Language Learning Games, Song and Rhymes

LANGUAGE LEARNING GAMES

This afternoon I've studied several techniques how to teach students using games and songs.This material was delivered by Dinda's group which consist of Dinda herself, Yoga, Wana, and Ngurah in which Dinda as the simulator.


Through games and songs learners practice and internalize VOCAB, GRAMMAR, and STRUCTURES inductively. They acquire language unconsciously through the activities in the classroom in which the way is as same as they acquired their mother tongue. Through games, teacher can help the learners to increase their motivation in learning English. Because it creates less stressful atmosphere in learning and teaching process. Games also can strengthen student's language skills and social skills. In this case, the thing that is concerned is language learning should be ENJOYABLE.

What kind of games which can be applied?
NUMBER and LETTER GAMES
Bingo
Secret messages
Prices
Count again

WORD GAMES
Word sets
Word building
Card scrabble
My shopping basket
Anything to declare?
Sound chains
Letter chains
Word associations
The grammar focus game

SPEAKING GAMES
What's my line?
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Chain story

SONG and RHYMES

Ways of teaching songs and rhymes are:
The ostensive way
Translation
Cloze texts
Focus questions
True-false statements
Private study
Jigsaw listening
Disappearing texts
Dictation
Mixed modes of presentation
Demonstration procedures

Selected songs and rhymes:
The little Indian boys (the ostensive technique)
Mary had a little lamb (the cloze text technique)
Jack and Jill (the focus questions technique)
One, two, three four five (true or false statements or choice questions but not both)
If you are happy and you know it (mixed mode technique)

The words of other popular songs:
Ten green bottles
Baa baa black sheep
Old Macdonald had a farm
On top of old smoky
Here we go round the mulberry bush
This is the way we clean our teeth
The alphabet song
One man went to mow
The bear went over the mountain
For he's a jolly good fellow
London's burning
London bridge is falling down
Polly put the kettle on
She'll be coming round the mountain
Oh Susannah
Row, row, row your boat
The wheels on the bus

The words of other popular rhymes:
Humpty dumpty
Doctor foster
What are little girls made of?
Thirty days