Review in Form of a Game: Practical Remarks for a Language Course

Snejina Sonina

Abstract


The article summarizes my own experience of conducting reviews for exams in French language courses. Through more than ten years of teaching French language and linguistics, I have developed pre-exam review sessions based on game models to help my students repeat term lessons in an engaging and memorable atmosphere. The article is intended as a practical guide for creating and organising such a review game. It is constituted of seven parts with subtitles, which should make it easy to navigate. After a short introduction describing challenges encountered in end-of-year reviews, the reader will find a general description of the game in part 2 and examples of one complete round of it in part 4, while the interceding part 3 will provide practical tips on support materials, which themselves make up part 5. These supports deal with ways of formulating questions and displaying answers using animations in PowerPoint presentations. The final section, part 6, will offer advice on using a course website and classroom aids to increase student attendance and encourage more effective classroom participation. The brief conclusion enumerates the beneficial effects of the game, underlines the value of a well-prepared PowerPoint presentation, and gives examples of students’ positive feedback on this format of material review. 


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review game in the classroom

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