Games in the Classroom
This is my first attempt at using the blog feature from flock. Thanks to Vicki Davis over at Cool Cat Teacher Blog for pointing me to Langwitches. I’ve just subscribed to them, and was scrolling through to this post: Games in the Language Classroom
About a week ago, an idea struck me. One of my students is a jedi, number crunching accountant. Many of our classes involves going through accounting terms and practicing proper pronunciation of the “big numbers.” Well the idea was around a computer game that I enjoy playing from time to time: Monopoly. I wondered to myself, wouldn’t this be a cool and fun way to encourage him to read, think, and talk in English? But in English closely related to his work?
I have yet to try it out, but when I do, I’ll let you know if it worked.
I just have a hunch that once he got past the learning curve of the game, he would quickly find himself addicted, and developing his English skills at the same time.
