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A popular, fun, and easy vocabulary/listening exercise
with virtually endless variations, Listening Bingo is a great way to
invigorate a tired class (not to mention relieve a tired teacher!).
1. Divide the class into groups of three or four students, each with a blank bingo sheet. 2. Have the students fill the sheet with as many word related to a particular topic as they can. For beginning students, try names of countries, or sports, or provide a sheet already filled out with similar numbers (390, 3900, 39,000, etc.). 3. Do the activity just like a game of bingo by calling out the words or numbers until a group has five in a row. Variation: 1. Divide the class into two teams, each with a rolled up newspaper. 2. Put vocabulary or numbers on the board. 3. Call out a word or number and have one student from each team strike the correct word or number on the board. The first team to strike the correct word earns a point, and the newspaper is passed onto the next teammate. (for intermediate and higher level students, fill the board with words having the same prefixes, suffixes, or root words, such as con..., pre..., ...ist, ...ism, etc.) – Lesson Tip courtesy of Daniel Tessitore, Tokyo, Japan |