games..games..language games?

The full report of the language camp has finished. let see what i want to talk for each games ;)

There are eight games that were selected for this camp. These games focused on different areas of language learning such as vocabulary, listening skill, identifying parts of speech etc. The briefing for each games are stated as follows:
· Flip-A-Card
The materials for this game are well prepared. This game focusing on vocabulary, which requires the participants to state name of countries, animal, verb, adjectives, fruits and vegetables according to the chosen alphabet. The strength of this game is that is easy to play, participant’s can easily understand about this game. The negative side of this game is that it is quite boring, because the participant’s just need to flip a card and they just choose between the two alphabet that was selected based on the cards that they chosen.

· Add One More
Most of the groups did not have ample time to play this game. This is because the participants do not easily understand this game. The confusing part is when the time we as facilitators need to give them marks. But there are still groups that manage to play this game and they did not face any problems regarding this game.


· Snap
The participants easily understood this game. They also seem to compete with each other to get the marks for their group. For the selection of words, this game has chosen two words from different categories that can build another one meaningful word when it combines together. This game took a short time to end, as the participants already know the word that they are going to ‘snap’.

· Othello
The preparation for this game took a long time. This game needs at least 16 participants in order to work and been played successfully. This game focused on vocabulary, which requires the participants to know the synonyms, antonyms, homonyms for each word. But there is a suggestion to change the way we play this game to the “Dam Haji” because the participants are more familiar with this game. The successful part for this game is that the participants manage to answer most of the questions correctly.

· Sentence Scrabble
This game focusing on builds a sentence by identifying the category of word based on its parts of speech. This is the only game that focused on sentence level and the participants manage to builds sentences based on the categories that they were ask to. They also need to move around to find words that have high marks with their friends in order to win this game.


· Home Sweet Home
This game is similar with the ”Win, Lose or Draw”, so the participants easily understand this game. But this game only focuses on one category that is home appliances. Maybe after this we can add more categories. This is because some of the facilitators need to add words at the end of the session because the finish all the cards in a short time.

· Build-A-Bridge
As for the initial part of this game, it looks like quite messy because of the materials. Some of the facilitators also still did not understand on how to play this game. The facilitator in charge takes time to explain the rules of the game, how to play this game to the facilitators and the participants, and the game start quite late. This game also need quite a lot of staff such as old newspapers, straw, binding tape and rope. Maybe after this we can come out with the simplify version of Buil-A-Bridge.

· Bingo
This game only function as a filler game, as we did not play this game. This game is really suitable to be play in order to fill the gap between activities.