Speech Activity - Speech Bingo

Level: Intermediate and up

Task Type: Sharing Information

Time: 20 minutes

Materials: bingo card with names of your students

Part 1: Have your students split into pairs and have a discussion. Ask them to tell each other 2-5 facts about themselves. For example, Paul says how he loves history or Katrina says she has been to Haiti.

Part 2: Following the discussion distribute the bingo cards with your student’s names on them. To fill in a square, each student must speak with the partner of the name they wish to fill (not with the person directly). To fill in Paul’s square, the student must speak with Paul’s partner who will in turn tell them what they learned about them (Paul loves history. Write down “history” in Paul’s square).

Students should be moving about and interacting with each other. The winner is the first one to fill an entire row of the bingo card.

Example Bingo Card:

Paul	Katrina	Myka
LaRae	Landon	Matthew
Robyn	Brooke	Texas

Bibliography

Barton, M. (n.d.). Reported Speech Bingo – Speaking Activity (ESL/EFL). Retrieved September 10, 2018, from https://www.englishcurrent.com/speaking/reported-speech-bingo-speaking-esl/