Bing Bang
Bing Bang
Bing-bang game
1. Warm-up exercise
Stand up and form a circle. The teacher stands in the middle of the circle. He/she points at
somebody and says bing. The person who has been pointed, crouches down and his/her
neighbours shoot each other and say bang. If a player is wrong, he/she drops out of the game.
2. Bing-bang for learning languages
Stand up and form a circle. The teacher stands in the middle of the circle. He/she points at
somebody and says a category in English (eg. a famous painter, a country, a European country, a
city, a town in Great Britain, a verb). The person who has been pointed, crouches down and
his/her neighbours shoot each other and say a word in English which fits in the category. If a
player is wrong, he/she drops out of the game.
3. Bing-bang for revising a topic
This game is played in Lithuanian/Turkish/Spanish/. The players agree on a topic that can be a
topic of a subject (eg. history, literature, grammar etc.) Stand up and form a circle. The teacher
stands in the middle of the circle. He/she points at somebody and says a category within the
given topic (eg. the topic is Napoleon. The teachers questions could be: Where was Napoleon
born? Who won the battle of Austerlitz? What is the year of the battle of Waterloo? Who
commanded the Allied army? Who commanded the French army? Where has Napoleon been
exiled to?...). The person who has been pointed, crouches down and his/her neighbours shoot
each other and say the right answer. If a player is wrong, he/she drops out of the game.
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Hands-on Development Strategies in a Content -Centered
Context for Young and Adult Learners with Poor Basic Skills
in Literacy and Numeracy