Bingo

Author: Petra | June 21, 2013

Bingo is a game of chance originally played with randomly drawn numbers (1-99) that have to be mached against numbers pre-printed on bingo cards. The game ends when first player manages to match five numbers in a row from the drawn numbers, and the winner is usually required to call out the word „Bingo!“. So the first theme that comes to our minds are numbers, but like other word learning games, Bingo! also offers lots of possibilities to practice the new words.

Playing Bingo in language lessons

The fastest way to play Bingo! in class is to have each student randomly draw 5 pictures belonging to the topic they are learning to name in the foreign language. The players play in pairs, trying to guess all the words the opponent has drawn:

For greater excitement, the whole class can be involved in the same game. If we devide the class in 2 ggroups, we'll need two big Bingo! cards drawn on the (black)board or on 2 big sheets of paper on the floor. The students can participate in preparing the cards by randomly drawing the pictures in the fields of the cards according to teacher's dictation. They get to choose themselves in which field they'll draw each picture, with the final scope to get 2 completely different Bingo! cards. 1 student is chosen to read aloud the words. To ensure his impartiality, each word is written – or drawn – on separate peace of paper. This can also be pepared by another group of students. The pieces of paper are placed in a small bag, from which he'll randomly draw them.

Bingo! Card Templates

To help you quickly prepare a Bingo! game to practice whatever topic you're currently covering with your students, please check out these 3 templates:

PetraLingua Bingo Template 3x3

PetraLingua Bingo Template 4x4

PetraLingua Bingo Template 5x5

PetraLingua Bingo! Game Suggestion

Or, if you want to start playing right away, you can use our big 5x5 PetraLingua Bingo! cards to repeat the words from many different topics. To prepare the words you'll put in the bag to draw from, just cut out each card from one template.