GAME-BASED METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

This article deals with the methods, which are used at foreign language lessons. A game is a tool for simulation of communication situation. The usage of educational and speech game situations completely corresponds the age features of children and creates conditions for their natural communication. Such games as sports, action, intellectual, subject-role games are used in implementation of all these processes. The creative and subject-role games are on the first place. This rise is based on the increasing value of communication in the teenager's life. Therefore, in our opinion, at an average stage of teaching foreign languages the mean of increase in educational process efficiency are competition games, agon games. For some pupils, who aren't showing interest in a subject, competitions game can serve as a starting point in emergence of this interest. Therefore, the usage of such games gives the greatest effect in groups, where pupils have the unstable attention, lowered interest in a subject.