Teaching Procedure on Grammar Games

The Teaching Procedure

The use of run and win is presented through three-phase teaching, i.e. pre-teaching, whilst-teaching, and post-teaching.

Pre-Teaching

1.      Teacher uses some pictures to do the brainstorming

2.      Teacher asks and leads the students to guess one’s occupation based on the pictures presented in front of the class, such as:

a.       Can you guess what his job is?

b.      He works in a restaurant, tastes some food, etc, so he is a/an …

3.      Teacher asks and leads the students to mention some daily activities by using the pictures, such as:

a.       What do you do every Saturday night?

b.      Do you brush your teeth before you go to bed?

c.       Let’s see this picture. She has breakfast; what about this, he…

4.      Teacher shows the objective of the lesson, and tells the students that they are going to play a game.

Whilst-Teaching

5.      Teacher groups the students; each group consists of four persons.

6.      Teacher discusses the rules of the game and how to play the game.

7.      Teacher demonstrates the students how to play the game.

8.      Teacher distributes the game board with the dice and the cards.

9.      Students play the game.

10.  Teacher distributes the activity report worksheet and explains the instruction (Appendix 2)..

11.  Students fill in the activity report worksheet

12.  Students and the teacher discuss the worksheet done by the students

Post-Teaching

13.  Teacher asks the students to sum up what they have learnt.

14.  Teacher asks students’ reflection on the teaching learning activities.

 It cannot be argued that games bring many benefits in the teaching and learning language, particularly English. Teachers can get many benefits in using games in their class. This article discusses Race and Win, a board game that can help much in teaching present simple. The strategy described here is how to use the game as a media to practice the use of present simple grammatically, notably agreement of the subject of third singular person and the verb. By using this game, students are encouraged to practice the use of –s/-es addition on verbs in order to make a grammatical sentence of Simple Present. Through this game, students’ motivation is increase due to the sense of challenge and fun of the game. Therefore, it is very beneficial for teachers to use games in teaching English.