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Game today, teacher? How many of you have been asked this question? People, in our case, people who are students, love games. I have to admit there are some rare exceptions but most students will eagerly participate in whatever you want as long as you call it a game. And there's no better way to get your students involved and engaged than for you to ask them to create their own game.
In this picture, the students were only 5 and 6 years old so I made the base of the game and they drew the words in the squares. The older they are, the more they can do on their own. The game markers can be objects you already have in the class. We used these little paint bottles so each student could be a different color. In most games I have them make, all they have to do to play is throw a dice and move their markers. In this class, wherever they landed, they had to say this is a flower, for example. If there was a number next to the square, they also had to say the number. If they said the sentence correctly, they could stay where they landed. If not, they had to go back to where they were before.
I used a big strip of paper for this game because I only had 5 students. In a bigger class, they can be divided into groups to make a game for another group to play. It's also a great way to review any vocabulary or grammar point your are teaching. It's also something you can save and use throughout the semester whenever you have some extra time. The biggest plus is that this took me less than 5 minutes to prepare. The rest was up to them.

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