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PeerThink Standard Sheet: Input/Method/Exercise
Based on RealGeM & GemTrEx, with adaptations referring to Blickhäuser & Bargen1
Name of the Input/ Method/Exercise
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Bingo
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Time/Duration
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15 to 30 minutes
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Target Group/Criteria for Access
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Youth aged between 12 and 18
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Material
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A Bingo-sheet and a pen for each student
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Learning Outcomes
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Knowledge
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- To get in touch with the other participants
- To learn names of the others
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Skills
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- To become sensitive regarding differences
- To experience the principle of reciprocity, what means to be in the position of an interviewer and an interviewee alternately
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Competencies
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- To ask for differences
- To see differences
- To accept differences
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Method Instruction
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Bingo is an easy game. The aim of the game is to fill out two rows in a bingo-sheet. The person who filled out two rows is the winner.
A row consists of five single boxes of questions which can be horizontal, vertical and diagonal. An example for a question is: Do you have 3 or more siblings? Do you like to listen to hip hop music? Or: Do you know what the Koran is and you can explain it in a few words?
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Step-by-Step Description
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First the facilitator introduces Bingo as a game that opens up the chance to get to know each other. You can ask the participants, if they know the common Bingo. Let the participants explain what they know.
Than you can show a bingo sheet to the group. Explain that in this Bingo each person can ask questions to the others and will be asked back by the other students. Give one example for a question: Do you like to listen to hip-hop music?
Point out that the questions are on different levels. The mission is to ask the other participants the questions in the boxes and to collect names in the particular box. Each participant can write a name of a person in the box if the question is answered with YES. The questioned persons should write the name themselves into the box. Each person may sign only once in each bingo sheet. If the player has filled out two rows, the game is finished. The winner shouts BINGO! Now they can read the two rows with the questions and the names of the person who gave the answers.
After finishing the game you can make a short debriefing with the following questions:
- Are all questions on the same level?
- Have some questions been difficult to ask?
- Were there some questions that were difficult to answer?
- What were easy and what were difficult questions/answers?
- What was easier: to ask or to be asked?
- Have you changed the row because you didn’t want to ask a certain question?
- What makes the difference between questions like “What is your favourite colour?” and “Do you live with a single parent?”
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Applicability
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| group size |
The group should not be smaller than 12 persons.
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| recommendation about point of time or process (e.g.“starter”) |
Bingo is a real starter
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Possible difficulties
- group situation
- point of process
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The participants should be able to read small statements on the Bingo-sheet.
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Comments and Experiences/Evaluation
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Even if the participants know each other quite well (e.g., a school Class) they like to ask the questions and give answers.
Bingo is a method to get to know each other. It is a real starter. But inside that you can use it got get a sensitisation for the difference between simple differences, for example a personal taste and power relations.
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Source/Author
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Bildungsteam Berlin Brandenburg e.V.
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Comment: In the question sheet “LGBT” is used. LGBT = LesbianGayBisexualTransgender
Plays a musical instrument or likes to sing:
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Do you like to cook?
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Used to live in another country than in the current one:
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Do you know what the Koran is and can you explain it in a few words?
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Likes to see soaps and TV series: |
Do you like to dance?
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Has friends living in other town districts than their own one:
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Lives together with a single parent:
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Has birthday in the current month:
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Likes to listen to hip-hop music:
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Has their own room in the flat:
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Speaks more than two languages:
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Can explain the equal of Christian and Moslem Religion:
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Likes to live in their local town district:
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Likes to play any kinds of ball games like soccer, basketball …:
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Wants to live abroad one day:
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Likes to go to school and can say at least one reason why:
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Can explain what heterosexuality means:
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Can explain what racism means:
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Is actually in love:
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Know what LGBT means and can explain it:
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Is connected with the internet at home:
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Has two or more sister and brothers:
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Has relatives who live abroad:
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Likes to travel to other countries:
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NOTE
1 Blickhäuser, Angelika / Bargen, Henning von (Hrsg.) (2006): Mehr Qualität durch Gender Kompetenz. Ein Wegweiser für Training und Beratung im Gender Mainstreaming. Königstein/Taunus.
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