Different Types of Language Games

1. Educational value of Language games
In communicative approach games have great
importance. They provide real interest in children.
Language games may help hesitant and shy pupils
to participate in the games. It can improve the
students fluency in listening, speaking, reading and
writing. Language games help to make the class
lively and interesting.

2. 1. To help the pupil learn the target language in
a playful way.
2. To teach or test structure or vocabulary.
3. To make the classroom lively.
4. To develop co-operation in language learning.
5. To participate all pupils in class.
6. To execute interest in learning.

3. There are different language games namely:
Speaking games
Spelling games
Reading games
Writing games
Grammar games
Listening games
Riddles
Oral games
Conversational games
Vocabulary games

4. Speech games can be given through group work. So divide the class into two groups.
Give games like
Dumb crambo.
Pupils from each team in turn represent different animals and make noises of
animals. Members of the opposite group should say the name of the animals.
Another game is the
Ladder game.
In this game the teacher name an institution say hospital and ask the class to say
words connected with a hospital and asks the class to say words connected with a
hospital like doctor, nurse, bed. Medicine etc. The group that say a word not relevant
to a hospital loses a point. This game is suitable for improving the word power of
pupils.

5. 1. The teacher says a word ‘book’ and asks the class to
say a word beginning with K (The last letter). If one
group says ‘kite’ the next group should say a word
beginning with ‘e’. One that gives a wrong answer
loses one point.
2. Making many words is another game. The teacher
gives a word out of the component letters of the word.
Pupils make many words. E.g. If the word given is
mother, pupils can make many words, out of this like
‘moth’ ,‘other’, ‘hot’, ‘her’ etc.

6. Read and Do
It is a reading game. Make several pieces of paper
and write in each of them some action words like
‘read’ ‘write’, ‘laugh’. Let the pupils come forward
and take one piece. After reading it, the pupil has to
do the actions. At the same time other pupils may be
asked to say what the pupil is doing.

7. Creation
The teacher writes on the blackboard or says a sentence
such as ‘sita sings song’
( each word in the sentence begins with ‘s’) and asks to
students to make similar sentences and write them on loose
sheets of paper.
Picture game
The teacher shows a picture and asks many questions
about what they have seen in the picture and finally asks the
children to write what they have said about the picture.

8. Grammar can be taught through effective games to teach nouns, verbs, and
adjectives.
Teacher asks students to write the following on a rectangular piece of paper.
•Their hobby on top right hand corner
•Favorite person/place/thing on the left hand corner.
•One of their best qualities on the bottom right hand corner
The teacher then points out that the names of favorite person/place/thing which
they wrote are nouns, their hobbies like reading, listening to music, watching T. V,
playing etc. are the verbs and the words which described their good/bad qualities
are the adjectives.