During our second LTT, we set up 4 mixed teams and the students in these teams created board games with their team mates to use as a material in English courses.

In this handbook, you will find the importance of the board games in language courses and also the games which students created. Also, we will explain how to create this game and how to play it.

What is the importance of the board and box games

 in teaching English?

        Language has an important rule for human life to express ideas, emotion, and desires.Therefore, English is taught from elementary school to university level. Nowadays, English is often used in formal or non formal situation, e.g. State offices, banks, and schools, and markets.

The board games are an effective, easy, and fun way for students to learn and practice students' communication skills. With the board games, students can grow their motivation (Badroeni, 2018) to try practice the ability to talk them, without the tensions inside, and to create an atmosphere of friendship between teacher and students. The board games are effective used in learning process, especially in teaching speaking makes students more understanding and confidence to practice the ability to speaking English.

The board games improve the students‟ speaking proficiency and the atmosphere of teaching and learning process becomes more alive. There is also the result finding on the teacher behavior that is she knows another media in teaching speaking.

The atmosphere during the implementing of games also improved. The improvement could be seen in the terms of their participation in answering question, asking the teacher if they got difficulties, paying attention to the teacher explanation, and increasing their motivation to learn. The process of teaching and learning became more communicative and learning anxiety reduced. The students were not ashamed of asking question to the teacher and answering her question. They also were active discussing the task with their friends. In the guessing game, they looked more competitive. They had to discuss with their group to find the prediction of the words meant. The competitive atmosphere also made them concentrate and think intensively during the learning process.

After this mobility, we reach this conclusion that Board games:

1). The use of games helps the students to comprehend the vocabulary and grammar. Finally, they can use the vocabulary, grammar and the expression in real communication. 

2). Games can make the students think intensively and concentrate in learning process. By so doing, they will able to express their idea, think naturally. 

3). Games increase creativity and courage; they have more discussion with their friends. It also increases their enthusiasts to ask the teacher about their difficulties.

DRAGON GAME

Rules:

.you need 4 players

.the game has got 20 steps.

.the first person who complete  twenty steps wins the game.

How to Play

.Each player rolls the dice once. The player who has the highest numbers will start to play.

Player rolls the dice and go forward according to dice. When he/she stops, take a question cards.

If she/he answers correctly, she/he goes on. If she/he answers wrongly, the other player goes on.

JOKER GAME 

The game has got different questions about general culture of our project countries.

There are 3 different levels: for the first level there are 3 questions, for the second and for the third level there are 4 questions with 4 options each.

RULES

If the group answers correctly to the questions of the first level they go/pass to the second level and so on..

The group who answers all questions and passes the all levels is the winner

The first answer is the one that counts

You have got 10 seconds to give the answer

If you give a wrong answer you are OUT of the game.