Lesson made by Phillip JJ Scheir

Lesson Plan # 5: Animal Bingo Part 1 – Lesson Plan
Class level: Elementary – High school / Lesson Time: 55 minutes
English level: Beginner to Advanced / Expected number of students: 20 - 40
Context: The names and characteristics (physical for beginners, behavior for advanced) of animals
Teaching aids: White/chalk board (alternative to making flashcards is to draw pictures on the board, cover with paper and reveal pictures during lesson), animal flashcards (Pictures used for these flashcards were found on the internet and not drawn by the author of this lesson plan)
Learner objectives:
For all students to be able to use English to state the names of animals and for advanced students to also use English to describe the physical characteristics and behaviors of the animals. Practice correct pronunciation. / Teacher aims:
Involve all students in an engaging lesson.
Teach a fun lesson with a game that adapts to the learner’s abilities.
Procedure / Phase / Timing
Before class starts, if you chose not to use the flashcards you will need to draw pictures on the board of the animals you will use during your lesson. You should cover the drawings of the animals and reveal them as you introduce them during the lesson.
Ask the students what animals they know. Also ask them to describe the animals.
Show the flashcards to the class one at a time. (Advanced English classes can use all 25 of the flashcards, intermediate and beginning levels can use fewer.) (1) Ask the class to say the animal displayed on the flashcard. (2) The teacher models the correct pronunciation by reading flashcard. (3) The class reads the flashcard.
Make student bingo boards.
1. Demonstrate to students how they need to each fold a piece of 8 inch by 11 inch bond paper four times to get their papers folded into nine squares of equal size for their Bingo game board. (See the diagram below this lesson plan).
Either place the flashcards on the board for students to see or write the names of the animals onto the board.
*(If you laminate the flashcards you can place self-sticking magnets on the back of the cards so that they stick to the chalk/white board).
2. Have students make their bingo game cards by randomly writing one animal name into each of the nine game spaces on their folded paper.
Play animal bingo with the class.
** If you chose to write the names of the animals on the board, you can write the names while the students are making their bingo cards.
Shuffle the animal flashcards and pick one animal flashcard at random to play bingo with the class.
***Students can mark their called squares by placing a small check or x in the corner of the called square. The teacher should demonstrate how to make a small mark in the called square so that the cards can be used for multiple games throughout the lesson.
Two types of bingo.
Start by playing one or two games that are won by the students having three called animals in a row on their bingo card.
Continue the animal bingo lesson by playing Blackout Bingo, where to win the game all animals on the card must have been called.
When a game is won, the student who called Bingo needs to read the animals they have on their card that won them the game.
End the lesson by having two or three students review the flashcards with the class as a whole group. / Engage
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Diagram of how to fold paper into nine equal sized rectangles:

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