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I also find the title "Games" destructive to an ESL course for Chinese adults. I have found that my Chinese adult students will throw themselves into a "Challenge" or a "Group Discussion" or a "Team Effort". But call it a "Game" and I run the real risk of the complaint that, "We only play games". Parents of 16-24 year olds also often object to "games" during lessons - not being at all familiar with the actual content or aim of the lesson, just hearing that their offspring was "playing games" during their expensive lesson. In China with its one-child policy, people are regarded as kids until they are about 23. Likewise, the HR Managers of companies can prick up their ears when their employees are "playing games" during their ESL lessons.

I would agree that you need to do what gets you through the day. Calling your games 'language driven task competions' won't make what you do any different. But who really needs to be re-educated on this? the teachers?

Why should we stop calling them games?