Therefore, it’s obviously inseparable that the close relationship between games and interest. Moreover, interest is the best teacher. Teenagers of around 14 are in the significant change stage of psychology and cognition while it’s a definitely feasible chance that the teacher should take all means to stimulate responses and sensitivity to second language, build up self-confidence and establish correct view about English learning in order to sustain their interest in learning English. As Horace did, part of contemporary teaching ideas exactly is English for fun. Therefore, playing games in English class is widely available but problems always go with the emergence of new ideas.
2.1.2 Empirical Studies on the English game teaching at home and abroad
Based on Teaching Content and curriculum standards, Hu Chundong (1990:328) classified games into structure games, vocabulary games, spelling games, pronunciation games, number games, listen-and-do games, read-and-do games, writing games, role play and intelligence games.