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Gaming
Why do we learn English as a second language? That would be to be able to communicate in English right? To have conversations, talk about things and share information with people who speak English.
So what’s the best way to practice? Exercises? Grammar? No no No.
The best way to practice is in real conversations. Exercise, grammar, etc. are all support structures, designed to get you ready for the real conversations!
But what If I don’t know what to talk about? Or conversation tends to always be the same things again and again. Now what do I do?
Excellent question!! What we need now is a conversation focus. Something to help generate more conversation on varying but relevant and interesting topics. One conversation focus that we use in Beautiful R classes is gaming.
The basic idea is that you become like a commander, and your teacher is your soldier. You guide your teacher on what you want done in game, and your teacher executes. Of course you’ll be talking about all kinds of ingame things while your at it.
We’ve tested a variety of game types for use in class. Some are great for class use and are great for generating conversation, while others didn’t work out. So we don’t use those ones. Here are the types of games that we’ve found that have worked really good for us:
Open world building games
Like Minecraft and Minetest. There is an unending scope of things to do in these kinds of games and a massive number of real world things in the game to help get those conversations going. There are a lot of hand tools, plants, animals, trees, ores, biomes, weather types, terrains, etc. The game can be used in artistic conversation, to build something cute. And it can be used in very technical conversations to use things like redstone to build working computers inside of the game. Yes, if you understand how to make circuits, then incredible things like this can be done!
Minecraft
Roblocks
Designing games
Like Roblocks and Minecraft. Have you ever wanted to make your own minigame inside of Roblocks or Minecraft. Some aspects of it aren’t that hard. We’ll design games together according to your interests, and discuss and discover new relevant vocabulary along the way.
Decorating games
Like Houseflipper. Maybe your someone who likes to make things beautiful? You’d like to explore things like what the real world interior decorators or home renovators might do. In games like this, we can do the things that those professionals do, and use it to engage in conversation and learn the special vocabulary of those industries.
House Flipper
Journey of a Roach
Easy games
Like Journey of a Roach or Gomo. These games are for kids, who need something that’s really easy, with puzzles that don’t stretch the brain too much. These games are very fun but because you get to set the pace, they’re great for engaging in conversation. Games like this encourage kids to speak in sentences to direct the action, and to ask questions about the various things that they see.
Fast games
Like the speed game. This is a game that we use in class with a lot of our students. Games like this challenge the mind to skip the middle “think a lot” step and go directly from “see it” to “say it”. Which is exactly what we want for fluency and English speech that doesn’t tire the mind. Well use games like this to help your mind to recognize patterns and use them reflexively to beat your opponent even if he’s very fast.
Speed
If you’d like to discuss any of these in class gaming options, or start classes that incorporate any of these, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
About Silent Roar
I’m a Canadian living in Lapu Lapu Cebu. I’ve been educating and training young learners in true and beautiful American English for 13 years now. I offer local free classes for the underprivileged too now. I’m expanding my business and beginning the creation of a lot of classroom support materials.
For now that will be books, but later will include audio, video, etc. Additionally I’m preparing to start several businesses, the first of these will be a food delivery service with social media aspects. I will be needing people for various positions. But every position will have ministry opportunities in it’s own way, and every person will be trained in true and beautiful American English.
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