Games Language People Play

Learning a new language is highly demanding. But it can also be good fun, and in between the hard work of language acquisition there should be opportunities for breaks from the regular classroom routine where what has been learned is put to rewarding and practical use. Games Language People Play provides teachers and students with a variety of language games to make the teaching and learning of a new language an occasion for enjoyable competitiveness. There are 122 games in all, ranging in level from Beginners to Intermedi-ate to Advanced, including games for the multilevel classroom that can be played together by all levels. Each game indicates the language skill or combination of skills being practised -- listening, speaking, reading and writing -- and the optimal group size, from as few as 10 students to classes of unlimited size. The game's instructional objective -- for example, vocabu-lary expansion -- the materials needed to play, a full description of the game itself, additional suggestions, scoring guides and additional handouts are all provided. You and your class need only to relax and enjoy the wonder-fully creative ideas that Jerry Steinberg has assembled for you.