Irregular verbs bingo – free interactive cards

This irregular verbs bingo is an activity I designed for my adult students to help them memorize the verbs and pronunciation in a fun way. To add some challenge, the cards are all in phonetic transcription.

Objective: 

Students will memorize the most common irregular verbs and their pronunciation, besides getting familiar with phonetic transcriptions. 

Attention: Your students should have some familiarity with the irregular verbs in the past and, at least, have seen the IPA before playing this game. 

Instructions:

1 – Share the file with the students with permission to edit (as in the image bellow)

They need to open the slides in edition mode (do not select “present”)

2- Each student chooses one bingo card (there are 20 different cards)

3- The teacher says a verb in the present tense. You can use the spinner wheel or just choose a verb from the list linked at end of this page.

4- Students identify the past form of the verb using the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription in the cards. Using the bingo chips, they mark the verb. 

bingo chips, marker, coin

5 – The winner is the one that marks five spaces in the card as in the traditional bingo.

6 – to reuse the cards, you will have to reorganize the bingo chips. To do it very easily and quickly, follow this steps before you play the game for the first time

• file > history version > name current version

• I suggest you name this version: SAMPLE or TEACHER’s VERSION

• After  you play the games with your students:

• file> history version > see the version history

• Select the version you named. 

• Restore it.

Now you have all the cards and chips/markers organized. Ready to play again.

Download the cards and instructions

If you want more ideas how to use bingo as a teaching tool, this post might be interesting to you.