Charade Game Analysis

Charade game is one of educational game that can be used in teaching vocabulary. According to Kaduson and Schaefer (2003) Charades is an excellent technique to facilitate the emotional education of the children (p.217). Besides, Teare (2006) states that charade game is a game miming the individual parts of a word (p. 217). It means that the technique use mime style to know the meaning of the words. In addition Allery (2009) states that Charade game is a game to make a mental image of a word to aid in recalling the word (p.149). It means charades technique can help students in improving vocabulary and can help the studnets to remember the words easier.

Based on the explanation above, the writer concludes that charade game is a game that able to help students know and memorize the meaning of the

You can have players working together in twos, threes or fours miming a situation or an activity while the others guess.
(Dayton, 1990, p.151)
Besides Maley and Duff (2007) proposes that the procedures by using Charades technique are:
1. You will need to explain, and then demonstrate, how charades works, the idea is that an individual (or group) has a word that they convey to others by miming and using sounds (but not words). Usually this is done by breaking the word into chunks and acting out teach chunk separately, if the word was tennis, you might show ten fingers, then point at your knees; if the word was humorous, you could start by laughing a lot, then point to yourself and others to show us; if the word was detestation, you could make a face showing hate/disgust, then mime waiting for a train at station.
2. When students have idea, divide them into groups of five. Give one word slip to one person in each group. This student then has to present the word as quickly as possible to the other group members.
3. As soon as groups correctly guess the first word, give out a different slip to another group member. Continue with the activity till everyone has had a