Bingo

This is a game where students have different cards that consist of squares.  The teacher has a list of the objects in the squares, and reads it until a student gets a complete line of squares (vertically, horizontally, or diagonally).  The student says "Bingo" and repeats the objects back to ensure that it is correct.  It is good for targeting reading and listening at the same time for the alphabet, numbers, or vocabulary.

Required Materials

1) A list of items to cover

2) Bingo cards (an excellent Excel spreadsheet for generating cards is here).  A picture of cards generated using this spreadsheet for learning Arabic letters and sounds is below.

Instructions

1) Create the bingo cards for your class and distribute them to your class

2) Read the words until someone gets "Bingo"
3) Ask them to read the words back to make sure they really have "Bingo"

Variations

Bingo can be adapted in many different ways to target different language skills.  The most traditional way is to put numbers in each square.  You can also put words, as in the picture above.   Or, you could put pictures in each square, and read off vocabulary words, or you could put words, and display pictures on a screen.  You can also have each student read a word off your list to give them more practice rather than reading them all yourself.