Hello to the all of you dudes and dudettes,
today I want to talk about english; in particular about the use of games you can do with words, are they useful? are they appropriate for a main room on a site where to learn english as ec is?
I will give my answers to these 2 questions and I'd like to see which are your opinions about. Ah it is may be better if I first define what games with words are, at least after me; of course the usual guessing games, the games where you have to start a word with the final letters of the previous one, the games where you add a prefix or a suffix to the words, and those where you change consonants with an only one previously chosen or the vowels, etc.
I think these are useful games; they require people to focus on the words, to check the dictionary and they help to remember the words. On a chat as the one of english club they should be allow and not considered as foreign languages ... they are useful and this isn't but a chat not the class of a course. These are my point of view summarised, I wait for yours. Hugs and kisses to the most of you shake hand with the other and as any actoress exiting the scene does bows
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Playing with words is a way of developing thought in the language targeted. Since thinking in that language is what does the trick to improve it I think it is quite linguistically beneficial to use any word games in main or any other context, that is even much better than the customary hi- h r u- mode in which main turns sometimes. I don't know if we could get banned for playing them, let's take the risk
I have to come up with a good word game this weekend!
I've played some fabulous word games in the Main Room of chat; I always enjoy them if I can see that people are learning from them.
I've never played the games you describe, Viviana, but I hope to one day soon.
What a shame such a useful practise of English was misinterpreted as a foreign language. I'm sure people could easily drift off into using the wrong words, but if the whole conversation is viewed in context it shouldn't have caused a problem for you. I'm sorry this was the case.
The others in the Main Room always seem to enjoy the games I lead on. I hope we don't have to stop playing them.
Keep your chin up, Vivi,
Your friend, Ali
WE often use "word" games in English classes. When teaching English as a Foreign Language. you want to keep it fun. People learn more of a language when they are having fun than when they view it as "work". So games such as "Twenty Questions", "Writing Scrolls", Starting a word or sentence with the last letter of the previous word or the last word of the previous sentence are all games used in teaching English as a second language or even as a first language.
It is also more constructive than some of the chats I have witnessed. I wouldn't want to see the main chat always in a "game" mode but see no harm in it when people don't have more pressing matters. Practicing English is the key whether it be writing an essay or playing word games.
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