Question Bingo is the perfect way for ESL students to practice asking and answering questions. Write a question into each square of a Bingo card. Students would then walk around the room and ask another student the question. The other student would respond by answering the question and then signing the square on the Bingo card.
Students can help each other if one student doesn’t understand the question or doesn’t know how to answer. Once everyone has completed the entire Bingo card with twenty-four different names, everyone sits down.
The teacher pulls out a Popsicle stick with a student’s name and asks a question. That student answers the question. Everyone can then place a marker on that student’s name or that question. The student that answered the question then pulls the next Popsicle stick and asks a new question. This continues until someone yells Bingo.
The student who calls out Bingo has to ask all the questions that created the win. The students who signed in those spaces have to answer the question they signed.
This is a great way for students to get to know each other. Here are some questions to use with beginning second language learners:
- What is your first name?
- What is your last name?
- Where are you from?
- How old are you?
- Where do you go to school?
- Who is your teacher?
- How old are you?
- What grade are you in?
- What room are you in?
- How many people are in your family?
- When is your birthday?
- What is your favorite color?
- How many brothers do you have?
- Who is the principal?
- What is your favorite animal?
As the year progresses, you can use questions that review content learned in the classroom. You can have twenty-four science questions that will be on a test.
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