dictation Variation 3 True and false definitions DESCRIBE 4.2 Draw the bank robbers Variation 1 Describe from memory Variation 2 Describe an object CREATE 4.3 Bouncing Dialogue 4.4 Bouncing stories 4.5 Bouncing letters 4.6 Ambiguous picture story 4.7 Rewrite a fairy story 4.8 Story consequences Variation 1 New Year’s resolutions 4.9 Five-line poem 4.10 What’s in his pocket? 4.11 Speaking to the world 4.12 Create an island 4.13 Create a soap opera 5. Mainly reading DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY 5.1 What’s my mime? IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 5.2 Telepathy (texts) Variation 1 Guess the preferences of others 5.3 Flashing a text 5.4 Texts word by word CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP 5.5 Pelmanism (reading) ORDER 5.6 Jumbled texts Variation 1 Stand in order 5.7 Proverbs REMEMBER 5.8 Running dictation 5.9 Memorise and draw 5.10 Pass the message 6. Mainly vocabulary and spelling IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 6.1 Feely game Variation 1 Touch and describe Variation 2 Identify an object and its owner Variation 3 Identify by listening to a voice Variation 4 Identify by listening to an object Variation 5 Identify by smelling Variation 6 Identify by tasting Variation 7 Identify by looking Variation 8 Building up a picture Variation 9 Strip of a magazine picture 6.2 I spy 6.3 Silent speaking 6.4 Stories in ten words Variation 1 Key words in a topic Variation 2 Word webs 6.5 Mime and guess Variation 1 Personal lists 6.6 Guess what I am drawing CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP 6.7 Word associations Variation 1 Personal lists 6.8 Odd-one-out Variation 1 They’re all odd! Variation 2 Somebody must go! ORDER 6.10 Hangman spelling Variation 1 Words with letters in common REMEMBER 6.11 A long and growing list 6.12 Kim’s memory game Variation 1 Numbers and plural forms Variation 2 Adjectives and comparisons Variation 3 Containers Variation 4 Actions in the past Variation 5 Describe and compare 6.13 Would you make a good witness? CREATE 6.14 Change the story 7. Mainly grammar DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY 7.1 Simon says Variation 1 Film director Variation 2 Magicians, hypnotists and robots Variation 3 Forfeits 7.2 Can you stand on one leg? 7.3 Miming Variation 1 Present continuous and present simple Variation 2 Present simple Variation 3 Simple past Variation 4 Past continuous Variation 5 Past continuous interrupted by the past simple Variation 6 Present perfect Variation 7 Present perfect continuous Variation 8 Future with going to Variation 9 Future in the past Variation 10 Future in the past and simple past IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 7.4 Drama of sounds Variation 1 Mystery action and person 7.5 Telepathy (pictures) 7.6 Random sounds 7.7 Dramatised sequence of sounds 7.8 Paper fortune-teller Variation 1 Inventing fortunes for friends 7.9 Why did they say that? 7.10 Objects in a box 7.11 Where’s the mouse Variation 1 Hiding place 7.12 Twenty questions 7.13 Flashing a picture Variation 1 Flashing a text 7.14 How long is it? Variation 1 How wide is it? Variation 2 How big is it? DESCRIBE 7.15 Riddles Variation 1 Riddle and write Variation 2 Riddles and questions CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP 7.16 Pelmanism (grammar) Variation 1 Phrasal verbs Variation 2 Knowledge quiz 7.17 Bingo grammar Variation 1 Bingo parts of speech ORDER 7.18 Delete a word 7.19 Word by word REMEMBER 7.20 Picture the scene Variation 1 Picture in groups Variation 2 Clothes Variation 3 A mini drama 7.21 Kim’s memory game (Variation 6 and 7) Variation 6 Present perfect, past simple, prepositions Variation 7 Present perfect and comparisons CREATE 7.22 Alibis 7.23 Passing on a story Variation 1 Remembering and continuing a story 7.24 Interrupting a story 7.25 Pattern poems 8. Solo games 8.1 Folding vocabulary book 8.2 Cards 8.3 Match the cards 8.4 Match the halves 8.5 Word snakes 8.6 Odd-one-out 8.7 Different groups of words 8.8 Mind map 8.9 Word sun 8.10 Steps 8.11 Add a word 8.12 Add a sentence 8.13 Favourites 8.14 Lose the vowels Variation 1 Remember the vowels 8.15 Write a crazy story 8.16 Write a dramatic dialogue 8.17 Be dramatic 8.18 Make a crossword Index
"If you think games are just for young learners, think again. Games provide meaningful and enjoyable language practice at all levels and for all age groups. They can be used to practise any of the skills - speaking, listening, reading and writing - at any stage of the learning process, from controlled repetition through guided practice to free expression. This completely revised edition of the 'classic' title Games for Language Learning has been restructured to enable busy teachers to navigate it with ease and select the activities most suitable for each of their classes. The games can be integrated easily into existing coursework. There is a new section on solo games for independent learners and the games have been selected to cater for a variety of learning styles." (Book Cover)
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Languages, Modern--Study and teaching. Educational games.