Third World Farmer: a game that improve students' ability and personality

       Third World Game is a serious game and it has a clearly story line about a family survive through many hardship. According to  A Comparison of Computer Game and Language-Learning Task Design Using Flow Theory, computer-mediated activities seem to offer clear advantages over conventional classroom lessons in providing on-task feedback. This is also one big advantage of this game: whenever you finish a turn, you will get a feedback immediately. I played 36 turns and I finally won.

        The success is really not that easy: they may encounter natural disaster, civil war and economic crisis and so on. Therefore, the family’s income is very unstable. Plus, I need to cure the family member’s health problem and life problem. It is just so hard to let the family live avoid suffering and live a happy life. However, it is not boring anyway. It not only has plantings like corn, wheat and nuts and so on. It also can make money through raising chicken, pigs or cattle. You can also use the farm appliance to explore the new farm. In a word, you never get bored of doing the same stuff. Through this procedure, students can learn large numbers of vocabulary, especially farm words like corn, wheat, pigs, cattle, chicken and peanuts… also the words like civil war, economic crisis or pig disease and so on. The students totally will enjoy the game outside the classroom without teachers’ guidance. Besides the acquiring the large vocabulary, the students can also learn about how hard to support a family in third world and how lucky they are and how wars can be harmful to a normal family. In a word, this game will enhance students’ description ability in an ESL classroom as well as broaden their vocabulary.I will assess the students by letting them write a reflection about their experience while using the vocabulary they acquired during the game.
       This game would be very useful in ESL classroom and  I would like to implement this game in my future teaching career.