Teaching English at the primary school through games

by Christina Oparenko

School of Moshny

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”

Fred Rogers

CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG LEARNERS A child’s brain aged 5 years is 95% of adults one. Not all mental process are well – developed Imaginary thinking learn from examples Are not stable emotionally Are active and very mobile Have shot attention spans Are of different types of personality

WAYS OF GETTING CHILDREN INVOLVED IN LEARNING ENGLISH

THE BENEFITS OF GAMES

THE CRITERIA FOR CHOOSING GAMES to have an aim and purposeto be enjoyable and interestingto create a need for children to use Englishto allow children to be creative with

languageto involve all children

Functions of games

learning

educational

entertaiment

relaxation

psychological

developmentalcommunicative

TYPES OF GAMES All games can be divided into Competitive cooperative Speaking games Grammar games Listening games Writing games Action games

TEACHING TIPS

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