Workshop Outcomes - By the end of the workshop you will:
- Have explored using games in the classroom
- Be more aware of the issues related to choice of games
- Explored ways of exploiting and using songs and chants in the classroom
- What is a game?
- Why do we use games in the
- classroom?
What is a game? - A game is
- usually competitive
- rule governed
- goal defined
- has closure
- and is engaging
Why use games? - Games are fun, and children learn well through play
- They create an enjoyable environment
- Games provide a real means for communication
- They can be task based or topic based
- They stimulate the use of language rather than the analysis of language
- It is learning through doing
Games - Let’s try out some games…
Songs - What types of songs and chants do you
- feel are most effective in helping
- children learn?
For example… - Songs and chants that can generate TPR
- Ones that can be used as classroom signals: hello, goodbye, quiet time, clean-up time etc
- Ones that can be used to mime a story to
- Ones that are exploitable in terms of visual prompts
- Songs with repeated lines
- Topic based songs
- Ones with language chunks
- Can you think of any examples?
Songs - Now let’s try out some songs…
Adapting songs - Like storytelling, it is okay to adapt songs and chants in the class to suit level, language area you are looking at.
- With songs it is not always necessary to have the music. You just need a familiar tune to exploit and invent your own words to.
- It is not always necessary to stick to the rhyme of original if this is not your objective of your lesson.
5 Little Monkeys - Five Little monkeys jumping on the bed
- One fell off and bumped his head
- Mummy called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
- ‘No more monkeys, jumping on the bed!’
- Four little monkeys…......
- Three little monkeys…...
- 2 little monkeys….
- 1 little monkey…....
Over to you… - How can you adapt the chant?
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