UNIT 4

[SILVIA]

There are many games which teachers can use to make practice activities more interesting and motivating for students. Do you have any favourite games which you use to practise specific language items?

In my case they are younger, they love that I record them with my mobile phone to see them later (role-playing), I also play the tic-tac-toe game, they can choose box if they respond correctly. Sometimes, I put texts on the wall in English, they get up in turns, have to read and then explain to the group what they have read in order to fill the task among the whole group (cooperative work).

How do you try to make controlled practice activities more communicative and motivating for your learners?
The best is to work often in a small group, nowadays it is easy because with new technologies can learn with visual support. Students also create board games for what we have already seen

[Oksana]

There are many games which teachers can use to make practice activities more interesting and motivating for students. Do you have any favourite games which you use to practise specific language items?
I use different task like: fill in the gaps from the box, matching with pictures,and parts of the sentance in a whole sentance, when students look for their parts on the walls of the class, correction of mistakes, checking partner works, making sentances (when one started and second have to finish in a chain) or to finish the sentance with the number, which you have on the dice.

How do you try to make controlled practice activities more communicative and motivating for your learners?
To make it more communicative I personalize the topic, or make students to create tasks for their classmates, use communicative games with dice, and so on. Give students opportunity to discuss it in group, choose some interesting ideas, use reward system