Learning is a Game

This morning's class started out very slowly. There was a brief lecture on grammatical structures and we did some oral practice exercises. When I glanced at my watch and saw that it was only 9:10, I began to panic. Only forty minutes of class had passed, and we had another hour and twenty minutes in the first session plus another two hour session that would begin at 11am. I wondered how on earth I would manage to stay awake for the next four hours!

Then we began playing games. We started with charades, which led to a lively discussion. Then we played two guessing games. All of the games were related to vocabulary in the chapter, but we were up and moving and having fun. The time seemed to fly by! The next thing we knew, it was five minutes until one and the teacher was assigning homework for tonight.

The games had everyone engaged. We were motivated and were learning at the same time. The instructors at UCEL are truly engaging multimodal practices in their lesson planning, and it is working in terms of instructional methods! Learning was fun today!