English Games For Children

Last Standing Student/Spelling Bee

2011-03-22T04:09:00.002+07:00

Previous game: Card Games

Procedures:

1. The students stand up and make a big circle. Meanwhile, Teacher stands in the middle of the standing students.

2. Teacher says a word in English, such as "Watermelon" and each student spells one letter correctly.

Teacher : W A T E R M E L O N

    Student 1: W
    Student 2: A
    Student 3: T
    Student 4: .......

3. Continue until all letter are spelled. If one word is finished, Teacher can say other words to play again.

4. If a student spell it incorrectly or makes a mistake in spelling, she or he is out of the circle.

5. The last standing student is the winner of the game.

English children game: Cards

2011-02-01T05:46:00.001+07:00

Previous English Games For Children <---- Blindfolded questions

Procedures:

Use playing cards, and play any card games.

Write the number of cards on the board (e.g. 10, 9, 8, ...) in a list.
Next to each number, write a words you would like the children to read or practice (e.g. 10 is big, 9 is small).
When the children play on eof the cards during the games, they either read the corresponding words, or make a sentence using it. For example, whe a child plays a 10, she could say Elephants are big.
Start with the easy words, and while they are playing, change some of the words, gradually making them more difficult and introducing ne words.

Note:

The game usually works better if every card does not have a corresponding word so that the folow of the game is nto broken too much.

English children game: Blindfold questions

2011-01-31T07:33:00.003+07:00

Previous English Games For Children <--------- Blindfold

Procedures:

One child is blindfolded and the other children ask her questions such as, What color is your bag? or, Where's the green pen? The blindfolded child has to guess the answer.
The children then take turns to be blindfolded.

Alternative:

Before the activity, interesting objects or flash cards are placed around the room. The other children ask the bolindfolded where some of these things are.

English children game: Blindfold

2011-01-31T07:21:00.004+07:00

Previous Games <---- Bingo

Procedures:

Divide the children into teams, and get one child from each team to draw animals on the board, then draw a target around each animal with points in each circle of the target.
Give one child from each team a blindfold and a piece of chalk or board marker.
The other children on each team call out instructions such as left, right, and go straight to get their member to the board and touch the target with the chalk or board marker.

Note:

We can also add soft obstacles between the children and the target. This creates a need for language such as go around the cushion, walk solowly and stop!

English children games: Bingo

2011-01-29T17:00:00.000+07:00

Previous games <--- Basketball

Instructions:

Each of children is given or draws a bingo card.
One of the children (or the teacher) dictates words and the children choose which square to write them in.
Each of words that were dictated is them put into a box or hat.
The child who dictated the letters, or the other children, draws the words from teh box or hat one at a time, and the children mark them off on their cards.
A child who gets a whole row, column, or diagonal, calls out, Bingo!

English children game: Basketball

2011-01-29T16:35:00.000+07:00

Previous games <--- Balloon Relay and Banana

Instructions:

Divide the children into two or more teams (in a one - to - one class the teacher is one team).
The team take turns to throw a soft dice into a box or basket. if the dice goes in the basket, the team gets 10 points. If it misses, the team gets the points on the dices.
Before throwing the dices, a child or team performs a language task, such as identifying or reading a flash card. This game works well for review, consolidation, or learning new cards that mixed in with familiar cards.

Balloon Relay and Banana

2011-01-13T22:32:00.003+07:00

Balloon Relay

Instruction:

One child from each team stands at one end of the room and has a set of cards. The other children are lined up in teams at the other end of the rooms, opposite their team member who has the cards.
The child with the cards turn over the top card and asks a questions that relates to the cards (e.g. What is this?).
The first child facing her answers the quetions, and races towars her while bouncing a balloom on her head. She either has to bouce the balloon into a box, or head it to the children who asked the questions.
The child who asked the questions then hurries to the back of her team, giving the balloon to the front child in her team.
The child who bounced the balloon now has the cards and asks the next questions.
The first team to ask and answer questions an agreed number of times wins.

Banana

One child sits in a chair and has to answer, bananas, to every question without changing her facial expression.
The other children take turns to ask questions and try and make her smile or make another facial expression.

Badges

2011-01-13T21:45:00.002+07:00

Instructions:

The children draw "feeling badges". Each badge illustrates an emotion such as a happy or sad face.
They then place the badge down on the table or floor.
One child picks up a badge, puts it on and makes appropriate sentence, such as I'm happy, and puts an appropriate facial expression or mime the feeling.
The children then wear the badges and play a game.
Each child speaks in a way that fits the badge she is wearing. For example, if the children are playing a flash card game, the children with the "happy" badge speaks very happily when identifying a flash card, and the child with "sad" badge speaks very sadly.

The children can also perform other langauge tasks sucha as count from 20 to 1, or say the months of the year with voices and expressions that fit their badges. The tasks can be drawn from a pile of flash cards, assigned by the teacher, or decided by the children.

Animal Mime

2011-01-13T21:21:00.003+07:00

Instructions:

One child reads a card that contains a sentence or phrase which includes an animal (e.g. a hungry rabbit, an elephant eating a banana).
She then mimes the phrase or sentence and the other children guess what it is.
She can either mime each part separately (e.g. first hungry the rabbit), or the whole phrase or sentence at one time.
The children take turns to do the activity.

Alien Race

2011-01-09T13:30:00.003+07:00

Procedures:

One child (or teacher) stands in front of the class with some cards that have words or sentences on them.
She secretly chooses one of the cards, counts how many letters there are in the word or sentence, and draws a dash for each letter on the board, leaving a space between each word.
The other children take turn, either individually or as team members, to guess the spelling of the words.each child calls out a letter (with phonic pronounciation), and if the words contains that letter, the child in front of of the class writes the letter in all spaces where it appears in the word or sentences.
If the word doesn't containthe letter, one part of an alien is drawn on the board. The alien could have a body, a head, four legs, and two tentacles, and the aim of the game is for a team to spell the words or sentences before their alien is completely drawn.
When the words are used that the children have not encountered before, the child in front of the class has cards with words on one slide, and pictures on the other.
When the children playing game have choosen the correct language for the spaces on the board, the child wth the cards reveals the picture to the class.

Games Bank for children class

2011-01-09T12:20:00.002+07:00

Below is a list of 100 games for children class. These games can be used by teachers for a variety language targets, such as vocabulary review and introduction of new English structures. Some involve the children playing games actively (e.g. balloon relay), while others have the children writing things on a notepad or bingo grid (e.g, Phonic Bingo).

Remember that every class is different. So, A game that is popular with one group of children may not be popular with another. We need to enter a new class with a variety of games at our disposal. By using Games Bank provided by this blog, you can have a variety of games. All games are taken from some sources; Teaching English To Children in Asia, Fun with english games and others.

100 games will be divided into 4 posting and each has 25 numbers. below is the first 25 games.

1. Alien race

2. Animal Mime

3. Badges

4. Baloon Relay

5. Banana

6. Baseball

7. Basketball

8. Bingo

9. Blindfold

10. Blindfold Questions

11. cards

12. Car race

13. Cassette Player

14. Chains

15. Chopstick Spelling

16. Concentration

17. Counting cards

18. Crosswords

19. Cycling chase

20. Dangerous Aliens

21. Describing people

22. Do what i say

23. Draw a dog

24. Find someone who

25. Find the difference

See U in next 25 more games

About e-games

2011-01-09T07:42:00.003+07:00

English Games For Children is created for Teachers who would like to teach English to Children., especially children from Non English Speaking Countries, such as Indonesia, Japan and Korea. The games written in this blog are suitable for Elementary school children.

Games are taken from some of my teaching english to children books, such game banks of Teaching English To Children in Asia (TECA) by David Paul, and Fun with games. I and fellow teachers have applied almost all games in TECA Books and most of them have worked well.

If you want to get complete game banks for children, you had better buy the books

I don't sell the boook, but If you have any questions on how to apply it in your class, just send us e-mail to admin@edisamsuri.com.

How is game applied?

2011-01-09T06:39:00.001+07:00

Games are one of the best ways of teaching children, but they are not the only way. Many children seem happy and concentrate hard when sitting down by themselves with a pencil and notebook. Therefore, a teacher should apply quiet and lively games to meet the child's learning style. The most important point to be considered when applying a game is the language target. When it is dealing with core language target it is good for the teachers to apply game and have the most fun way. In such away, the child will learn effectively.

There are many procedures in applying games. It very much depends on the kind of game or activity. In general the steps of teaching will last as follows

1. Model the game

2. Have student play the game

3. Take part in the game or step back and let the children play

4. Giving score

5. Cheat creatively

6. Give all children a chance

What is game?

2011-01-09T06:36:00.000+07:00

Game is a technique of teaching in which students do some activities in relax, fun and sometimes in competitive way. There two kinds of games; Games for learning and games for fun. Games for learning are focusing on a certain language target. The students playing the game and the language used are directed to the learning target. For example, in Blindfold game the children are playing and using certain expression such as; giving direction (turn left, turn right, one step ahead, etc), giving instructions (stop, put your hand on the board, etc). The other game is just for fun like moving chairs, hide and seek, etc) in which, the use of English is very limited and the purpose is having fun.

Why teaching english through games?

2011-01-09T06:18:00.000+07:00

Most children see life in terms of games. As teachers, we need to recognize and go along with the basic fact, and give games a central role in our classes. If learning itself feels like a game, and if the children feel they are discovering a fascinating new world of English through games they would also enjoy outside the classroom, it is much more likely the children will take what they learn home with them and use it in their daily lives. Games also provide a nonthreatening environment for coping with new learning. When children having fun, they are more likely to take risks, make mistakes without having feelings of failure, and try to overcome their initial feelings of confusion when they encounter new words and patterns.

A child who encounters a new English word, expression, or pattern while she is immersed in a game, is far more motivated to learn it and much more likely to internalize it than a child who receives the new knowledge from her teacher verbally. The purpose of applying games technique is to provide fun learning so that students will learn unconsciously.