Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

October 27, 2019

Interactive Multiple Alternative Activities

This is the 3rd business office inwards a serial that I’m writing on how to operate give-and-take processors to do computer-based materials. This i looks at how nosotros tin do interactive multiple choice activities using 'dropdown' menus.

Multiple choice must live on i of the most mutual inquiry types inwards the history of education. I’m certain nosotros all answered them when nosotros were at schoolhouse in addition to nosotros bring all given these inquiry types to our students.

When I was at school, nosotros used to telephone telephone them ‘multiple guess’ questions, because nosotros knew that fifty-fifty if nosotros didn’t bring whatsoever persuasion what the right respond was, it had to live on i of the choices, thence nosotros had a 1 inwards iv or 1 inwards five guide chances of guessing the respond correctly.

In the pic tutorial y'all volition come across how to insert the dropdown menu, add together your choices in addition to besides add together a ‘help text’ which tin live on used to hand clues or the right answer.
Students access the ‘help text’ yesteryear clicking on the dropdown champaign in addition to pressing F1 on the reckoner keyboard.

Here’s document alongside but about interactive fields in. Click on them in addition to and then force F1 on your keyboard to come across how they work.
There are a hit of ways y'all tin hand clues
  • Direct students to a business office of the text
  • Remind them virtually fourth dimension relationships (for verb tense exercises)
  • Remind them of context
  • Remind them virtually business office of speech communication or give-and-take morphology
  • Give them pronunciation clues (it sounds like)
  • Give a translation
  • Remind them of the unit of measurement of the coursebook / lesson when y'all covered the topic
Adding clues, rather than right answers, volition assistance to brand the exercises developmental rather than a assay of cognition / memory.

You besides bespeak to live on careful inwards your choice of words both when y'all pick out the give-and-take that y'all desire to operate from the dropdown activeness in addition to when y'all add together your choices.

If y'all are selecting words from a text, in addition to then hold off for clues inside the context which volition assistance the students to deduce which give-and-take is correct.

When y'all add together the ‘distractor’ words, elbow grease to brand them reasonable alternatives. You could operate this practice to focus students on mutual problems, yesteryear using errors from their ain written texts in addition to the right version equally alternatives. If y'all do this, don’t focus alone on their negative aspects, but besides elbow grease to include but about of their positive aspects of their work, similar adept operate of vocabulary.

Anyway, promise y'all uncovering this useful in addition to yesteryear all agency larn out a comment if y'all bring used this characteristic inwards other ways.

Best

Nik

May 30, 2006

Interactive Multiple Alternative Activities

This is the 3rd business office inwards a serial that I’m writing on how to operate give-and-take processors to do computer-based materials. This i looks at how nosotros tin do interactive multiple choice activities using 'dropdown' menus.

Multiple choice must live on i of the most mutual inquiry types inwards the history of education. I’m certain nosotros all answered them when nosotros were at schoolhouse in addition to nosotros bring all given these inquiry types to our students.

When I was at school, nosotros used to telephone telephone them ‘multiple guess’ questions, because nosotros knew that fifty-fifty if nosotros didn’t bring whatsoever persuasion what the right respond was, it had to live on i of the choices, thence nosotros had a 1 inwards iv or 1 inwards five guide chances of guessing the respond correctly.

In the pic tutorial y'all volition come across how to insert the dropdown menu, add together your choices in addition to besides add together a ‘help text’ which tin live on used to hand clues or the right answer.
Students access the ‘help text’ yesteryear clicking on the dropdown champaign in addition to pressing F1 on the reckoner keyboard.

Here’s document alongside but about interactive fields in. Click on them in addition to and then force F1 on your keyboard to come across how they work.
There are a hit of ways y'all tin hand clues
  • Direct students to a business office of the text
  • Remind them virtually fourth dimension relationships (for verb tense exercises)
  • Remind them of context
  • Remind them virtually business office of speech communication or give-and-take morphology
  • Give them pronunciation clues (it sounds like)
  • Give a translation
  • Remind them of the unit of measurement of the coursebook / lesson when y'all covered the topic
Adding clues, rather than right answers, volition assistance to brand the exercises developmental rather than a assay of cognition / memory.

You besides bespeak to live on careful inwards your choice of words both when y'all pick out the give-and-take that y'all desire to operate from the dropdown activeness in addition to when y'all add together your choices.

If y'all are selecting words from a text, in addition to then hold off for clues inside the context which volition assistance the students to deduce which give-and-take is correct.

When y'all add together the ‘distractor’ words, elbow grease to brand them reasonable alternatives. You could operate this practice to focus students on mutual problems, yesteryear using errors from their ain written texts in addition to the right version equally alternatives. If y'all do this, don’t focus alone on their negative aspects, but besides elbow grease to include but about of their positive aspects of their work, similar adept operate of vocabulary.

Anyway, promise y'all uncovering this useful in addition to yesteryear all agency larn out a comment if y'all bring used this characteristic inwards other ways.

Best

Nik

May 20, 2006

Multimedia Wordsearch

This is a genuinely prissy tool that I convey precisely discovered. It's called PhotoSoup together with it generates wordsearch activities based on whatever theme inwards precisely seconds.

This is a genuinely prissy tool that I convey precisely discovered Multimedia wordsearchIt's real unproblematic together with plant on images from flickr. You merely type inwards your theme together with the site automatically generates a give-and-take grid together with icon clues. You hence convey ninety seconds to detect all the words. You tin laissez passer on notice acquire hints together with fifty-fifty acquire it to exhibit y'all the answers.

Watch a brusk video to run into how it's done. (499k swf)

How to run it amongst students
  • This is corking for vocabulary revision, peculiarly amongst higher levels. Students could fifty-fifty larn some novel vocabulary from it.
  • It would await corking on an interactive whiteboard (IWB) or y'all could laissez passer on students a collection of vocabulary themes together with acquire them to piece of occupation on their own.
  • Good to run every bit a filler for students who complete early

What I similar nigh it
  • It's free
  • Each wordsearch it generates is pretty much unique
  • The timing adds an chemical component of motivation together with contest to it
  • It's precisely hence simple
  • I tried a random alternative of real unsuitable words that students powerfulness seat inwards together with it seems that those words are censored, hence y'all don't convey to worry hence much nigh badly behaved students looking at unsuitable images
  • It's genuinely quite tricky

What I'm non hence certain about
  • Because it's based on the tags that images are given the words tin laissez passer on notice sometimes seem a flake tangential
  • It's genuinely quite tricky
  • You can't relieve your wordsearches (Actually I've precisely discovered that y'all can. If y'all await at the peak of the page y'all tin laissez passer on notice click 'embed puzzle' together with this volition generate a code that volition enable y'all to embed the wordsearch into a webpage or blog)
This is the sort of site that powerfulness convey been custom made for linguistic communication teaching.
Hope y'all detect it useful together with your students savor it.

Best

Nik

April 1, 2006

A Tool For Comparison Words

I've exactly establish this really useful tool that allows you lot to compare words as well as phrases as well as how they are used online. It industrial plant really exactly past times taking the ii words or phrases that you lot type inwards as well as searching through Google to laissez passer you lot the results for each word. It tells you lot which is the well-nigh pop as well as how many pages each ane appears in.
Creating Word Lists
  • List Your Favourite Words
  • Learn Some Cliches
  • Interactive multiple selection activities
  • Video Dictionary 2.0
  • Using Word Clouds inwards EFL ESL
  • Picture phrases
  • Best

    Nik Peachey

    March 29, 2006

    A River Of Images

    I honey the might of images in addition to their adaptability for teaching, in addition to thence I can't enjoin that I'm upset to endure most overwhelmed amongst actually nifty tools for exploiting Flickr at the moment. The latest of these is Create Image Books
  • Create a Flickr Montage
  • Great Time Line Tool
  • Create a YouTube Carousel
  • Interactive presentations
  • A Picture's worth
  • Picture phrases
  • Make Your EFL ESL Yearbook
  • Personalised flashcards
  • Animating vocabulary
  • Exploiting Image Sequences
  • Best

    Nik Peachey