Grammar Games

III. Grammar Games

The aim of these games is to revise some grammar rules, to help children to realize and memorize the material. It is a kind of the situation for using some rules in speaking or writing.
Materials: a blackboard
How to play: you should draw the field for the game and fill the squares with the material you want to work with. For example:

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+ she play	– you jump	? we swim
+ they sing	– he dance	? she run
+ I read	– we drive	? they skip

The teacher should divide the class into two teams: “X” and “O”. The members of each team should put their marks (X and O) to the squares they want making up the sentences according to the scheme: “+” means declarative sentences, “–” means negative sentences, “?” means interrogative sentences. On the blackboard you can write different signal words for children to use the tenses (yesterday, tomorrow, etc.)
Plural form of the nouns:

A child – _________	A boy – _________	A man – _________
A cat – ________	A woman – ________	A lady – _________
A foot – ________	A book – ________	A car – ________

Pupils can come to the blackboard and write the plural forms of the nouns.
You can also practice degrees of comparison of the adjectives, tenses, modal verbs and etc.

2. Where is it?

How to play: you should show several toys (or objects) to the players and then position the toys on the chair, under it, near it, in the bag (the number of the toys depends on the level of the pupils). Ask the pupils to close their eyes and then change the toys and their positions. Ask the players to open their eyes and notice the differences: “The cat was under the chair. Now the dog is under the chair. Put the cat under the chair.”

3. What are you doing?

Materials: a blackboard
How to play: write a list of action verbs on the blackboard. Every pupil should come to the blackboard and demonstrate one of the verbs without saying a word, only using gestures. Others can ask him or her: “Are you swimming/running now? / Did you swim yesterday? / Will you play tomorrow?” – “Yes/No”.
These games seem to be of no importance, but it’s not true. It is extremely important to relax and enjoy yourself in class. It helps both the pupils and the teacher to relax, to have positive emotions. These games help to make the lesson extraordinary for children and thus interesting and successful for them.