ESCUELA NORMAL DE ATLACOMULCO

“PROFESORA EVANGELINA ALCÁNTARA DÍAZ”

“Using Board and Card Games as Resources to Develop Speaking

Skill”

Essay

Que para sustentar examen profesional y obtener

el Titulo de Licenciado en Educación Secundaria con Especialidad
en Lengua Extranjera (Inglés)

Presenta

LILI RUTH MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ

Atlacomulco, México. Junio, 2010

Train a child in the way he should go
And when he is old
He will not turn from it.

Hebrew Proverb.
 To you, who always were, are and will be with me
Because I love you more than everything in the world.
To you, who made it possible.
 INDEX

Introduction………………………………………………………………………….. 6

PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOPIC

THE COMMUNITY…………………………………………………………… 10
THE SCHOOL ……………………………………………………………….. 12
THE BEGINNING OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR
Updating courses…………………………………………………….. 16
Commissions ………………………………………………………… 17
My role as a teacher …………………………………………………. 18
The work with the tutor ………………………………………………. 20
Planning ………………………………………………………………. 21
Assessment and evaluation ………………………………………… 23
The first classes ………………………………………………………. 25
MY DIDACTICAL PROPOSAL
The selected group …………………………………………………… 29
Purposes ………………………………………………………………. 31
Questions to be answered …………………………………………… 31

PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOPIC

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
What is speaking? …………………………………………………….. 33
Elements of speaking production……………………………………. 34
The mental and social process of speaking ………………………… 35
Building a speaking class ………………………………………………36
What kind of preparation is required to apply a game? ................... 37
Game as resource to teach English …………………………………. 38
Where games fit into the teaching process? ……………………… 39
Advantages and disadvantages of board and card games………… 41
 How board and card games fit into the Experiential Learning
Approach………………………………………………………………… 43
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Bingo ………………………………………………………………….…. 49
Exchanging games …………………………………………………….. 52
Card game …………………………………………………………….… 55
Unscramble ……………………………………………………………... 58
Mime it …………………………………………………………………... 61
Sport cards …………………………………………………………….... 65
Board game …………………………………………………………….. 68
Routines ………………………………………………………………… 72
How often card game ………………………………………………….. 78
My board game ………………………………………………………... 81

PART III: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

CONCLUSIONS ………………………………………………………………. 85
SUGGESTIONS ………………………………………………………………. 87
BIBLIOGRAPHY ………………………………………………………………. 88
APPENDIXES …………………………………………………………….…… 90
 PART I
THE TOPIC OF
STUDY
 PART II
THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF THE TOPIC
 PART III

CONCLUSIONS
AND
SUGGESTIONS
APPENDIXES