My all-around, number-one favorite game.
Why?
Because it requires students to use all four skill sets: reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
Also, it can be adjusted to fit most time frames.
In addition, it provides the teacher an opportunity to review different sets of vocabulary.
Finally, it is also a useful way of practicing classsroom language.
I start by giving students a half-sheet of paper (The other side has been used, so it's being recycled).
I write on the white board 3 lines vertically and 3 lines horizontally, and tell them to do the same on the paper that I gave them (or, for a short/fast game, 2 X 2).
Then I tell the students what the vocabulary is; sometimes I refer them to pages in their text book, and sometime I write on the whiteboard. For example:
16 words
*8 Past tense verbs
*8 animals
It usually takes about 3 minutes for the students to fill in the vocabulary, and I help them, if needed, by writing on the whiteboard.
Then we begin. I select a student to go first. That student says a word from his/her grid, and the other students cross it off if they have it.
Then it's the next student's turn (I always have them go in a circular pattern around the classroom).
They have to use language like:
*It's Mike's turn
*Can you repeat that
*What was your word?
*That word is finished
When we played bingo in a class yesterday, I heard students saying, "You".
I stopped the game and said, "It's really not polite to say 'You'. It's much better to say 'It's your turn'."
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