Bingo Animals
Bingo Animals
Bingo Animals
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ACTIVITY NOTES
Bingo is an old classic, a tried and tested game in the ESL classroom which
combines vocabulary review with listening practice. Try the steps below for
“Picture Bingo” a fun, rewarding activity your students will love.
(1) Give each student one Bingo card*. For a class size of ten or fewer
students, each student will get a different card (numbered between 1
and 10) and there will be only one winner. For more than ten
students, there will possibly be two winners in the class (two sets of
cards between 1 and 10).
(2) Instead of simply calling aloud the words, give definitions of each of
the words**. For example, “It’s small, green, has four legs and swims
in water.” [Answer: turtle] As the students listen, they can circle the
correct pictures (for more advanced groups, they can try to write the
words next to the pictures).
(3) You can set whatever winning criteria you like: the first person to get
one line across is the winner; the first person to get two lines; the first
person to get one vertical line and one horizontal line; etc. Make sure
the ‘winner’ can tell you the English names of the animals in the line.
(However, since all the cards contain the same 24 pictures, do not
attempt to have your students be the first to fill the entire card!)
Consider some kind of small reward for the winner(s).