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      |    Young Brit in China   |    |    Join Date: Feb 23rd, 2010  Location: Jinan, China  Age: 39  
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        Re: BINGO - totally confused            Quote:     
					Quote  bread_baker     There are different ways to play Bingo.  Here are some ideas: 
1. You call a word, the students look for the identical word on their bingo cards. 
2. You call a word, the students look for the definition on their bingo cards.  This can be done vice versa.  This is excellent for practicing vocabulary. 
3. You call a word, the students look for the picture on their bingo cards.  If you say "banana," the students look for the picture of the banana. 
Decide on a game based on whether you have adults or children in your classes, and their skill level. 
I always make a call sheet.  I make it in Microsoft Word using table commands.  Whatever I intend to call goes on the call sheet. 
I am careful to make bingo cards that are all different. 
Every person, including me, gets a paper cup with dried lima beans.  I call a word, and I put a bean on it.  Every student who has the word puts a bean on it.  The students try to get 5 words in a line: horizontally, vertically or diagonally.  When a person does, he/she shouts "Bingo!"  I tell all the students to keep the beans on their bingo cards.  I check the card of the one who claimed bingo.  If he/she is correct, I announce the winner.  If not, I point out the mistakes and the game continues.  To play a new game, the students take all the beans off their cards, I clear the call sheet, and we start again. 
I hope this helps.   |       so it is entirely luck based, no skill is required in winning (assuming you don't believe in being lucky)              |