Bingo! Likes and Dislikes

a flashcard game for kids learning English

Game instructions

what you need

To play this game, you will need a set of flashcards. Make your own cards or scroll down for our printables.
Our printables are in pdf format. To download them, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

more game ideas

Flashcards are great resources to play different learning games, such as matching, memory, drilling, guessing or indication activities. If you follow this link - Flashcard fun! - you will find lots of ideas and suggestions for using our cards in class or at home.

Our Bingo! cards are a fun way to build language skills. You can use them for introducing and practising vocabulary, and they are great to play word games.

how to play

This flashcard game idea can be adapted to any language concept (in this case, to our Likes and Dislikes topic). The instructions below are just a starting point to inspire you.

Our Bingo is adapted from the game of bingo, and it is a very simple version of this game. Depending on your needs, you can choose different ways of covering items on the board (pictures or words).
Give twelve flashcards plus four markers (e.g. buttons or pawns) to each player.
Kids place their cards face up on a table, then cover four of them with their markers.
The caller (teacher or student) calls out names for any of the flashcards at random.
Kids uncover each of their chosen cards that they hear the caller names.
The first person to uncover all four pictures calls Bingo!
He or she then becomes the caller and the game can be repeated.