ELT+Technique+2+by+Emine+Düzövüt


 * Bingo **

ELT (English language teaching) continues to grow and as the industry expands, so do the resources available. Both online and offline sources offer a variety of techniques that you can use to introduce fun into your classroom at all levels of availability and age groups. ELT games are some of these techniques and using games in your ESL (English as a second language) classroom will boost your students' motivation and their language abilities. The most remarkable advantage of these games is the active learning. They make students be active both mentally and physically during the lesson. Bingo is one of the ELT games that is loved by children and adults alike and which can be adopted to practice and review just about any topic under grammar or vocabulary. This is also an advantage, because i t is important to provide and maintain variety. Practicing irregular verbs also works quite well in this format. You write (or elicit, depending on the level) a number of verbs on the board. You write the infinitive on the board but call out the irregular verb tense. Once the students have filled their cards you can call them out at random and the students cross out the words they chose. Like regular Bingo, the first to have their words in a row, X or four corners wins. There are a number of variations you can use to adapt to your students level and ability. With higher level students you can read a story out loud where they need to listen carefully to hear their verbs. With vocabulary you can get the students to choose their words, then with lower level students you show them the flashcard and with higher level you can read out the definition or a sentence with the vocabulary in use.


 * COMMENTS **


 * Comment by Esra CATE **

==== In my opinion, bingo is a very interesting and attractive game you can use with different age and proficiency levels of students. Thanks to this game, there will be a competitive environment that will lead students be more ambitious and eager to learn while having fun at the same time. The possbility of adjusting this game to different activities is one of the strongest advantages of 'Bingo'. It is also a useful strategy to grab students' attention to even boring, or scary (for students) subjects/topics, because they would feel that they are not just doing a simple, mechanical drill or activity but they are playing a game. It makes some difficult and complicated subjects for the students easier to handle, thus they become more motivated for further topics and tasks which makes the process of learning and teaching cheaper for both sides. ====


 * by Zafer Gedikli **

I think you are absolutely right Emine, I agree with your ideas. Since students like playing games during the lesson, this attracts student's attention to the topic and subject. We can use this technique in some boring lessons to attract student's attention. These games are also suitable for student's cognitive level. It is not beyond their level, students can understand and apply the instrucitons easily. Also, this game Bingo will be helpful because thanks to this game the topic and subject will be concrete in thier minds. As a result, this technique one of the useful techniques and we should use this in our future career.

//comment by hatice ekiz//
====//ı like this game and ı definitely agree with emine.To teach irregular verbs is hard issue in grammar but i think that this game will be useful during teaching.I know that students especially very young students like the games and the grammar hard for them. I am in the view of this game makes it easier. however i am thinking that prize at the end of each game can make the students addicted to the prize. therefore, the teacher should be careful during activity.//====