Teaching young learners is a very demanding issue that needs consideration. Research in Turkey
has shown that only 35% of pre-service teachers of English believe that their teacher education
curriculum prepare them as effective teachers of English that can teach young learners successfully
(Özkan & Arikan, 2010). This problematic issue is important because the teacher should come up with
the most suitable activities and tasks to teach young learners. As such, games are one of the best ways
to direct young learners’ energy not only to grammar learning, but also to many skills and areas of the
language. However, it should be taken into consideration that as they are young learners, teaching
them through games requires special effort from the teacher. Hence, two factors, namely, deciding
which game to use and deciding the time to use games need to be explained.