I have found using bingo cards to be useful in class: it is a fun, possibly interactive game, and it lends itself to being checked and therefore error correction, unlike other games.
I use bingo cards to either practice vocabulary or grammar. With vocabulary, the students are often just identifying words or pictures. For grammar, I generally have phrases like " wants to study business" or " wants to travel the world," if we were practicing "want to", for example. The students then have to walk around and find someone for whom each sentence is true. As a side note, I have also seen this used both in language classes and general meetings as a fun icebreaker.
Depending on how big your class is, there are two sites I would recommend:
1) Print-Bingo.com is the more convenient site, I believe, but you only get ten different cards. You type in the phrases or words you want, and there is always a free space in the center. Also, all the cards go straight to a PDF and you can just print them out.
2) Teachnology seems to give you an unlimited number of bingo cards, but they give you one at a time. I have copied and pasted the cards onto a Word document to print them out. Another issue is that the free space appears anywhere in the bingo cards, so that is different than a normal bingo game.
Oh, we can customize our own bingo games and the sites make everything and we only have to print them out! Cool. I used Bingo game a lot in my class too. It is easy to incorporate into any levels and engaging for all students. In my teaching, I did not provide already complete bingo cards, but had my students fill out them from a word list I provided. It not only worked quite well, but it also worked as a writing practice.
ResponderEliminarThanks for sharing the sites, Amy! I never used bingo in my classroom. But, as you say it might make learning grammar structures more easy and fun. I like that you can create your own cards and customize them according to the requirements of your learners. I would love to try this in the future.
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