What Did You Do On The Weekend? ESL Printable Bingo Cards

What did you do on the weekend? is something I often ask my students. Unfortunately here in China, the response  90% of the time is...HOMEWORK, I only do homework.

So a goal of mine is to often try to make students see that they do actually do a lot of other stuff, it just may be that they discount things as being too dull, simple or not important.

I'm a firm believer in all the little stuff counting, so, to get more than the usual answer I designed this worksheet and Bingo game to get the students to take part in a larger discussion of possible answers.

I basically run the lesson like this...

Hand out the "I had a Great Weekend" (available in the downloads section)  survey worksheet and get the students to mingle asking the different questions. For example...

Get the free download that includes these worksheets, Bingo cards, and interactive free PPT game...YES totally free!

Student 1 - Did you go to a restaurant on the weekend? Student 2) Yes I went to a restaurant.

The past tense answer is listed for student 1 on the worksheet, so that they can listen out for the correct response and correct if the student gets it wrong. If Student 2 answers Yes to the question, Student 1 can write that students name in the adjoining column.

The aim is to get as many different names for as many different answers as possible.

The second part of the lesson - I get the students to cover their answers and try to remember who did what. This can be done by simply getting one student to stand and say another students name. The student then asks them one of the questions hoping for a correct answer. If student 2 says yes I......whatever....Student 1 can sit down and Student 2 has to call another students name and ask them a question. IF however Student 2 replied NO I didn't do that...then student 1 stay standing and call another name continuing in this fashion.



The Other Way To Do Part Two Of The Lesson - The bingo cards have a matching PPT Game that is totally free for you to download.

Both the worksheet questionnaire and the bingo cards are available with the PPT game and flashcards etc, as a totally free "What Did You Do On The Weekend?  PPT Game bundle" .

ENJOY!

 

Waygook: Another Awesome ESL Site

Here's a little heads up for you if you don't already know about this website I found called Waygook. It's an ESL website, based in Korea. It is the most up to date, with the times ESL ideas site I've come across, except for mine of course!

The main strength of Waygook lies in the strong fold of teachers adding the most awesome P.P.T  E.S.L game templates that you can find anywhere on the internet, and it's free!

What Does Waygook Mean?

Apparently "Waygook" or "Waygookin" means foreigner in Korean. For those of you based in China, like myself, it is the equivalent to "Waiguoren" or "Laowai".

Registering and Signing-Up

You can register and sign up. This allows you to scan the forums for all kinds of ideas and discussions about teaching ESL. As I say, it is based in Korea, so some of the activities are geared that way (as in having Korean translations), but most times it is easy to edit the templates tweaking to adjust to your own needs.  I highly recommend this site.

Many Cool ESL P.P.T's

The amount of quality game p.p.t games will blow your mind. Bomb games, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Family Feud,  Wheel Of Fortune, Quizzes....I could go on forever. I'm spending this week teaching a "Reveal the Picture P.P.T" that I picked up from Waygook... my kids are absolutely loving it.

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Now I should be trying to keep you all at my site for ideas (and not be so kind as to keep sending you to others websites) but I truly know how taxing it can be finding really good ESL activities, so please show a little kindness back. You can show your support just by joining in the forum or adding some comments and keeping a watch here at ESL-TASTIC. I will keep providing the best games, lesson ideas, links, ideas and products that I come across. Thanks for dropping by! Oh yeah here's the Waygook link - Cool ESL Powerpoints.