A selection of English ESL people bingo printables

Students have to get signatures of people who the statements with phrasal verbs apply to. Good way to get students moving and checks their understanding of common phrasal verbs.

Phrasal Verbs People Bingo

I modified the people bingo by making students make tag questions using the descriptors in each box. This activity may help students remember that tag questions also serve as genuine questions and should be used with a rising intonation. 

People Bingo using tag questions

Bingo game that is great for a warm-up activity, encourages speaking and wakes the class up! It is a mingling activity where students have to walk around and chat with several partners in turn.

FInd Someone Who Bingo - Present Simple

This took forever to put together, but it was SO worth it! 



Includes 3 Bingo cards and 17 Role-play cards. 

I make everything in Open Office and then convert to Doc.. so check that everything looks right before using. 



Start the class with the 7 target questions on the board. 

I have the students ask me the questions and I answer them with the target answers. 

Students ask each other the questions in pairs, then report their partner's responses if there's time. 



Then I give the role-play cards. Students might need help with some pronunciations  You might have to teach "Spouse, Swahili, Unemployed, and Household."

 

Next I hand out the Bingo cards… I explain how to play by having students ask me the questions (I use the Taxi Driver card).  Go around and help them look for the info on their cards.  They figure it out quickly. 



Now students stand up and play!  Monitor for correct target language… 

I folded the top of the paper where the questions are when it looked like the students had started to memorize the questions. 



Once students have a BINGO (5 up and down, 5 left to right, or 5 across) they can sit down. They don't have to ask questions, but they still have to answer. 



After everyone has a BINGO, I have the students make sentences with their winning squares… ____ is a _____, ____ lives in_____, etc… 



This lesson was designed for 1 hour class of adult (mixed) beginners and a 2 hour class of (pre) beginners.  



7 Questions Talking Bingo with Role-play Cards

ADJECTIVES BINGO

This worksheet is a bingo game to practice 'Appearance' Vocabulary. The teacher names the words and the students find them in their cards. This game is suitable for elementary school students.

Describing appearance (Bingo game) 

ss are asked to walk around the room, interviewing their classmates so that the info requested is given. The first std to complete a row wins.

bingo people

A shorter version of my earlier worksheet with a couple of small improvements all on the subject of leadership. There is also a kahoot game available, now. This worksheet includes a mix-and-match section, bingo, gap-fill, an article about a historical figure in british history, an fce exam practice section, plus a debate. The answers are at the back. The link for the kahoot quiz is on the worksheet and can be accessed by copying and pasting the link below. Https://create. Kahoot. It/share/duplicate-of-phrasal-verbs-about-training-courses/7fcb8dc8-9407-4d05-9ea5-ec0d22e04e4f

Phrasal Verbs About Leadership - Short Version

Lets play bingo with the pirates! Print the templates as the number of your students. Then follow the instruction! They will have fun time while practicing their speaking skill about describing people's appearances! Just give a try!

LETS PLAY PIRATES BINGO!!!

Students are supposed to find a classmate with certain characteristics and write his/her name in the box. The first student to complete all the boxes is the winner.

Bingo game

The Find Someone Who Bingo Card is a great exercise for icebreaking in an esl class. The questions are broad enough that it should be applicable to most school age groups, but this was designed for P1-P4 (Hong Kong)

At this stage the pre-taught vocabulary should be sufficiant for students to ask the correct questions for the bingo game. 

Find Someone Who Bingo Card

This activity can be an icebreaker for ESL adult students to get to know the similarities and differences among themselves.  Teachers can ask students to work in pairs or in groups to ask each others questions based on the information in the bingo boxes.  They can write their names within the box which relates to them.

bingo

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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13 People Bingo English ESL worksheets pdf & doc