New Year’s Resolution Bingo

 

New Year’s Resolution Bingo: A Fun Way to Kickstart Your Goals!

Looking for an exciting and engaging way to embrace your New Year’s resolutions? Try New Year’s Resolution Bingo! This fun activity is perfect for family gatherings, classroom settings, or even a team-building exercise. It’s not only entertaining but also a great way to spark conversations about goals, dreams, and plans for the year ahead.

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What is New Year’s Resolution Bingo?

This game takes the classic concept of bingo and gives it a New Year’s twist! Instead of calling out numbers, players mark off resolutions, habits, or goals as they hear them mentioned by others or complete them themselves.

The game can include a mix of realistic resolutions ("Go to the gym") and humorous ones ("Train my cat to dance"), making it a fantastic icebreaker.

   

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How to Play New Year’s Resolution Bingo

1. Prepare the Bingo Cards:
   Create bingo cards with 3x3 grids filled with resolutions. Include a mix of serious goals and funny or quirky ideas to keep things lively. Each square contains a potential resolution, such as "Drink more water" or "Finally organize my closet."

2. Distribute the Cards:
   Hand out one card to each participant along with a pen or marker.

3. Game Play Options:

   • Conversation Style: Players take turns sharing their resolutions for the new year. If a player mentions a resolution that matches one on your card, mark it off!
   • Challenge Style: Players actively work on completing the resolutions over a period of time (e.g., a month), marking off the ones they achieve.
   • Random Draw: Write resolutions on slips of paper, draw them randomly, and read them aloud.

4. Win the Game:

   • The first player to complete a row, column, or diagonal shouts "Happy New Year!" and wins.
   • For extra fun, you can offer prizes like small treats or silly trophies.

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Why Play New Year’s Resolution Bingo?

• Motivational: It inspires players to think about their goals for the year.
• Interactive: Perfect for sparking conversations and sharing ideas.
• Customizable: Tailor it to any group with themes like health, travel, or career goals.
• Fun for All Ages: Kids and adults alike will love the mix of serious and silly resolutions.

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Ready to embrace your New Year’s goals with a dose of fun? Download these bingo cards and start playing today! CARDS

4 WAYS SPEAKING CARDS

 This set of 80 cards is designed to help practice speaking, encourage creativity, and develop grammar skills. The cards are divided into four categories:

1. Make a List of Three – Encourage brainstorming and explanation. For example, “Make a list of three favorite foods and explain why you like them.”
2. Compare Two Things – Focus on similarities and differences, using phrases like on the other hand or similarly. For example, “Compare two vacation spots and explain which is better.”
3. Imagine a Perfect… – Spark creativity and storytelling with scenarios. For example, “Imagine a perfect day off. What would you do, and why?”
4. Rank These – Practice prioritizing and justifying choices. For example, “Rank these three hobbies based on how relaxing they are and explain your ranking.”

    

   

How to Use the Speaking Cards: 

These 80 speaking cards are versatile tools designed to enhance fluency, critical thinking, and grammar in your lessons. Here are several ideas for how to use the cards in a classroom setting:

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1. Warm-Up Activities

Use the cards at the beginning of a lesson to spark discussion and engage students.

• Example: Have each student draw a card and respond briefly to introduce the topic.

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2. Pair or Group Discussions

Encourage collaboration by having students work in pairs or small groups.

• One student draws a card, answers the prompt, and the others ask follow-up questions.
• Alternatively, each group can rank ideas together, compare responses, or brainstorm lists collaboratively.

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3. Debate Practice

Use the “Compare Two Things” or “Rank These” cards for friendly debates.

• Assign two students opposing sides of a comparison and let them present their arguments.
• Example: “Which is better, summer or winter vacations? Why?”

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4. Role-Play Scenarios

For the “Imagine a Perfect...” cards, students can act out their responses or create mini-dramas.

• Example: “Imagine a perfect day at the beach. What happens?”

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5. Timed Speaking Challenges

Set a timer (e.g., one minute) and have students respond quickly to a card to improve fluency and spontaneity.

• Add a twist: Students must use specific vocabulary or grammatical structures in their answers.

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These cards provide flexibility and adaptability, making them ideal for a variety of teaching styles and proficiency levels. Whether used for warm-ups, focused grammar practice, or engaging group work, they are a fun and effective way to promote speaking skills in the classroom.

Grammar point you can practise with students:

Comparatives and Superlatives

• Focus on comparing items or ranking them.
  • Example: Rank these three animals (dogs, cats, birds) by intelligence and explain your ranking.
  • Grammar Target: Dogs are smarter than cats, but birds might be the most intelligent.

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2. Conditional Sentences

• Use "Imagine a Perfect..." prompts to practice first, second, or third conditionals.
  • Example: If I had a perfect day off, I would go hiking.

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3. Modal Verbs

• Practice modals like should, could, would, must, might to give advice, express opinions, or speculate.
  • Example: Compare two cities you’ve visited and decide which one you would recommend to a friend.

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4. Future Tenses

• Discuss plans and intentions using will, going to, or present continuous for the future.
  • Example: Imagine your perfect vacation next year. Where are you going, and what will you do?

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5. Gerunds and Infinitives

• Explore preferences and opinions by focusing on verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives.
  • Example: I enjoy reading books on vacation, but I prefer to listen to audiobooks on road trips.

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6. Relative Clauses

• Encourage the use of relative clauses to add detail.
  • Example: Imagine a perfect book to read on vacation. What type of story would it be, and who would the main character be?

This set of 80 speaking cards is a versatile and engaging tool designed to improve communication skills, creativity, and grammar usage in any classroom or learning environment.

• Encourages Fluency: Promotes natural speaking through thought-provoking prompts.
• Versatile Grammar Practice: Targets a wide range of grammatical structures, including comparatives, conditionals, modals, and more.
• Creative and Fun: Inspires imagination with unique tasks like ranking items, comparing options, and envisioning perfect scenarios.
• Time-Saving: Ready-to-use prompts save teachers preparation time while providing meaningful speaking opportunities.

This card set is a must-have for teachers looking to make their speaking lessons interactive, effective, and enjoyable! 

Here's the link to some exemplary cards: Free 12 cards

You can have the whole set for just 35zl.

IDIOMS AWAKENING!

 

Idiom-Infused Role-play Challenge

Teaching students at B2 and higher levels requires creativity and brings lots of challenges – this is what I like. At last, I have someone to practice phrasal verbs, idioms, and grammatical structures with. That is why I come here with the set of idioms infused into a role-play scenarios activity for you.

Objective

Students practice speaking fluently and using idioms naturally in context by acting out realistic or imaginative scenarios.

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Materials Provided

• 50 Scenario Cards: Each card provides a detailed situation.
• 50 Idiom Cards: Each card contains 4 idioms relevant to one specific scenario.

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Instructions

1. Divide the Class into Pairs or Groups

   • Organize students into pairs for two-person interactions or groups for more complex scenarios.

2. Distribute the Cards

   • Each pair/group draws one scenario card and the corresponding idiom card.

3. Understand the Scenario

   • Students read the scenario and discuss their roles (e.g., who plays which character, how the situation will unfold).

4. Learn the Idioms

   • Students review the four idioms on their card. If needed, they can discuss meanings and brainstorm ways to incorporate them into the dialogue naturally.

5. Plan the Role-play

   • Students take 5–10 minutes to prepare their dialogue. They should aim to include all four idioms during their interaction.
   • Encourage creativity in how they use the idioms, whether through humor, conflict, or problem-solving.

6. Perform the Role-play

   • Each pair/group performs their role-play in front of the class or another pair/group.
   • The rest of the class listens and notes which idioms are used.

7. Feedback and Discussion

   • Provide constructive feedback on:
     • Fluency and pronunciation.
     • How well the idioms were integrated into the dialogue.
     • Creativity in developing the scenario.
   • Discuss alternate ways to use the idioms or improve the dialogue.

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Optional Variations

• Audience Guess: After each performance, the audience guesses the idioms used.
• Improv Twist: Halfway through the role-play, introduce a new random idiom card that students must incorporate on the spot.
• Time Challenge: Set a timer (e.g., 3 minutes) for role-plays to encourage quick thinking and concise dialogue.
• Idiom Roulette: Add unpredictability to the activity.
  • Assign a group a scenario card.
  • Draw a random idiom card for them to use instead of the matching one.

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Learning Outcomes

• Improved ability to speak fluently and confidently in English.
• Enhanced understanding and usage of idiomatic expressions in context.
• Strengthened creativity and problem-solving skills during communication.

This activity is dynamic, fun, and promotes both individual and collaborative language growth.

The set of cards (scenarios and idioms) cost 35zl.