This is a great game to start using only English. You can demonstrate everything and the language is very intuitive. You can already use this game after teaching them a few colours. It also allows for a lot of extra language.
Key language forms:
- Can I have blue, please?
- I have / I don’t have
- What colour is it?
Additional language forms:
- Who wants to be the teacher? / Who is next? / Whose turn is it?
- How many do you have?
- How many do you need?
Possible variations:
numbers, objects with certain colours (yellow sun, green grass, purple plum).
Higher levels:
For higher levels this game becomes a critical thinking, spelling and peer learning exercise.
First, students will make their own 3-by-3 Bingo card following your instructions (critical thinking).
Next, each student creates his own bingo card by writing 9 vocabulary words in the 9 squares, e.g 9 body parts, 9 action verbs or 9 jobs (vocab review & spelling exercise).
And finally, before starting the game, students check each others bingo cards for spelling mistakes (peer learning). They will do this, because the whole class will win a prize, if, and only if, the first student who has ‘BINGO!’ will have no mistakes on his/her bingo card.
Instructions for making a 3 x 3 bingo card:
Give the students an A4 paper and tell them to:
- fold once to make a square and cut off the part you don’t need
- fold 2 times to make 3 rectangles the same size
- again, fold 2 times to make 9 squares the same size
Tags:
#instructandconstruct, #writingatesttogether
I played the game with a group of third graders today, they loved it. They happily banged the table, when they didn’t have a chosen colour and shouted :I don’t have…
Excellent, Gabriela! And there is no need to translate it. They know exactly what they are saying, because they act out the emotion they feel.
Hrala som hru v 4. ročníku a cieľom bolo precvičiť gramat. štruktúru ” like + -ing”. Inšpirovala som sa spôsobom, ktorý použila Libuška, keď bola v Svite.
Rozdelila som deti do 4 skupín po 4. Prvá skupina sa postupne pýtala : What do you like doing? Deti z druhej skupiny postupne losovali kartičky a pantomimicky predviedli aktivitu. Tretia skupina musela uhádnuť aktivitu, utvoriť vetu a posledná skupina vetu zapísala na tabuľu s použitím 3. os. j.č.
Keď sa vystriedali všetci zo štvorice, skupinky si vymenili úlohy.
Keď sme na tabuli mali 6 viet ( viac sme nestihli) zahrali sme Bingo.
Myslím, že to bolo super oživenie, deťom sa hra páčila.
Ja by som sa chcela ešte zamerať na to, aby deti boli viac zapojené. Aby sa rýchlejšie striedali, teraz traja čakali, kým štvrý hovoril / písal/ hral pantomímu …
Skvelý tip na hru, ďakujem 🙂 !
Sounds like a great and dynamic add-on to the original colour bingo. Now that you know how to do it, you might try having 2 groups going parallel and if that works, the next time 4 groups going at the same time. It might make it a bit more difficult to organize and check, but you can still check the final outcome on the board and you will have more sentences on the board for the bingo game.