Bingo+ideas

I've used this simple Bingo board for many different things in the classroom. Many people think of Bingo as sitting and listening, but there are so many ways to turn it into oral practice. My classes of Spanish 1 are mostly sophomores and juniors who are fitting Spanish in at the end. They don't respond well to partner info gaps where they just sit there. They like these types of activities because they can get up and talk to everyone without reading cues off of a little sheet of paper.

For age, I gave the students a range of numbers that they could fill their board in with (1-50). Obviously on a board of 25 squares they can't fit them all.

Next, I passed around a bag with little papers with numbers on them. The students each took one and had to keep it a secret.

After they had their boards filled in with numbers and they each had their number, they next had to pretend that they really were the age of the number that they drew.

They were to go around the room and ask each other "How old are you" in Spanish. The person that they asked would have to answer according to the number that they drew.

Once a student found someone with a number that was on their board, they simply had to cross it off and write their classmate's name inside the box.

The first few students to get a bingo got a point of E.C. on the tener quiz.

You can set this up in any way that you want. It would work with nationalities, ser adjectives, or anything really. It's just another way to get them talking :)

Here's my board, but you can make yours however you want!