Using games in teaching grammar

Dear colleagues,
I’d like to share an interesting and meaningful grammar activity I have just practiced this morning. It’s actually the famous game "don’t say yes or no" adapted from “Grammar practice activities” by Penny Ur. I used this game as a supplementary follow up activity to consolidate students’ knowledge and use of short answers to yes no questions. The procedure of the game is the following:

1- On the board I wrote down names of different people and their professions. I used some pictures to present professions .

2- I explained the rules of the game as follows:

• A student is asked to stand in front of the class and answer his classmates’ questions.
• Other students in turn ask him/her about any person they choose from the list concerning his/her job. They have to use yes no questions. For example: is Leila a teacher?
• The answer must be in the form of a short answer without saying “yes” or “no”.
• The winner is the one who answers correctly the maximum of questions.
  
  This activity was a good opportunity to present new vocabulary items and manipulate yes no questions as well as short answers forms in an interesting, funny and contextualized way.Give it a trail, I’m sure your students will like it!.