Arousing Students’ Interest Through Games
教學交流
作者：李新清
【Abstract】As is well known，interest is the best teacher and it can cause motivation. "Motivation is what moves the students from boredom to interest， It’s something like engine and steering wheel of an automobile . "（Spolsky. B. 1989 ） So I decided to adopt some different kinds of games in my lessons to arouse the learners’ interest and motivate them ， and help them keep up their English learning.
【Key Words】 Phonetic revision through games
Ⅰ.Phonetic revision through games
The students always feel it difficult to understand and remember many rules of pronunciation . This time ， I organize some games ， let them realize the characteristic of the rules of pronunciation
Example ： Listening phonetic relay race .Purpose： to find the way to understand and remember the rules of vowel pronunciation. Instruction： First I say a word "good" ， then get the students say the words and write the words that contain the same vowel. Such as book， look ， food and so on .If one keeps silent or repeats the same word as others ’， his / her group will lose a mark . Then get the students to observe the characteristic of the form of the words in each group carefully and guide them to understand and remember the rules of their vowel pronunciation .（ those shown above on the right.）After the game most of the students said they could understand and master the rules of pronunciation easily .