German: Mit Bingo Zahlen Lernen

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share a simple and fun activity you can use to help students practice their numbers in German. Bingo is a game that most everyone is already familiar with and the activity requires little in the way of preparation. The instructor can either have the students prepare their own bingo cards or present the students with ones that have already been prepared. Full directions are listed below the activity. I find that this activity works very well as a review activity before a quiz or test which will contain numbers. Another nice feature of Bingo is that it generally does not take very long to do and thus you can in fact do several rounds of Bingo in a single class session without devoting the entire time to this activity.

Mit Bingo Zahlen (1-100) Lernen

       B                 I                N                G               O

		Frei

Directions: Before the game, students fill out their Bingo cards from a range of numbers for each letter. Students must write the number out – no numerals. The ranges are listed below. The instructor then calls out numbers randomly until a student has a Bingo. The student must read aloud his/her numbers (in German of course!) to make sure that they match numbers called by the instructor. To add further practice for the students you can have the first student who gets a Bingo and successfully reads their numbers come to the front of the classroom and take over the teacher's role by reading further numbers for the class. After 3-4 Bingos it is advisable to have students make new cards.

B = 1-19

I  = 20-39

N = 40-59

G = 60-79

O = 80-100