Abstract

VIZCO GELL, Carmen Elizabeth  and  O´ REILLY HERRERA, Eduardo. Didactic game. Its relevancein english teaching in the career of medice: The domino game. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.2. ISSN 1729-519X.

Didactic games are tools to learn the language. All of them help to practice the language in an active and interesting way. Students should be motivated. The teacher should be closed to them to facilitate the teaching-learning process. Didactic games can be used in each stage of the class and students can practice the language through them. Also students can use one or more grammatical structures at the same time. To obtain these results the teacher should use accessible techniques. Games can be played in teams or in pairs, establishing rules to be followed, guiding the students to use the appropriate aspects. This domino game has 135 chips; these chips would have 45 commonly used irregular verbs in general English courses. There are verbs in present, past and past participle. Players should play from the right to the left, beginning with the verb in present, then in past and after that in past participle Summing up, this procedure could be used with different variants according to professor and students need.

Keywords : Didactic game; irregular verbs; grammatical structure; Domino game.