Games are fun and children like to play them. That in itself is a strong argument for incorporating them in the EFL classroom. Playing games is a natural and vital part of growing up and learning. Through games children experiment, discover and interact with their environment. Not to include games in the classroom would be to withhold from the children an essential tool for understanding their world; a world which the language teacher seeks to enlarge through the experience of a foreign language.
Games add variation to a lesson and increase motivation by providing plausible incentive to use the target language. Remember that for many children between four and twelve years, especially the youngest, language learning will not be the key motivational factor. Games can provide this stimulus. The game context makes the foreign language immediately useful to the children. It brings the target language to life. The game makes the reasons for speaking plausible even to reluctant children.
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