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/^t/Games are a valuable teaching technique because primarily they are motivating and challenging. They help to evoke students' needs so they do not feel they have to do something but they feel they want to do it. One reason for this is that a game is not a stereotyped task. In Polish situation, they motivate students to use the target language where actual contact with native speakers is rare. Games are based on success and nothing is more stimulating than that. Thus, the students want to do their task as well as possible when they notice their self-image improves, which is of vital importance for adolescent learners. The positive attitude towards games, then, can be identified by students with the English course and language themselves. Furthermore, games motivate by the fact that they engage students' creativeness and the need to express ideas. Through games, the teacher motivates the class to employ its energies because they introduce variety. The essential ingredient of a game is challenge which is indispensable because learning a language requires a great deal of effort. Games help students make and sustain the effort of learning. They ensure maximum student's participation from both slow and fast learners. The challenge of the unpredictable can make language lessons far more exciting and help the students to be better prepared for coping with communication in the real world.