Posted on March 22, 2010.
Bingo Cards German Although the game of bingo, for most people, a hobby, it is true that the game can serve a serious purpose. Many teachers have found that bingo is well suited to adapt a teaching tool and have applied variations of the game to the teaching of many subjects, including mathematics, English and foreign languages.
In the case of foreign languages, bingo is primarily used in the practice of vocabulary. For example, courses in German language, it can be used as a method to encourage students to learn the translations of English words to German and German into English.
Before class, the teacher prepares a set of bingo cards, one per student, which contains the words that the teacher wishes to practice in this lesson. The words on the cards can be in English or German, but when the game is played, the teacher makes the bingo calls in another language - if the cards are printed in German, for example, the teacher is bingo calls in English. Students are trying to find translations bingo the teacher asks their bingo cards.
The key is of course a set of bingo cards containing words chosen by the teacher for the lesson. Obviously, this could be quite a few maps, plus all the needs of students their own unique maps. Preparing to hand it would be a big job, and would not be a good use of time the teacher - but there is an easy answer. Using a PC and software creator bingo card, the teacher simply enter a list of words, and the software can print the cards automatically.