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1. Introduction 

 With the social progress and globalization of economic development, English, as the most popular language, has captured more and more attention from the public. Besides, the education department in 2001 enacted that the English should be added into the primary school curriculum. Therefore, English courses in primary grades have been generally set up in recent years. However, a great number of problems in primary school English teaching appeared at the same time, especially the problems of teaching grammar. 

 In the past few years, the learning situation of grammar has become worse. There are several reasons. First of all, many primary teachers not only believe that grammar learning is a waste of time and it is not so useful in primary English teaching practice, but also pay more attention to oral communicative ability after the new curriculum standards proposed, which causes more neglect in grammar teaching. Besides, the students' thinking does not fully develop and grammar is too abstract for primary students to understand. In addition, a lot of teachers just to teach grammar through the mother tongue and ask students to rote those abstract grammar rules. In those cases, grammar rules are too difficult for students to master and the effect of grammar teaching is not so good. There are many students who say and write chinglish sentences, which only consist of several words and have no grammar structure. Thus students losing a lot of marks on this when taking part in examinations.

 In order to improve this phenomenon, it is necessary to learn grammar rules carefully and English grammar learning should be put in a prominent position. Because learning English is just like building a house,only when the foundation of the house,namely grammar, builds well, can students make a good house, that is to say, learn English well.Therefore, only by learning grammar well can we speak authentic English like the locals. In recent years, the discussion about how to make grammar teaching better has not stopped and some experts gradually introduce the game teaching approach into English class. They intend to inspire students' interest to learn grammar and make grammar learning become vivid through the games. Then primary students are able to understand and master grammar easily. But how to use the games is not mature and systematic, so there are still many problems in grammar teaching , such as the inappropriate difficulty of the game design, unclear teaching goals and so on.