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ESL / EFL RESOURCES Countries and Nationalities Bingo

Activity Type Introduction

Listening, matching and In this fun teaching activity, students play games of bingo to
speaking activity practice countries and nationalities.

Procedure
Language Focus
Give each student a bingo card.
Countries and
nationalities
If there are more than 16 students, you can give two students the
same card or have students share a card.
Aim
Explain that you are going to call out nationalities and that if the
To match nationalities to students have the corresponding country on their bingo card, they
countries. cross it out. When a student has crossed out all nine countries,
they shout 'Bingo'.

Preparation Call out nationalities at random from the caller's sheet and put a
tick in the box next to each nationality you call out.
Make one copy of the
bingo cards for every
When a student shouts 'Bingo', ask them to say the countries on
16 students per round
their card and the corresponding nationalities.
you wish to play. Cut the
cards out as indicated.
If the countries and nationalities are correct, the student wins the
Also, make one copy of
round. If not, continue the game.
the caller's sheet.
As an alternative or extension, divide the students into groups of
As an alternative or
five and give each group 16 bingo cards and a copy of the caller's
extension, make one
sheet.
copy of the bingo cards
and caller's sheet for
Students then play the game amongst themselves with group
each group of five.
members taking it in turns to be the bingo caller.
Cut the cards out as
indicated.
The game continues until all the bingo cards have been used.

Level
Pre-intermediate

Time
20 minutes

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 COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Countries and Nationalities Bingo

Malaysia Holland Wales Peru Ethiopia Chile

Finland Spain Sri Lanka Thailand Slovakia Vietnam

Zimbabwe Taiwan Cuba Singapore China Australia

Sweden Egypt Turkey Ecuador Swaziland Japan

Mexico Chile South Africa Nepal Bhutan Finland

Germany Iraq Portugal Myanmar Italy Poland

The United
Lebanon Britain Hungary Oman Brazil
States

Singapore Ireland Peru Laos Switzerland India

Bhutan France Italy Belgium Thailand Maldives

Norway Japan Myanmar Chile Britain Greece

Taiwan Malaysia Nepal Bangladesh Laos Sweden

Australia Scotland Britain Egypt Russia France

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 COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Countries and Nationalities Bingo

Ireland Mexico Italy Singapore Bhutan Egypt

Maldives Nepal Bhutan Zimbabwe Lebanon Finland

Portugal Taiwan India Germany Wales Chile

Sweden Swaziland Chile Japan Sri Lanka Maldives

Holland France South Africa Malaysia Peru Singapore

The United
Egypt Russia Ecuador Poland Turkey
States

Slovakia Spain Myanmar Hungary Finland Brazil

Vietnam Britain Ethiopia Cuba Switzerland China

Australia Malaysia Chile Belgium Britain Greece

Britain Japan Myanmar Australia Oman Thailand

Taiwan Sweden Nepal Bangladesh Laos Peru

Scotland Laos Iraq Norway Italy France

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 COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Countries and Nationalities Bingo

American Ethiopian Lebanese Slovak

Australian Finnish Malaysian South African

Bangladeshi French Maldivian Spanish

Belgian German Mexican Sri Lankan

Bhutanese Greek Nepalese Swazi

Brazilian Dutch Norwegian Swedish

British Hungarian Omani Swiss

Burmese Indian Peruvian Taiwanese

Chilean Iraqi Polish Thai

Chinese Irish Portuguese Turkish

Cuban Italian Russian Vietnamese

Ecuadorean Japanese Scottish Welsh

Egyptian Laotian Singaporean Zimbabwean

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American Ethiopian Lebanese Slovak

Australian Finnish Malaysian South African

Bangladeshi French Maldivian Spanish

Belgian German Mexican Sri Lankan

Bhutanese Greek Nepalese Swazi

Brazilian Dutch Norwegian Swedish

British Hungarian Omani Swiss

Burmese Indian Peruvian Taiwanese

Chilean Iraqi Polish Thai

Chinese Irish Portuguese Turkish

Cuban Italian Russian Vietnamese

Ecuadorean Japanese Scottish Welsh

Egyptian Laotian Singaporean Zimbabwean

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