Маша расскажет, как играют юные ученики – дошкольники от трёх с половиной лет, а также младшие школьники. Обсудит темп и динамику игр для малышей, роли, материалы, познакомит с наиболее выдающимися и заслуженно любимыми играми для этого возраста и покажет, как их можно адаптировать для различных тем и форм занятий.

1. it’s all children’s games
playing with pre-primary and primary learners
Masha Andrievich
Trendy English Games, April 2o17

2. What are we talking about today?
- how play in general reflects child development
- implications for teaching
- generic game types to offer to various age
groups
- games for pre-schoolers and primary children
- resources

3. Why do children play at all?
👑 main child play researchers - J. Piaget, E.
Eriksson, L .Vygotsky, F. Buytendijk, K. Gross 👑
play is an exercise
human beings play games because they are young
play is an essential vehicle for development

4. younger children (3.5 – 5 y.o)
– learn holistically
– have limited motor skills
– enjoy exploring the world of objects around
– more self-centred rather than interested in
communication with peers
– in most cases, no literacy skills or just the
beginning

5. how do we respond to these age needs?
– use movement
– ensure we offer games where speaking,
listening and movement are all involved
– build up on the interest to objects
– help young students build social interaction
skills

6. so, what are the games, then?
1 – Realia/ Single-object games

7. –> the idea is to create together an object to
expose the language you’ve chosen
1. provide a model
2. help create an object
3. model the language (2-3-4 phrases)
4. practice!

8. 2 – Movement games – Good old TPR 
- Robots
- Animal party
- Yes/No Borderline
- Games with Picture Flashcards
*clear and short instructions
don’t forget to change roles!

9. 3 – early stage Board games
– Memory (start with less pairs)
– Big Dice games
– Spinner games
– Domino
– Snap
*teach Classroom language for the game – “it’s
your turn”, “no, sorry”, “I’m first!” etc

10. primary learners (7-9 y.o)
1a – Anything with pretty cards is game-ish
– matching
– grouping
– moving
– finding
– guessing
– describing
– hiding

11. 1b – enhancing Resource pack games

13. 1b – enhancing Resource pack games
2 more stages: language focus (pre) and recall (post)
1 choose an area to focus on before going into the
Activity (potentially difficult/add more for vocab
development)
2 set the task (“We’re going to play a game. But before
let’s look at..”) and go through the language
3 Model the Activity + allow time
4 Feedback
5 Recap (learners use the language from the Activity and
your language focus)

14. 2 – Board games
– choose games that are rich in language
– chose games for skills development
- Happy families type
- BrainBox
- Guess who?
- DK games – Very Silly Sentences, etc
- Scholastic Games pack
- Djeco games

15. 3 – Drama games
– Charades
– Statues
– Do the opposite
– Simon says

16. Recap?
– 3 types of games for younger children?
Realia game
Beginner board games
Movement games
– 3+ types of games for older children?
Pretty cards activities
Resource pack games enhanced
Board games
Drama games

17. Resources

18. Resources
+Carold Read’s list of flashcard “games”
http://www.carolread.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/flashcards.pdf

19. Thank you for coming!
andmasha@gmail.com
fromtheclass.wordpress.com
facebook.com/andmasha