(4) Special People in Our Eyes

c. Bingo Game
Vocabulary Adjectives to describe personalities / qualities of people:
Items brave, caring, generous, gentle, good-tempered, loving,
kind-hearted, funny, humorous, patient, helpful, thoughtful,
super, smart, bright, clever, wise, friendly, sociable, polite
Verb phrases to describe people and relationships:
(never) scold people, give away things, (never) give up,
(never) get angry, (never) lose temper, (never) shout at
people, share with others, tell funny jokes, make people
laugh, do marvellous tricks, do difficult sums, answer all
questions, make funny faces, make friends, go to parties,
meet people, spend time teaching people, speak softly,
rescue people, think about people’s needs

Activity Description
Pupils play a bingo game to revise adjectives for describing personalities / qualities of
people and the related verb phrases.

Materials
Bingo cards with verb phrases that describe people and relationships

Procedures
1. The teacher explains what a bingo game is.
2. Pupils get different bingo cards with verb phrases that describe people and
relationships.
3. The teacher reads out an adjective to describe personalities / qualities of people
(e.g. gentle). Pupils have to circle the related verb phrase(s) (e.g. never shout at
people, speak softly) and write down the adjective in the bingo square(s).
4. The teacher continues to read out other adjectives and pupils get a bingo when
they have four circles in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. They have to
form four sentences and read them out (e.g. Gentle people never shout at people.
Brave people rescue other people. Good-tempered people never get angry.
Sociable people like to make friends).

never shout at meet people do difficult sums never lose temper

people

gentle good-tempered
speak softly rescue people tell funny jokes give away things

gentle brave
spend time go to parties never get angry make people laugh
teaching people

sociable good-tempered
make funny faces never scold people think about make friends
people’s needs
gentle
good-tempered sociable

Teaching Notes
More able pupils can be asked to make the bingo cards for one another. The teacher
can hand out bingo cards with empty squares and guide them to write the related verb
phrases to describe personalities / qualities of people.
 The teacher reads out an adjective to describe personalities / qualities of people
(e.g. gentle) and pupils write the related verb phrases (e.g. never shout at people,
speak softly) in any of the bingo squares they like.
 The teacher continues to read out other adjectives and pupils fill in the bingo
squares till the whole grid is filled.
 The teacher collects the bingo cards and gives one to each pupil randomly to play
the bingo game as in steps 1 to 4 above.