What is this?
This is an online quizz website from BBC learning English. It contains a lot of interesting quizzes on various hot topics.
Why is the content good for language learning?
- Some questions in quizzes cover a lot of language points and daily use language that are easily confusable. For example: The word pairs below
- Learners can distinguish them through exercising and will be able to use it into real communication.
- Every question is followed by a relevant picture which can indicate the context of the question or give some clues. It is easy to understand and enables learners to make quick decision.
- Learners can take self-test and self-correction, in order to increase their autonomy and achieve self-improvement in language learning. After finishing the quizzes, just 'check the answer', you will get the feedback.
- Every feedback, both correct and wrong, will give learners an explanation or Synonyms of the answer, which motivates learners to learn more.
- The topics are various and almost cover a lot of subjects in the world. Topic-based quizzes will give learners more choice to do the quizzes according to their interests.
- There are several types of quizzes, learners may never feel boring.
- The quizzes are short (six questions per quizz) and it takes learners only few minutes to do it.
- The cloze test pattern is expecially good for those test-centered learners to do self-test.
- All the quizzes can be downloaded as PDF file.
- The resources will be updated weekly. Learners can do the latest quizzes and know the hottest topics as they want.
How might you use it in a language teaching context?
- Teacher pre-select a topic-based quizz which is relevant to today's lesson and hand it out as a warm-up activity before the class.
- Or after the class, the quizz can be used as a review material.
- For oral English class,
- The quizz can be used as an oral material. Because some of the quizzes have a strong association with daily life communication.
- For example:
- Teacher can ask students to do a role play or make up a story or practice a dialogue according to the quizzes.
- 'Beat the keeper' is a flash game combined with language practice. Teacher can apply it into class and encourages students to work in pair or group to play it.
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