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Apply Now!Home / TEFL Videos / TEFL Videos - Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Game Example 'Tic Tac Toe'
So, let's take a common game that's been played over the years, which is called Noughts and Crosses or Tic-Tac-Toe. What we're going to do is to adapt this game for classroom use. So, we've taken the normal Tic-Tac-Toe or Noughts and Crosses grid and we've just numbered out each of the particular squares. What we can then do is to form teams and those teams can then be asked a series of questions and they get to choose which question they want from 1 to 9. So, let's say, for example, they choose question 1. That could be on anything that they have studied ,the grammar or vocabulary. If they get that question correct and say they are the Noughts or the zeros then they get to put their mark here. What the next group will probably do is to try to block them in some way by choosing this one, this one or this one and again their choice relates to some grammar or vocabulary point. So, here is a very simple use of Noughts and Crosses for teaching language.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
Both subjects of this unit were not subjects that I think of when teaching language, but after this unit I can see how important they are. Firstly, conditionals occur very often in a lot of different tenses, and it was very interesting to review all the forms of conditionals and their rules. It was also interesting to review the patterns and verb tense changing rules for reporting direct speech, as this is an area that I have struggled with in the past.Watching these lessons being done, I found that this unit was mainly emphasizing the sort of physicality of teaching English. As seen in the first video, if you come in with a grimace, speaking quickly, lazily teaching the subject without checking for comprehension, your lesson will fail. On the other hand, with a positive and engaging demeanor, student engagement, and innovative approaches to the subject matter, it is likely you will have more success.
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