I found this article very interesting, because it gives us some cues to make the process of learning a language funy and less strict for students and teachers. Before I wrote the summary I read this article several times in order to recognize the main and support ideas of the topic. Also I organized them in a plan or shame.After this steps, I wrote two or more draws and edited them in order to write the final summary.
SUMMARY
According to this article,games might help learners with the practice and internalization of vocabulary and grammar structures.Also, they could improve the motivation through the competition.Besides that, they give students another important benefit:the acquisition of a language in an unconscious way by paying attention in the activity, not in the idiom itself.This kind of games are simples and usuful to use;mostly for Teachers that want to revise and practice some topics.Therefore, you should include them in your lesson plans as time fillers and as a very actual tool for teaching.Next,we distinguish three groups of games:numbers and letters,word games and speaking ones.The first set is compounded by Bingo, Secrets messages and Prices,and Count again. In this activities, students can practice series of numbers combination,the alphabet,spelling and listening competitions.All this in a real contex, without a fixed order.The second group is formed by Word sets,Word building,Card scrable,My shopping basket,Anything to declare?,Sound and letter chains, Word associations and the grammar focus games.The objectives of them are: the practice of grammatical categories,family words,and vocabulary revision.Finely,in the third group, we have some important games called:What is my line?, Animal, vegetable and mineral?,and a Chain story.This group is related to yes/no questions, the categories of objects and the development of imagination.In short, games make the process of learning more playful and unconsciously to students. Aditionally they provide flexibility and variety for teacher lesson plans.
