Hello everyone! I hope you've enjoyed your winter break! This time, I want to share with you two interactive games. They are great for children since they are very colourful and dynamic. These games are mainly focused on present tenses but they are for different age.
The first one is for beginners level; it presents very basic sentences and includes a cute character which celebrates or gets sad when the child chooses the correct/wrong answer. Furthermore, there is one thing in particular that I consider useful and it is that, while the student practices present simple tenses, he or she is recycling previous knowledge such as "CAN+VERB INF".
GAME 1 (link)
The second one is for older students since the game is more complex and the options given are from a higher level of knowledge. In addition to this, the characters are more suitable for older students, in my opinion for 10-13(aprox.) years old students.
GAME 2 (link)
Well, all what you need to play these games with your students is a computer which has access to internet. I know that, in most schools, we don't find such technology and it would be very difficult to try them on with large groups of students but I think that you can give it as a homework since, nowadays, most of our students have access, on their computer or some mobile phone, to internet.
You can also play them when you give some private lessons or if the facilities of the institution where you work allow it, you can use a projector and ask your students to come at the front and choose the options by turns.
There are many ways of make this kind of activities work, just think about it and let innovation enter in our lives!
Have a nice week :)
Araceli.
