Bing-Bang

  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.

  1. Bing-bang game variations

2.a 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.

2.b 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 teacher’s 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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