AUCTION GAME, TIC-TAC-TOE, ACTING OUT: Learning through games

Games are a nice way to learn English. They can be used to review vocabulary and even literature. 


- ACUTION GAME (used for literature). Post-treatment. activity.
In this game, in groups, students are given sentences from the literature piece they have read. They have a pre-set quantity of "money" and they have to say whether their sentence is true or false or if it has mistakes or it's correct, and bet according to it. 


The team that has more money by the end of the game is the winning team. 




- TIC-TAC-TOE: (used for literature/vocabulary). Post-treatment.

This game is very popular and it can be used with words taken from the text. The class must be divided in two teams. The teacher has to prepare a card with words from the text, definitions, phonetics, etc. and the students will have to guess the word of the definition, a synonym, etc. If they guess it they get the point. The aim is that they get three points in a row. In the blackboard the points are shown like this: 

- ACTING OUT: Post-treatment


This can be very funny. The students in pairs or groups have to invent a dialogue from the piece of literature given or memorise it and act it out. This activity may not be suitable for all the students since shy students may feel reluctant about it.