Mind Games

Mind Games is a website that offers a variety of games to challenge our minds. The different types of games include brain games, math games, puzzle games, word games, sudoku puzzles, and memory games. To practice one's English, you can play the games featured in word games category. You can practice your spelling and vocabulary by playing these games.

An example of the word games this website offers is the Word Wipe. This game, like the other games is easy to play. You just need to follow the simple instructions on the screen. However, as you advance further and your rankings increase, so will your level. The complexity of the game starts here. The higher your level is, the more complex the challenges would be. For this game, the instructions are simple, no matter how high your level is. You are required to join adjacent letters to form words and a time limit would be assigned. You need to create as many word as you can within that time limit. The more words you are able to create, the higher your mark would be and the higher your mark is, the more likely for you to advance a level higher.

This website benefits both the teachers and students. In English classes, for example, as a side activity to gain the students' attention again after a lengthy lesson, the teacher can assign them to play these word games to test their spelling and vocabulary. As the students play the game, the teacher can walk around the class and monitor their progress and give commentaries where it is due. This can help the students to relax and enjoy for a brief moment all the while gaining something from that period of time they spent resting.

This tool is indeed beneficial for ESL teachers as they provide a more interactive approach than the traditional method of teaching. In a traditional classroom, the teacher is the dominant figure and the students would only listen majority of the time. By using this website, teachers would be able to initiate interaction in the classroom, be it among the students or between the students and the teacher, making it more lively like how a language classroom should be This is because, the games provided on this website can be played both individually or in a team. Learners differ in their method of acquiring knowledge. Some learners are more visual while some are more auditory. The games in this website have both of those features incorporated into them. While there is no method that could cater to the needs of every students in one classroom, the many interactive, interesting features on this website could at least help the learners learn in their own way without falling behind their other classmates.

You do not need to sign up or create an account to access the games. It is also free to use for everyone.