2. What is the most important thing to do
for children under six years old?
3. Why games are the favorite activity
for children?
• Games keep
children's interest in
the activities.
4. Do children learn better English,
when they do it through games?
• In second language acquisition, games improve
the motivation of learning the new language.
• Even children with less abilities in learning, feel
a real achieve when they can participate in these
games.
• Many games provide a considerable practice in
specific aspects of the language. This advantage
permit to avoid boredom.
6. Game principle
• “Enfatiza el carácter lúdico que deben
tener principalmente las situaciones de
aprendizaje, ya que el juego tiene un
sentido fundamental en la vida de la niña
y del niño. A través del juego, que es
básicamente un proceso en sí para los
párvulos y no sólo un medio, se abren
permanentemente posibilidades para la
imaginación, lo gozoso, la creatividad y la
libertad.” (MINEDUC, 2001)
7. Therefore ….
• Playful activities must be considered as
one of the members in planning the
didactic.
8. Some games samples:
• Memory games
• Lottery games
• Hidden pictures
• Magic bag
• Magic box
• Twister
• Hide and seek
• Who stole the cookie?
• Simon says
• Puppets
• Picture dominoes
• Find the difference
• Spin off
• Songs or dramatized
poems
• More??????
