Students

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Students motivation for studying English

• Reshetnikova Zoya Borisovna,
• School 62,
• Talitsa

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When a teacher uses different kinds of the
lesson, educational games

• kids do not notice that they are taught.
• they can relax during the lesson.
• pupils like such lessons.
• it motivates children to study English.
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Games which I use in my lessonsLexical and
grammar games

• I spy with my eye. A pupil begins with the
  words I spy with my eye something beginning with
  the letter C. Other pupils ask questions Is
  this a cat? The pupil answers Yes, it is. Its
  a cat. No, it isnt.
• Change places. The students stand in a circle.
  The teacher or a student says Change places,
  who has got long hair (nice shirt, who had done
  the homework, who has cleaned teeth today, etc).
  You may revise a lot of topics with the help of
  this game.

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If I were

• The students are given sheets of paper with
  phrases with Conditional 2. For example
• -If I were rich, I would
• -If I were the head of our school, I would
• -If I were a magician, I would
• -If I were the queen, I would
• -If I were a cosmonaut, I would
• -If I saw an UFO next to me, I would
  
• -If I had much money, I would
  
• -If I lived in USA, I would
• -If I were a president of Russia, I would
• -If I were an adult, I would
• -If I saw a spaceman, I would
• - If it were summer, I would
• The students must continue the sentences. Then
  they may be asked to write or tell a story with
  this sentence.

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Advice for a novice

• The students must give advice to a new child.
  E.g.
• You must go to school every day.
• You should not cry at the lesson.
• Then a novice asks the questions Can I..?
  Mustnt I?, Should I?

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Games with motions

• Getting in order. The students repeat the
  ordinal numerals. The students are put in a line.
  They rearrange themselves according to the dates
  of the birthdays. They must say I am the
  first. I was born on theof19 Then the
  students may rearrange according to the length of
  their names. I m the second after Natalya,
  because there are 6 letters in my name. My name
  is

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Running dictation

• The whole class takes part in the game. It may be
  divided into some groups. Secretaries are
  appointed. They run and read sentences from the
  sheet of paper hanging in the corridor next to
  the classroom. Then they dictate them to the
  pupils of his/her group. The winner will be the
  team which writes the dictation without errors.

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Find someone who

• The students must find someone in the group who
  /e.g./ likes carrots. One student goes over the
  classroom and asks his classmates Do you like
  carrots? Another one must find the person who
  likes traveling. Do you like traveling? Have
  you been to Germany?/etc./

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We are musicians

• Students repeat the words after the teacher and
  do certain motions We are musicians. (They
  touch their chest with a finger.) We are very
  cool. (They show a thumb.) We can play (violin,
  drum, trumpet, stomach, nerves). When they
  pronounce the name of the instrument, they show
  how they play them and pronounce some sounds,
  e.g. violinataki, drumataki, stomataki,
  nervotaki, etc they say Nervotaki-nervotaki-
  nervotaki-yes! The words are meaningless, but
  its also fun.

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Sharks

• The students imitate that they swim in the ocean.
  They do the motions of swimming and repeat the
  words We were swimming. Sharks were swimming
  too. Father-shark. Kids show how the shark
  swims and eats fish repeating the sounds
  Doodle-Doodle-Doodle-do. (2 times.) They show
  with their hands how the father-shark and all the
  members of their shark family eat fish. We saw
  sharks. Afraid. Swim away. The kids show how
  they were swimming away and how they were running
  away on the shore. They say Safe and sound. We
  have a good opportunity to revise Past
  Progressive and have fun.

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Internet and video lessons

• I noticed that kids of all ages like to work
  with Internet and to watch video. So I often use
  both Internet and video in my lessons to
  stimulate my students to listen to native
  speakers and to speak English. Ive done a lot of
  lessons using video and information from
  Internet.