Since Human Bingo is only designed to be a starter, I was looking for an activity where students can have extended conversations and learn about their classmates in greater depth. I wanted to do something fun, yet well-structured at the same time while giving plenty opportunity for the students to talk and listen to each other.
I thought of typing a list of questions, print them on small index cards, and randomly assigned the cards to the students, but I have done that too often by now. So using the same idea, I decided to use a deck of cards as a tool!
I call it: Conversation cards
- Depending on the grade level of the students and time allotment, make a list of questions consisting of min. of 13 questions (# of cards in a suit) for your students to ask each other.
- Assign each question to the cards in the deck (see example of questions). You could make as little as 13 questions and as many as 52 questions.
- Shuffle the cards and distribute them to the groups of students (adjust the size of the group based on your class size; to me the smaller the better as it allows more in-depth conversations that follow the Q&A's sessions).
- Give each group the list of questions the correspond to the cards.
- Extended activity: ask the students to share their findings about their peers
- A follow-up activity: ask the students to write appropriate questions that they'd like to ask their peers and include that in the list.
I used this game with a group of adult ESL learners (intermediate level) and they had a lot of fun with this conversation game. I made many 'what if' questions and 'describe a scenario' type of questions. I surprised when I heard that they asked many follow up questions and they were clearly engaged in very interesting and stimulating conversations.
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