This document provides instructions for playing a game called Ability Bingo in the classroom. Students walk around and ask their classmates yes or no questions about abilities listed on a bingo card. For abilities they can do, students find a classmate who can demonstrate and write their name in the matching box. For those they cannot do, they write the name of a classmate who also cannot. The first student to fill in five names in a row wins. The bingo card lists various physical, linguistic, and skill-based abilities.

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Ability Bingo
Walk around the classroom and ask your classmates if they can do the things on the Bingo Card.
Ask yes/no questions using can, e.g. “Can you wiggle your ears?”
For boxes with can, find a classmate who answers “Yes, I can.” Write that student’s name in the appropriate box and if possible ask them to demonstrate their ability.
For boxes with can’t, find a classmate who answers “No, I can’t.” Write that student’s name in the appropriate box.
The first student to have five names in a row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally wins.
Ability Bingo Card
Can wiggle
his /her ears
Can speak
3 languages
Can play
chess
Can whistle
the Happy
Birthday song
Can name 3
countries
in Africa
Can play a
stringed
instrument
Can bake
a cake
Can name 3
countries in
South America
Can run 100
meters in 15
seconds
Can play
wind
instrument
Can't say a
tongue twister
Can tell a joke
in English
Can make an
origami bird
Can stand on
his / her head
Can play
golf
Can eat with
chopsticks
Can swim
Can ride a motorbike
Can spell the
capital of
Vietnam
Can say the alphabet backwards
Can spell the
teacher's
last name
Can hold his /
her breath for
45 seconds
Can hop
backwards on
one foot
Can ice skate
Can ride a
Skateboard
Written by Katie Newton for Teach-This.com ©2012