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Get them talking! (1) N the modern communicative classroom this is,of course, our most important goal. Gone are the days when teachers were content to get their pupils shouting out in chorus their ‘pattern drills’. One of the most effective ways of ‘getting them talking’ is with the help of board games. What’s more-the preparation is quite simple. Just photocopy your board game. If you do not wish to make coloured print-outs , then make photocopies with coloured paper. If you haven’t got a die or counters then you can easily make a substitutewith a pencil. Ask your pupils to take a six-sided pencil and write the numbers 1-6 on the sides.The players just roll the pencil and move their ‘counters’ the number of spaces indicated. Small coins, coloured paper clips, pencil- sharpeners, tops of pens, rubbers, etc can be used as counters. An alternative is to use a two Euro coin: the pupils spin the coin and move their counters one or two spaces, accordingly.To ‘get them talking’ tell the class the rules of the game and then give each group of three to five pupils a ‘board’ , die and counters.The rules are: The youngest pupil in the group throws the die (rolls the pencil, spins the coin) and moves his counter onto the corresponding square. He then has to answer the question. If he says nothing or speaks mainly in German, he has to move back two spaces., if he lands on FREE QUESTION, the player before her can ask her a question relating to the subject. The first player to land on FINISH has won and can take the little sweet which , I’m sure you have put there!I have included three such communicative games for various levels. Board games are great for practising structures or vocabulary, too. There is hardly any aspect of English vocabulary and structures which with a little thought cannot be put into the form of a board game. with board games. is designed for practising the simple past/ simple present,etc.) Let’s use it for the simple past:The pupil throws, say a ‘two’ and places her counter on ‘play football’. From the middle of the board she can see that she has to form a negative sentence. “Did you play football yesterday?” The others decide if her sentence is right and if so, she can stay on ‘2’. The next player throws a ‘ six’, places his counter on ‘phone Tim’ and forms a question: “Did you phone Tim yesterday?” The other players listen carefully to the sentences formed and if they notice a mistake (*I played not football yesterday”,* “Phoned you Tim yesterday”,etc. ) the player has to return to the original place (go back three spaces, etc.). The first player to complete two rounds is the winner.With the appropriate ‘time words’ (’tomorrow’, ‘since Tuesday,’ ‘at the moment,’ ‘every day,’, etc.) this game can be used for practising positive, negative and interrogative sentences in other tenses. I’ve also included another version of this game for students learning business English. is designed to ‘drill’ the difference between the simple past and the present perfect. A coin is placed on ‘yet’ in the centre of the board. Let’s say that the first player throws a ‘three’.She places her counter on ‘go hang-gliding’ and forms the appropriate sentence: “I haven’t gone hang-gliding yet.” Now the coin is placed on ‘since last year’ and the next player has to form a sentence with this expression. If he has thrown a ‘six’, then his sentence would be: “I haven’t (she hasn’t,etc) eaten fish and chips since last year.” The coin is now placed on ‘last summer.’ The next player has, of course, to be careful to use the right tense: “I played chess 3 4 5 I The tense game The tense game ? ? X X 13 10 Start and Finish 11 12 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 4 8 3 5 6 7 9 20 21 play football wear a hat go to America phone Tim take a photo read a book have a party watch a film see a camel write a letter play table- tennis drink coke drink coke ride a bike drink tea go to london eat a banana wear jeans get up early play the piano buy a magazine 2 do woodwork play go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 volleyball hang- gliding play go darts rambling fish & chips see a royal wedding do see a go watch a cricket match (go/be) to America window shopping ghost weight- training eat since l ast summer since ... yet for the l ast 3 years yesterday A week already l ast year Friday ago 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1

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Get them talking! (1) N the modern communicative classroom this is,of course, our most important goal. Gone are thedays when teachers were content to get their pupils shouting out in chorus their ‘pattern drills’. One ofthe most effective ways of ‘getting them talking’ is with the help of board games. What’s more-the preparation is quite simple. Just photocopy your board game. If you do not wish to make coloured print-outs , then make photocopies with coloured paper. If you haven’t got a die or counters then you can easily make a substitutewith a pencil. Ask your pupils to take a six-sided pencil and write the numbers 1-6 on the sides.The players just roll the pencil and move their ‘counters’ the number of spaces indicated. Small coins, coloured paper clips, pencil-sharpeners, tops of pens, rubbers, etc can be used as counters.

An alternative is to use a two Euro coin: the pupils spin the coin and move their counters one or two spaces,accordingly.To ‘get them talking’ tell the class the rules of the game and then give each group of three to five pupils a ‘board’ , die and counters.The rules are: The youngest pupil in the group throws the die (rollsthe pencil, spins the coin) and moves his counter onto the corresponding square. He then has to answer thequestion. If he says nothing or speaks mainly in German, he has to move back two spaces., if he lands onFREE QUESTION, the player before her can ask her a question relating to the subject. The first player toland on FINISH has won and can take the little sweet which , I’m sure you have put there!I have included threesuch communicative games for various levels. Board games are great for practising structures or vocabulary, too. There is hardly any aspect of English vocabulary and structures which with a little thought cannot be put into the form of a board game.with board games. is designed for practising the simple past/ simple present,etc.) Let’s use it for the simple past:The pupil throws, say a ‘two’ and places her counter on ‘play football’. From the middle of the board she can see that she has to form a negative sentence. “Did you play football yesterday?” The others decide if her sentence is right and if so, she can stay on ‘2’. The next player throws a ‘ six’, places his counter on ‘phone Tim’ and forms a question: “Did you phone Tim yesterday?” The other players listen carefully to the sentences formed and if they notice a mistake (*I played not football yesterday”,* “Phoned you Tim yesterday”,etc. ) the player has to return to the original place (go back three spaces, etc.). The first player to complete two rounds is the winner.With the appropriate ‘time words’ (’tomorrow’, ‘since Tuesday,’ ‘at the moment,’ ‘every day,’, etc.) this game can be used for practising positive, negative and interrogative sentences in other tenses. I’ve also included another version of this game for students learning business English. is designed to ‘drill’ the difference betweenthe simple past and the present perfect. A coin is placed on ‘yet’ inthe centre of the board. Let’s say that the first player throws a ‘three’.She places her counter on ‘go hang-gliding’ and forms theappropriate sentence: “I haven’t gone hang-gliding yet.” Now the coin is placed on ‘since last year’ and the next player has to forma sentence with this expression. If he has thrown a ‘six’, then his sentence would be: “I haven’t (she hasn’t,etc) eaten fish and chipssince last year.” The coin is now placed on ‘last summer.’ The next player has, of course, to be careful to use the right tense: “I played chess

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last year.” If he says * I have played chess last year,” then he has to go back two spaces. The winner is the playerwho completes two rounds first. I have also included a similar game for colleagues teaching in the vocationalschool (electrical professions)One important aspect in the process of learning vocabularyis creating networks of words: Placing the words individually in our minds is seldom an effective wayof building up an active vocabulary.With the help of aboard game, pupils can be shown how many thousandsof sentences they can make with relatively few wordsand by connecting the words they can be anchored moreeffectively in their minds. The rules are simple:All theplayers throw the die and place their counters on theappropriate spaces.The next time they throw, however,they must form sentences with the new word before they can place their counter on the new space.Let’s imagine thatthe player has thrown a ‘one’ and placed his counter on‘Dan’. If she throws a ‘three’ the next time, he must forma sentence with the words ‘Dan’ and ‘Amanda’ (eg ‘DANis AMANDA’s sister’, ‘DAN likes AMANDA’, ‘DAN is with AMANDA’). If she throws a ‘three’, she could form the sentence: ‘DAN NEEDS a pencil,’ etc. It is also possible, of course,to construct the game so that at least some of the sentences contain a certain grammatical structure, as in the following example (based on the vocabulary and structures in GO AHEAD 9, Units 1 and 2 (Cornelsen, 2006): “The APPRENTICE is KEEN ON playing cards.” “ It’s WORTH going to the HARBOUR.” “The MAYOR is LOOKING FORWARD to eating fish and chips” “The WAITRESS DOESN’T MIND working late.”, etc., Etc. In the next example (from FOCUS ON SUCCESS, Unit 5, Cornelsen, 2006) some of the sentences that the pupils make will be complex ones: “ALTHOUGH he worked OVERTIME, he didn’t earn much more money.” “DUE TO increased INVESTMENTS they increased the productivity.” “DESPITE the high WAGES, he didn’t like the job.” It is advisable to photocopy the games onto a transparency and do a few rounsd (possibly as a team game) in the class first,so that your pupils are completely familiar with the rules. I have included a few ‘empty’ games, so that colleagues can make their own board games, using the structuresand vocabulary that they are dealing with. Thosecolleagues who are interested in using board ganmes intheir lessons will find the two books written by the authorand Rolf-Dieter Preller worth looking at:The Fun Factor(!17) - with board games for practising vocabulary,‘some’ and ‘any’, the tenses, adverbs and adjectives,etc., and The Pleasure Principle ( !19) - with board gameson comparisons,holidays, the family, etc. Dear Colleagues,I hope that you and your pupils enjoy the board games and find them useful.Bernard [email protected]/3502

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FinishWhere is the sports centre

(or youth club) in your town or village

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is your room ?

What day of the

week is it ?

Where does your uncle live? How old is your mum or dad?

What music do you like? What sports do you play?What sports or games do

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Do you have a pet? What is your favourite colour? What are yo

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Do you think boxing should b

e banned?What ca

nbe done a

bout doping in sport?Which sportsperson

do you admire and why

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an interesting book you’ve read.

Tell us about

your father’s

or mother’s hobbies.

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sit and why?What are

the negative effects of tourism?What ar

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is the best football team in your o

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programme

you don’t like.

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advantages and disadvantages of skiing?

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FinishWould longer prison sentenc

es help to reduce crimeDo women have equal righ

ts in the working worldAre professional sportsmen paid too much

How could your town or village be improved

What are the

advantages of

being the eldest

child in the family?

What must a parent do, or not

do, to be a good

father or mother

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on children ?

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advantages and

disadvantages of alternative energy forms ?

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Should smoking be

forbidden at our school?

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traffic stuation in our town

sbe improve

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limit on motorways

a good idea?

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reasons for the

mass unemploy

ment in the BRD? What are th

eadvantages

and disadvantages

of mass tourism?

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do differently if you were a teacher? What make

s ateacher a g

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cher?

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residential homes for old people

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men have to do military or community service?

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tter:military ser

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explain the large

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ers in Europe?What can other coun

tries learn from Germany?

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