'What's the Matter?' Bingo Game

The What’s the Matter? Bingo Game is a classroom-ready language game designed to help students practise and revise health and wellbeing language through listening, recognition and visual support.

Designed to match the What’s the Matter? resource set, this game provides a structured and engaging way for students to consolidate language used to talk about feeling unwell, injuries and visiting the sickroom during whole-class or small-group activities.

What’s included

• 1 full-colour caller card featuring health and wellbeing language
• 20 student bingo cards, each with a unique layout
• Clear, child-friendly visuals to support recognition and recall

How the game is used

• Whole-class revision of health-related language
• Small-group bingo games
• Reinforcement of language used to describe how you feel
• Listening and matching practice

Repeated exposure to familiar health phrases in a game format helps students build confidence, accuracy and comprehension while remaining actively engaged.

Pair with matching resources

This game pairs with What’s the Matter? Theme Cards, What’s the Matter? Word Cards, and What’s the Matter? Mix ’n’ Match Cards, supporting a clear progression from visual reference to active language practice.

Language included (target language)

I need to go to the sickroom, I don't feel very well, I've had an x-ray, I've had a needle, I've cut my finger, I've broken my leg, I'm going to be sick!, I've got a temperature, I've got a cold, my arm is broken, I've got a headache, my nose is bleeding, I've bruised my knee, I've got a toothache, I've got an earache, Can I have a band aid?, I've got something in my eye, I need my medicine, I need my tablets, I've got a stomach ache, I feel better.