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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770</id><updated>2024-05-30T08:18:25.821+01:00</updated><category term="Activities"/><category term="Collocations"/><category term="Lexis"/><category term="Chunks"/><category term="Vocabulary"/><category term="Grammar"/><category term="News"/><category term="Quiz"/><category term="Ideas"/><category term="Lexical Approach"/><category term="Recycling"/><category term="Conference"/><category term="Research"/><category term="Video"/><category term="Listening"/><category term="Collocation forks"/><category term="Lesson plan"/><category term="Songs"/><category term="Summaries"/><category term="Clips"/><category term="Spoken Language"/><category term="Web tools"/><category term="Writing"/><category term="Corpus"/><category term="IATEFL"/><category term="Colligation"/><category term="Lexical priming"/><category term="Spoken Grammar"/><category term="Synonyms"/><category term="blogging"/><category term="Context"/><category term="Innovations"/><category term="Elementary"/><category term="Error correction"/><category term="L1"/><category term="Multi-part verbs"/><category term="Remote teaching"/><category term="Task-based learning"/><category term="Vision Off"/><category term="Alliteration"/><category term="Dictionaries"/><category term="IWB"/><category term="Online Games"/><category term="Proficiency"/><category term="SLA"/><category term="Background knowledge"/><category term="Binomials"/><category term="Conceptual metaphors"/><category term="Conditionals"/><category term="Corpora"/><category term="Dictogloss"/><category term="Eclecticism"/><category term="Functional language"/><category term="Honesty"/><category term="Money"/><category term="Quizlet"/><category term="Semiotics"/><category term="Special Ed"/><category term="Translation"/><title type='text'>Leoxicon</title><subtitle type='html'>Leo Selivan&#39;s blog for EFL/ESL teachers. Activities, ideas and useful tips with a lexical touch</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>117</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-9080343382327896248</id><published>2024-05-26T21:49:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2024-05-27T00:37:55.816+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lesson plan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Listening"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spoken Language"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Video"/><title type='text'>Revisiting Super Size Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwksb_VT7srY0hKjRZWkxwqmcFp8HdaUUU6TjFoqCYMMkHKKEfofJL6NlD_DYPlHUKDymlrmj_QJsDGAjGb2o8vvK5cjiIp098IKa-TOkuUw-cbq506_4KnNS52f7VIftuOSQzfas5jPSjOWCr423C4xfd6UEMmnuXH-K8xpxa5izc5bsZGiOIJoTjuH5/s350/Super_Size_Me_Poster.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;350&quot; data-original-width=&quot;245&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwksb_VT7srY0hKjRZWkxwqmcFp8HdaUUU6TjFoqCYMMkHKKEfofJL6NlD_DYPlHUKDymlrmj_QJsDGAjGb2o8vvK5cjiIp098IKa-TOkuUw-cbq506_4KnNS52f7VIftuOSQzfas5jPSjOWCr423C4xfd6UEMmnuXH-K8xpxa5izc5bsZGiOIJoTjuH5/s320/Super_Size_Me_Poster.jpg&quot; width=&quot;224&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Super Size Me&lt;/i&gt; movie poster [Fair use]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Freshly updated video-activity based on a classic fast food expos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;é&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;The news of Morgan Spurlock&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnz3ze3l7o&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;death at the age of 53&lt;/a&gt; prompted me to revisit this video activity we created some 15 years ago with a former British Council colleague, Charlotte Brander. I thought it was also appropriate to update the activity for the 20th anniversary of one of the most successful documentaries of all time. Additionally, the film has finally been uploaded to YouTube - legally - by the production company.&amp;nbsp;Now, 20 years since its release, has it held up well?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The activity is suitable for both teen and adult learners at B1-B2 level and up. Scroll down for the worksheet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;About the film&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you haven&#39;t seen the film, &lt;i&gt;Super Size Me &lt;/i&gt;follows filmmaker Morgan Spurlock as he embarks on a McDonald&#39;s-only diet for a month. Through his journey, Spurlock explores the effects of fast food on his physical and mental health as well as its broader implications for society.&amp;nbsp;You can watch the whole documentary here&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/mlWzDV_0hnU&quot;&gt;youtu.be/mlWzDV_0hnU&lt;/a&gt;; you only need to show the first 5 minutes in class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Note for teacher trainers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lesson procedure described below can also be used with teacher trainees as an example of a classic PWP (Pre-While-Post) lesson framework: with a Pre- activity aimed at arousing interest (and introducing new language), two While-watching activities - first for gist and then for specific information - and a Post-watching discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allow=&quot;autoplay&quot; height=&quot;780&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/17kC2sz88cpCoG4coCBdLMOp5VuHaeh9y/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.canva.com/design/DAGGVsJwyQM/PqaP6Xoy4rfXQwn6xZhCnw/view?utm_content=DAGGVsJwyQM&amp;amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;amp;utm_medium=link&amp;amp;utm_source=publishsharelink&amp;amp;mode=preview&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;if you would like to access an editable version of the worksheet on Canva (sign-in required)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Procedure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Pre-watching&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put students in pairs or groups to discuss the questions and then the quotes. Some language you may have to clarify includes:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;basically&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;junk food&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;get a craving for&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;(be) out with friends&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;balance it with&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(this is later recycled in the Post-watching activity)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main focus of the activity, however, is on discourse markers (in &lt;b&gt;bold)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;commonly used in spoken language: &lt;i&gt;that said &lt;/i&gt;(or &lt;i&gt;having said that&lt;/i&gt;),&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;though&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;mind you&lt;/i&gt;. What they all have in common is that they are used to qualify or soften the previous statement, adding a new fact or opinion that changes what you have just said. In this way, they are similar to &lt;i&gt;however&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;nevertheless &lt;/i&gt;in written language. Point out that &lt;i&gt;though&lt;/i&gt; is used at the end of a sentence/clause.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask students to make their own similar comments about fast food using these three spoken discourse markers. If they are struggling to come up with ideas, first elicit a list of positive and negative aspects of fast food, for example:&lt;/p&gt;
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  14.          &lt;li&gt;Unhealthy&lt;/li&gt;
  15.          &lt;li&gt;Full of calories&lt;/li&gt;
  16.          &lt;li&gt;Full of trans fat&lt;/li&gt;
  17.          &lt;li&gt;Greasy&lt;/li&gt;
  18.          &lt;li&gt;Lack of fresh ingredients&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can&#39;t compare to good restaurants&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can&#39;t compare to home-made / traditional food&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
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  23.          &lt;li&gt;Tasty&lt;/li&gt;
  24.          &lt;li&gt;A quick option&lt;/li&gt;
  25.          &lt;li&gt;Convenient&lt;/li&gt;
  26.          &lt;li&gt;Fast and affordable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You wouldn&#39;t eat it all the time&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There are healthy fast food options these days&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then have students make statements by first mentioning one of the negative aspects, followed by a positive comment with a discourse marker (or vice versa: first positive, then negative), for example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Burgers and fries contain lots of trans fat, which is not good for your health. &lt;b&gt;Mind you&lt;/b&gt;, you wouldn&#39;t eat them all the time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;While you watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tell students that they&#39;re going to watch the opening of a documentary that came out in 2004. The year is important to mention, but you don&#39;t have to tell them (yet) that the filmmaker is dead. This &#39;big reveal&#39; can be saved for later - see &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Follow Up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. You may also have to clarify the meaning of the title. Play the first 5 minutes of the film (until the opening credits) twice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;The answers to the 2nd watching/listening (for specific info):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mississippi &lt;/b&gt;is a state with the highest obesity rate in the US (&quot;the fattest state in America [...] where one in four people are obese&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The number of people that eat McDonald&#39;s every day is more than the population of &lt;b&gt;Spain&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;(McDonalds &quot;feeds more than 46 million people worldwide every day. That&#39;s more than the entire population of Spain&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;His &lt;b&gt;mother &lt;/b&gt;always cooked at home (&quot;my mother cooked dinner every single day. Almost all my memories of her are in the kitchen. And we never ate out, only on those few, rare special occasions.&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Two teenagers&lt;/b&gt;, who are extremely obese, took McDonald&#39;s to court (&quot;did what we do best: they sued the bastards. Taking aim at the fast-food companies and blaming them for their obesity and illnesses, a lawsuit was filed in New York on behalf of two teenage girls...&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;More than &lt;b&gt;60%&lt;/b&gt; of Americans are overweight (&quot;Nearly 100 million Americans are today, either overweight or obese. That&#39;s more than 60% of all U.S. adults.&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;43% &lt;/b&gt;is McDonald&#39;s share of the fast food market (&quot;McDonald&#39;s accounts for 43 percent of the total fast-food market. They&#39;re everywhere.&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;300,000 &lt;/b&gt;Americans die each year as a result of being obese (&quot;Obesity is now second only to smoking as a major cause of preventable death in America, with over 300,000 deaths per year associated with related illnesses&quot;). Students might confuse it with &lt;b&gt;30,000&lt;/b&gt; - another figure mentioned by Spurlock - which is the number of McDonald&#39;s restaurants worldwide (&quot;McDonald&#39;s alone operates more than 30,000 joints in over 100 countries&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;After you watch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Put students in groups to discuss the questions. Draw their attention to the use of &quot;&lt;i&gt;has changed ... since 2004 / over the years&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&amp;nbsp;in questions 1,2 and 4 and encourage correct use of the pattern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Follow up activities (not in the worksheet)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Home viewing:&lt;/b&gt; Students can watch the documentary in full at home. You can then revisit the last question in the &lt;i&gt;While you watch&lt;/i&gt; section: What do you think is going to happen to him?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Research:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Students can also investigate how the McDonald&#39;s menu &lt;u&gt;has changed over the past 20 years&lt;/u&gt; and present their findings in class.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Debate: &lt;/b&gt;Split the class into two groups. One group argues that fast food companies are responsible for the obesity epidemic. The other group argues that personal responsibility is the main factor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Deeper dive&lt;/b&gt;: Watch &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXtJ12EeaOs&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;THIS VIDEO&lt;/a&gt; for a critical analysis of&lt;i&gt; Super Size Me&lt;/i&gt;&#39;s claims. It exposes the controversies surrounding the film and encourages critical thinking. Suitable for higher levels (B2+/C1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phew! I could murder a burger now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/9080343382327896248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2024/05/revisiting-super-size-me.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/9080343382327896248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/9080343382327896248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2024/05/revisiting-super-size-me.html' title='Revisiting Super Size Me'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNwksb_VT7srY0hKjRZWkxwqmcFp8HdaUUU6TjFoqCYMMkHKKEfofJL6NlD_DYPlHUKDymlrmj_QJsDGAjGb2o8vvK5cjiIp098IKa-TOkuUw-cbq506_4KnNS52f7VIftuOSQzfas5jPSjOWCr423C4xfd6UEMmnuXH-K8xpxa5izc5bsZGiOIJoTjuH5/s72-c/Super_Size_Me_Poster.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-8608819450173791645</id><published>2024-01-07T19:38:00.005+00:00</published><updated>2024-01-07T19:45:45.532+00:00</updated><title type='text'>News Quiz 2023: follow up</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Activities for reviewing and recycling the language&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;from News Quiz 2023&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwqN853ERdOFKJyDjuf6Y-ZEdn1lDq_ulm_i7MC3w_DlytalwErq08MOkhruT4aYP8E6NFTwZws0Y7VHK0BJmhtwMnyw_jTb60IAs9J20s7k8mU3DFKT4vi7YuMCippDC2C0K68i67PYeBrIaFzSJlDpmqs72Yeu9U6BHdDv3DkolUiQHDfK69TrHby_UA/s1000/Collage%20News%20Quiz%202023%20follow%20up.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;643&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1000&quot; height=&quot;206&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwqN853ERdOFKJyDjuf6Y-ZEdn1lDq_ulm_i7MC3w_DlytalwErq08MOkhruT4aYP8E6NFTwZws0Y7VHK0BJmhtwMnyw_jTb60IAs9J20s7k8mU3DFKT4vi7YuMCippDC2C0K68i67PYeBrIaFzSJlDpmqs72Yeu9U6BHdDv3DkolUiQHDfK69TrHby_UA/s320/Collage%20News%20Quiz%202023%20follow%20up.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Image credits: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Charles_III_and_Camilla#/media/File:2023_Coronation_Balcony.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Isaac Mayne/DCMS&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/68686051@N00/2416778389&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Steve Swayne&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[Public Domain];&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tina_Turner.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Les Zg&lt;/a&gt; [CC BY-SA 4.0],&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/hotrodhomepage/11103892&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Geoffrey Chandler&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[CC BY 2.0]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Welcome back, fellow EFL/ESL educators! I hope that the recent installment of the News Quiz did not only engage your students but also offered some valuable learning opportunities. Now, let&#39;s delve into a variety of language-focused follow-up activities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As in the past few years, these activities come in various formats. You&#39;ll find interactive drag&#39;n&#39;drop exercises on LearningApps, a matching activity on WordWall (Advanced level), interactive quiz on Quizizz (Intermediate level) and good old fashioned worksheets in editable Google Docs.
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  28.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you haven&#39;t seen News Quiz 2023 - click &lt;a href=&quot;https://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/12/news-quiz-2023.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Accompanying Quizlet sets : &lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ee;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2023&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;(work in progress)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The activities are grouped by level according to the two versions of the news quiz.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Online activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1a&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pcqqzxx2v24&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pcqqzxx2v24&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1b&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=piroxkdi324&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=piroxkdi324&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pm4e4rzqt24&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pm4e4rzqt24&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  29. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pcqqzxx2v24&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 300px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Collocation match: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wordwall.net/resource/919323&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://wordwall.net/resource/27077155&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  30. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;380&quot; src=&quot;https://wordwall.net/embed/9dbdcdad71794aac92fab72ac2e4df34?themeId=1&amp;amp;templateId=3&amp;amp;fontStackId=0&quot; style=&quot;max-width: 100%;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p97hb3p3n24&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p97hb3p3n24&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pjk0uoxf324&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pjk0uoxf324&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p97hb3p3n24&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 300px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Multiple choice quiz on Quizizz:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/659959e368489402481d8819&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/659959e368489402481d8819&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  31. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Worksheets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Paper-based&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;worksheets, which can be adapted for online teaching. The answer keys can be found in the second parts of the documents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;(B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRCah5rXL0J3Hrynvy03Fd2CdchPMiIF0y1Lo1f8ASI/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Google doc or preview below.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  32. &lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/16fJI0Dd0j8YpXUlQ3qk3orf1-X3PKeWN/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;(B1/B2-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Begnpq8GJhO4koZqnlUHCyNkt0DRGMXZZRmNgHRHpg8/edit?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download the Google doc or preview below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  33. &lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/16eBrMCy4lxbsBFP0yLsnTpnvmjSmYujH/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Should you find any mistakes - happens sometimes! - or have difficulty accessing any of the above, do let me know in the comments below.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/8608819450173791645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2024/01/news-quiz-2023-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/8608819450173791645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/8608819450173791645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2024/01/news-quiz-2023-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2023: follow up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwqN853ERdOFKJyDjuf6Y-ZEdn1lDq_ulm_i7MC3w_DlytalwErq08MOkhruT4aYP8E6NFTwZws0Y7VHK0BJmhtwMnyw_jTb60IAs9J20s7k8mU3DFKT4vi7YuMCippDC2C0K68i67PYeBrIaFzSJlDpmqs72Yeu9U6BHdDv3DkolUiQHDfK69TrHby_UA/s72-c/Collage%20News%20Quiz%202023%20follow%20up.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-5775294497913861638</id><published>2023-12-30T14:17:00.012+00:00</published><updated>2024-01-08T15:03:39.905+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lesson plan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vocabulary"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2023</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  34. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dO8-nj9TYl5VhMbl-SrU6FTmyx7p6_tiu19Aa0gdBAFGnos-zRrCU6AxarlrBLAsNygWXLvSGY05OFhSswFzIJ_ms_ygf_C1Dt5mHI3Gv1SA9TO-VflkLsROCJI8W9fte02DPd4RqRoeMml7R6ETX_LecMG4hVU6IQUr1O0U2qTIobfRs2RUtAVfNM_H/s316/Donald_Trump_mug_shot.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;316&quot; data-original-width=&quot;316&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dO8-nj9TYl5VhMbl-SrU6FTmyx7p6_tiu19Aa0gdBAFGnos-zRrCU6AxarlrBLAsNygWXLvSGY05OFhSswFzIJ_ms_ygf_C1Dt5mHI3Gv1SA9TO-VflkLsROCJI8W9fte02DPd4RqRoeMml7R6ETX_LecMG4hVU6IQUr1O0U2qTIobfRs2RUtAVfNM_H/w320-h320/Donald_Trump_mug_shot.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image by Fulton County Sheriff&#39;s Office,&lt;br /&gt;State of Georgia via Wikipedia [Fair Use]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s time for... News Quiz 2023! Following the annual tradition since the start of this blog, here comes the news quiz some of you have been waiting for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;As in the past three editions, the quiz uses a multiple choice format. This way you can get through the questions quickly and devote more time to discussing the stories and learning some language.&amp;nbsp;As usual, the text is packed with very common lexical chunks (verified with the help of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;COCA&lt;/a&gt;) and other vocabulary items for your students to learn, practise and use. Some of these, such as &lt;i&gt;made headlines&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;cause controversy &lt;/i&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;went viral &lt;/i&gt;(all from the Intermediate version), make recurring appearances in my news quizzes.&lt;br /&gt;
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  36. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;The quiz is available in three formats, all of which can be edited if you wish to adapt them:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Google Slides presentation. To edit, click on&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;File -&amp;gt; Download&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Google Doc. To edit, click on&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;File -&amp;gt; Download -&amp;gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;select the desired format&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;interactive quiz on Quizizz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and in two levels:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1 or higher)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Language note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Intermediate level quiz has been checked using&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lextutor.ca/vp/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VocabProfiler&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on LexTutor (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.englishprofile.org/the-cefr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;English Vocabulary Profile&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is no longer free). The majority of the words (94%) in the quiz are K1 and K2 words, i.e. in the top 2000 most frequent words in English. There are only around 30 words (tokens) that fall outside the K1-K2 frequency bands. Many of these, for example &lt;i&gt;media (social media), network, tournament, ceremony, former (president), alien, goods &lt;/i&gt;(all K3 according to VocabProfiler),&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;should be familiar to learners at that level. Other &#39;difficult&#39; words are: &lt;i&gt;cave, jungle, medal, statues, shipwreck &lt;/i&gt;(K4); &lt;i&gt;logo, submarine &lt;/i&gt;(K5);&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;eldest,&amp;nbsp;overtake &lt;/i&gt;(K6) – some of these are pre-taught (see p. 4 of the Teacher&#39;s Guide). &lt;i&gt;Mummies &lt;/i&gt;is K10 but is a cognate in many languages. The usual disclaimer applies: LexTutors doesn&#39;t take into account lexical chunks, such as &lt;i&gt;take place, went missing &lt;/i&gt;or the&amp;nbsp;phrasal verbs &lt;i&gt;carry out&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Scroll down to see the accompanying &lt;b&gt;Teachers&#39; guide&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;with 8 pages of ideas on how to use the quiz in class and work with the language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual, some time next week I will be posting follow-up activities for language review and consolidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  37.  &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE (7 Jan. 2024) click &lt;a href=&quot;https://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2024/01/news-quiz-2023-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for follow up language-focused activities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wishing you a happier year ahead!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Slides&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-z2J62Aq2Rdw-AJPNIbrD5YVA23gVp-PSnjeYmJnBtk/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-z2J62Aq2Rdw-AJPNIbrD5YVA23gVp-PSnjeYmJnBtk/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10Sq2IxO_zwoFRBwzqyL6tuuqMFkMGE5ZY3BziWo6YRs/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10Sq2IxO_zwoFRBwzqyL6tuuqMFkMGE5ZY3BziWo6YRs/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Docs / PDF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is the &#39;old&#39; format suitable for a face-to-face classroom. This can also be sent to students by email for review after the lesson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCbu6qT5ORBA1f-qQ8tdJDGjR_fR2YgdzocNAaYwLu0/edit?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/16TxgfbBVNYRBewV-nW2DEwklOnMfX_zF/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;Preview below or click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xKW3Xu56MW591mBdFTSSMBeiaZTvNoxWAzI1-yTAE-I/edit?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/16_uB-ntfWGTogXbRUwoLmJtAcCuABgPE/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Quizizz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advanced:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/6589f5299fe376fee6528551&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/6589f5299fe376fee6528551&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Intermediate:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/6589ec79e009d82f22884d05&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/6589ec79e009d82f22884d05&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;[LINK HAS BEEN FIXED]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Teacher&#39;s Guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Preview below or click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSuimhdHOhUYs3Kz3RzkrDCArFkoOO8D99sAmfaoXIM/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;to download (note I&#39;ve been adding links)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSuimhdHOhUYs3Kz3RzkrDCArFkoOO8D99sAmfaoXIM/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;The last question (17) is concerned with the same topic but formulated differently in the two versions. The multiple-choice options and the answers are therefore &lt;u&gt;different&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Credits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Some questions have been adapted from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/briefing/year-in-review-news-quiz.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Special End-of-Year 2023 News Quiz for Students&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in The New York Times, four-part&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67729849&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BBC News Quiz of the Year&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-year-in-review-2023-sec/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Year in Review News Quiz 2023&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the CNN website.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Upon my return I did some digging into the sources Penny Ur cited; the result is a summary combined with some personal reflections. By her own admission, she whizzed through so many studies in the talk that I only focus on those that are interesting &lt;u&gt;to me&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;The previous part covered the age factor, the use of L1 and error correction; in this one we turn to the following three strands of research: inferencing meaning from context, the flipped classroom and the use of pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;Inferencing meaning from context&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another Penny Ur’s hobbyhorse. She laid the groundwork by referencing some early studies, such as Laufer &amp;amp; Bensoussan (1984), in which students guessed correctly less than a quarter of target items in a text. Making a case for explicit vocabulary teaching, Laufer and Bensoussan argued that mere exposure to new vocabulary would not lead to vocabulary learning.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, in Nassaji&#39;s (2003) study, learners could accurately guess less than 50% of the target words, according to Ur (in fact, the number of correct guesses was very similar to that in Laufer &amp;amp; Bensoussan, at 25%). “And he was playing fair with them”, she remarked – 95% of words in the text were familiar to learners (knowing at least 95% of words in a text, or 95%&lt;i&gt; lexical coverage&lt;/i&gt;, is commonly considered the threshold for adequate reading comprehension – see, for example, Laufer &amp;amp; Ravenhorst-Kalovski 2010). Nassaji concurs that guessing is not an effective way of enriching vocabulary because of limitations inherent in inferring meaning from contextual clues. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More recent experimental studies compared guessing from context with other vocabulary learning strategies showing that the latter are more effective. In Zou’s experiment (2018), dictionary consultation led to better learning of word meanings while in Ko’s (2012) study providing glosses for unknown words either in L1 (Korean) or L2 (English) resulted in significantly better learning than guessing from context, which the author refers to as “risky and misleading”. Interestingly, the participants expressed a preference for L2 glosses, especially if they are concise and clear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recent review (Xiali &amp;amp; Altunel 2018) of empirical research on lexical inferencing concludes that depending solely on contextual clues is not an effective vocabulary learning strategy, particularly for lower L2 proficiency levels. The paper ends, however, with a recommendation to use concordance lines for vocabulary learning. The strategy does rely on contextual clues, but since learners are presented with several examples of the target word in context, they have a greater opportunity to figure out its meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Further thoughts and practical implications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;Studying concordance lines not only helps learners with the meaning of the target word, but also, perhaps more importantly, with how the word is used. It provides so called ‘condensed exposure’ or ‘condensed reading’ (Gabrielatos 2005) and is one application of Data-Driven Learning (DDL), which I delve into in my recent chapter in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-11220-1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teachers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;(Harrington &amp;amp; Ronan 2023). When it comes to resources available online, Nik Peachey has some good ideas &lt;a href=&quot; https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/knowing-subject/articles/concordancers-elt&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In general, it is important to distinguish between guessing from context as a vocabulary learning strategy and an exam strategy. Yes, it may not be effective for the former – and personally I have never relied on it as a source of vocabulary development – but it may come in handy when learners grapple with unknown words in a reading passage on an exam. See some useful suggestions on the EAP Foundation website: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eapfoundation.com/reading/skills/guess/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.eapfoundation.com/reading/skills/guess/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;The flipped classroom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Another &#39;trendy&#39; topic, which, incidentally, I was discussing with colleagues (other IATEFL attendees) over dinner the night before Penny Ur’s presentation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to remind you, in the flipped classroom model students engage with instructional materials before class (e.g. a recorded lecture), thereby freeing up class time for discussions, pairwork and other interactive activities as well as practice activities which traditionally might be given for homework.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Although the concept has been around for some time,
  39. the trend for flipping was plausibly accelerated by the recent pandemic. According
  40. to Ur, good results have been particularly evident at university level, although
  41. very often students don’t do the preliminary viewing, which defeats the purpose
  42. of flipping. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;But what about the L2 classroom? There is some encouraging news too. A new study by Chang (2023) shows the benefits of flipped instruction for language learners at A2 level.&amp;nbsp;The findings indicate a significant improvement in writing and grammar among the group taught using a flipped approach. Flipped instruction also had a positive
  43. impact on the learners’ motivation and self-efficacy compared to the group that
  44. received traditional instruction.&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;However, a recent article by Kapur et al (2022) entitled &quot;Fail flip fix and feed&quot; urges practitioners to curb their enthusiasm. The authors, one of whom is the king of meta-analyses John Hattie (famous for his book &lt;i&gt;Visible Learning&lt;/i&gt;) do not outright dismiss the value of flipping; quite on the contrary, they propose a new, modified model in which learners engage in problem-solving prior to instruction resulting in “productive failure”, which is then &lt;b&gt;fixed &lt;/b&gt;in the instruction stage. Their main criticism is that the perceived success of the flipped model as reported by numerous studies they have analysed can largely be attributed to the additional time on task and additional exposure to the material rather than than the effect of flipping. In other words, students do better in a flipped model not because it’s flipped but because they’ve engaged with the material more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Further thoughts and practical implications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;I find the term “flipped classroom” overused or, rather, misused. Just the other day I had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/leoselivan/status/1643266560755204097&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;discussion on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;about whether giving students some kind of pre-task, specifically asking them to watch a portion of a film or an episode of a TV series ahead of the lesson –&amp;nbsp;with the aim of later discussing it in class –&amp;nbsp; constitutes a flipped classroom. As someone who has used a lot of films and TV series with my students (see some of my resources &lt;a href=&quot;https://payhip.com/leosel&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;), I fail to see how this is flipped in the sense that how it could possibly work otherwise (i.e. what the unflipped/traditional version would be): watching a whole episode in class and discussing it… at home? For me a flipped lesson implies doing what would normally be assigned as homework (e.g. exercises) in class and vice versa. Perhaps it’s not a relevant concept for language learning in the first place?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;Pictures&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Finally, and very briefly, on to the last strand of research chosen by Penny Ur: using images to support vocabulary learning. Here only one study was mentioned – Farley et al (2012), which investigated the effect of visual imagery on the learning of abstract words. Participants –&amp;nbsp;first-year learners of Spanish –&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;were divided into two groups and taught 12 abstract and 12 concrete words. The group that was shown pictures alongside new words recalled new items better than the no-picture group, suggesting that metaphorical or symbolic images can aid the learning of abstract words. Interestingly,&amp;nbsp; the same effect wasn’t found for concrete items. The authors attribute this surprising finding to the already existing connections between concrete words and images in our mental lexicons. Consequently, the addition of visual images is of less benefit compared to abstract words, where the association with images is not as readily available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Further thoughts and practical implications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQzdZWVkQZzYJFXheK3RrspLpeSxlJACNQUjW3OmoREf5r3NGoOYtHWYSB2tSO7C3Jvg1Y1SdMswUbGkWnFm8cziFNC81fS5VrYHscufbTKxQfjv40_wFTtg-opzNk17TF0zIs6zPT4QypjlOBokBy1BH3BHTS-h9XCHPRE-MslhitY2J8V0ks9vC3w/s737/refuse%20flashcard%20on%20Quizlet.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;2&quot; data-original-height=&quot;387&quot; data-original-width=&quot;737&quot; height=&quot;168&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQzdZWVkQZzYJFXheK3RrspLpeSxlJACNQUjW3OmoREf5r3NGoOYtHWYSB2tSO7C3Jvg1Y1SdMswUbGkWnFm8cziFNC81fS5VrYHscufbTKxQfjv40_wFTtg-opzNk17TF0zIs6zPT4QypjlOBokBy1BH3BHTS-h9XCHPRE-MslhitY2J8V0ks9vC3w/s320/refuse%20flashcard%20on%20Quizlet.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;My attempt at supporting the learning of &lt;br /&gt;the verb&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;refuse&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;with an image&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;I have occasionally included pictures in my Quizlet sets for concrete nouns (as you may know, I’m an avid user of Quizlet). But it hasn’t occurred to me till now that adding pictures for abstract items could support learning.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In this set designed for B1/B2 level Business English students&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/284027830&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;quizlet.com/284027830&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;I have tried adding images in almost every flashcard, including for abstract words such as &lt;i&gt;willing &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;entitled.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Thank you, Penny, for making me dig into all these research studies and inspiring me to write not one, but two blog posts!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;You can see Penny Ur&#39;s Padlet with slides and references &lt;a href=&quot;https://padlet.com/pennyur/pennyur2023-7eajqm5nig7rlbft/wish/2559755290&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;References&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Only additional references not mentioned in the talk are listed here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Laufer, B., &amp;amp; Ravenhorst-Kalovski, G. C. (2010). Lexical threshold revisited: Lexical text coverage, learners’ vocabulary size and reading comprehension. &lt;i&gt;Reading in a Foreign Language, 22&lt;/i&gt;(1), 15–30. Available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/&quot;&gt;http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabrielatos, C. (2005). Corpora and language teaching: Just a fling or wedding bells? &lt;i&gt;TESL-EJ 8&lt;/i&gt;(4): 1-35. Available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://tesl-ej.org/ej32/a1.htm&quot;&gt;http://tesl-ej.org/ej32/a1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/6102599160038871143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/06/interesting-recent-research-penny-ur.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/6102599160038871143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/6102599160038871143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/06/interesting-recent-research-penny-ur.html' title='Interesting recent research according to Penny Ur - Pt. 2'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefRrvTalWgRXIjq0h9dcgdqcZDRE-6b40OPbXh70vGleFeQkJlpUDS1X4Pd7YG1LjsmQ-q75bRwZ2PFnLbpIsvR5ibdITo9sh2xjndfbQjP7_4ntQZDH-sO1XRlXrEpj-zL5N0am4hJH_idKnwQAmAlKGmYFmlI9aTsXMHcTRVdYjZBnjvYInShcSlg/s72-c/20230419_105119.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-3463234863313820680</id><published>2023-05-17T11:10:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2023-06-04T22:19:49.737+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Conference"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Research"/><title type='text'>Interesting recent research according to Penny Ur (IATEFL 2023) - Pt. 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Insights from Penny Ur’s IATEFL 2023 talk in lieu of a proper conference report&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WBHQu9t37Mux7fE3eetyyabj2nO6iYrtrO_INKj8d1ahUe8PQ4j4cHLVF9uFDMLS4-I_2Gpscr4qkMhEJsQZPPRqRGAElhrXjPv53oJ1u1e4-KpjlIb4pLJXRG1gzOoXGeq1NmBbX39xwFGFJrDBQhluV9M74ko5Dib8X5V6bwzxzOIurVXkOAh0bQ/s455/2023-Harrogate-logo.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;455&quot; data-original-width=&quot;455&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WBHQu9t37Mux7fE3eetyyabj2nO6iYrtrO_INKj8d1ahUe8PQ4j4cHLVF9uFDMLS4-I_2Gpscr4qkMhEJsQZPPRqRGAElhrXjPv53oJ1u1e4-KpjlIb4pLJXRG1gzOoXGeq1NmBbX39xwFGFJrDBQhluV9M74ko5Dib8X5V6bwzxzOIurVXkOAh0bQ/w200-h200/2023-Harrogate-logo.png&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few people in the industry can make research sound sexy the way Penny Ur and Scott Thornbury can. But it’s probably only the now retired Penny Ur who can get away with a conference session entitled &lt;i&gt;Interesting recent research &lt;/i&gt;and the blurb that goes:&amp;nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;“One of the advantages of being retired but still involved in ELT is that one has more time to browse through recent books and journals in search of interesting research studies. In this session, I’ll share some of the ones I’ve found on a variety of topics…”&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Penny Ur started her session with some caveats: not all the research is applicable or practicable for the classroom while not everything that goes on in the classroom is supported by research – a sentiment she has often expressed &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/oct/16/teacher-tesol-academic-research-useful&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After defining what is meant by recent (the last 5-10 years)&amp;nbsp;and what is considered interesting (what she personally finds interesting), in what followed Penny Ur bombarded the audience with highlights of no less than 30 research studies – all in under 25 minutes! I doubt that any blogger reporting from the conference could keep up with the barrage, except for, perhaps, &lt;a href=&quot;https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/category/iatefl/iatefl-harrogate-2023/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sandy Millin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; name=&quot;top1&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And, as you can see, I have also been fired with enthusiasm to report on this session – my only write-up from IATEFL 2023.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Helpfully, the studies she presented were divided into six strands:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Age and language learning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;L1 in the language classroom&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oral corrective feedback&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Inferencing meaning from context&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The flipped classroom&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The use of pictures&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Below I briefly summarise each strand accompanied by some personal thoughts and reflections.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;Age and language learning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;The popular belief that children are better foreign language learners has prompted educational policy makers around the world to advocate for an earlier start of foreign language instruction. Recent – and not so recent – research, however, shows that younger is not always better. In fact, numerous studies conducted in school settings indicate to the contrary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results of the Barcelona Age Effect (BAF) project, a longitudinal study reported in Muñoz (2006), show that in a typical foreign language setting such as a primary/secondary school, where time is limited, age does not afford the same advantages as it does in a naturalistic language learning setting. Contrariwise, older learners (teenagers) may fare better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a review of research on the age factor, Muñoz and Singleton (2010) lament the fact that other factors contributing to learner success have been largely ignored. Among these are the learners&#39; motivation, attitudes, affiliation with the L2 and, perhaps most importantly, the amount of exposure and quality of input. The kind of learning child learners are better at - implicit learning - requires vast amounts of exposure. Unfortunately, in a school setting with a couple of classes a week, exposure is woefully insufficient making it difficult for children to leverage implicit learning mechanisms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their recent paper,&amp;nbsp;Lightbrown and Spada (2020) – &quot;I would read anything by them&quot;, said Penny, &quot;because they are very sensible” – argue against two common foreign language learning misconceptions: &quot;start as early as possible&quot; and &quot;use only L2&quot;. They conclude that &quot;studies in schools settings around the world have failed to find long-term advantages [ultimate attainment] for an early start or exclusive use of the L2 in the classroom&quot;. But before we move on to the latter topic, here are some personal reflections.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Further thoughts and practical implications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;From the usage-based perspective, language learning relies on the massive amount of exposure. In the course of their daily lives, L1 acquirers (children) are exposed to thousands of linguistic constructions, from which they gradually extract patterns and regularities. See Alison Wray&#39;s discussion in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/6372/1/puzzle_of_language_learning.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The puzzle of language learning: From child’s play to‘linguaphobia’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;in which she argues against&amp;nbsp;an earlier commencement of foreign language instruction in the UK. Coming from the usage-based perspective, Wray contends that a classroom-based approach to L2 learning may be at odds with young children&#39;s natural language learning tendencies, specifically memorisation and manipulation of whole chunks of language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Check out also &lt;a href=&quot;https://theconversation.com/is-it-a-case-of-the-younger-the-better-for-children-learning-a-new-language-44751&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this popular article by Florence Myles&lt;/a&gt;, a researcher
  45. from the University of Essex (like Penny Ur would read anything by Lightbrown and
  46. Spada, I’d read anything by Florence Myles), which I often use on my teacher-training courses as an introduction to the &#39;younger is better&#39; debate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;The use of L1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;“English is not the only way to go” could be the subtitle of this strand of research presented in the talk. The most recent study on the topic – de la Fuente &amp;amp; Goldenberg’s (2022) – involved
  47. two groups of adult beginners learning Spanish. Although both groups made progress
  48. in their Spanish proficiency – measured through speaking and writing tests – the class where the use of L1 was not discouraged
  49. outperformed the one that stuck to the target language only. The authors argue for a principled use of L1, not only as a last resort (when all else fails), but for, among others, the following functions:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  50.  
  51. &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;procedural communication&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;establishing or
  52. maintaining control of the group&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;reducing anxiety&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;explicit
  53. focus on grammatical and vocabulary&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Promoting the use of L1 may seem easier in EFL contexts but is perfectly feasible in ESL contexts as well, as described in Menken
  54. and Sanchez’s (2019) study conducted in New York. Several public schools offering courses in ENL (English as a New Language – an updated term for ESL) implemented
  55. translanguaging pedagogy –&amp;nbsp;bringing students’ home language into class discussions,
  56. developing multilingual literacy strategies etc. The study found that translanguaging
  57. can not only serve as a&amp;nbsp; scaffolding tool for learning English, but result in transformative
  58. changes for the school as a whole by empowering minority students and offering them better opportunities for academic advancement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I found less convincing Lee’s (2018) study, in which low-proficiency students in Korea were encouraged to write essays in L1 first, before translating them into English. But I was pleasantly surprised by Scheffler and Butzkamm&#39;s (2019) defence of bilingual drills, in which a teacher gives prompts in L1 (German and Polish in the present study) and students respond in English, drawing on usage-based approaches to L2 acquisition. &quot;Surprised&quot; because in the past Scheffler was quite critical of usage-based theories (see, for example, his &lt;a href=&quot;https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article-abstract/69/4/437/631101&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;debate with Christian Jones&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;i&gt;ELT Journal&lt;/i&gt;) and &quot;pleasantly&quot; because one of the suggested drills in the article uses Katie Melua’s song &lt;i&gt;If you were a sailboat&lt;/i&gt;. Drills don’t have to be be boring and mechanical –&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Schefller and Butzamp show that bilingual drills can be used not only for the manipulation of structures, but also for the manipulation of ideas and induce positive emotions in learners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;BLOG_video_class&quot; height=&quot;366&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5CuKcUU2xx4&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; youtube-src-id=&quot;5CuKcUU2xx4&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Further thoughts and practical implications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;The last study immediately reminded me of Ken Lackman&#39;s excellent IATEFL 2022 workshop on just that: using drills, although his focus was substitution drills. See my last year&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/05/iatefl-2022-report-and-reflection.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;IATEFL report&lt;/a&gt; with a link to Ken&#39;s handout. As you can see, some practitioners didn&#39;t ditch the drills when they fell out fashion.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;Oral corrective feedback&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Penny set the scene for this strand of interesting recent research by citing Lyster and Randa’s (1997) seminal study, which showed that recast was the most common oral error correction technique used by teachers, but the least effective one. Just to remind the reader, when recasting the teacher doesn&#39;t indicate directly that the learner&#39;s utterance was incorrect, but rather repeats it with the errors corrected (Student: &lt;i&gt;I want to explain why I lated.&lt;/i&gt; Teacher: &lt;i&gt;Oh, you want to explain why you were late&lt;/i&gt;. Student: &lt;i&gt;Yes&lt;/i&gt;). Recasts are popular because, presumably, they allow unobtrusive reformulation of ill-formed utterances and do not throw learners off like explicit error correction might.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The question remains as to whether we should correct at all during a communicative task or is it better to refrain from correcting until after the task has been completed? In other words, the crux of the matter is timing: should we provide &lt;b&gt;immediate &lt;/b&gt;correction, but perhaps do so unobtrusively using recasts (although these have been shown to be rather ineffective) or should we &lt;b&gt;delay &lt;/b&gt;correction?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Learners seem to prefer to be corrected at the moment they make the mistake, as shown in the studies by Li (2017) and Harmer, P (2015) (the latter happens to be Jeremy Harmer&#39;s brother). Of course, just because students prefer something doesn’t mean it is actually beneficial. So what do intervention studies show?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The most recent paper mentioned in the talk (Fu and Li 2022) claims the superiority of immediate corrective feedback (although it was conceptualized somewhat differently to previous studies). The experiment described in the paper involved several groups of middle school students in a private school in China learning regular and irregular verb forms. The authors recommend correcting errors immediately after the first exposure to a new language item in order to rectify errors before they are proceduralized in the learner’s interlanguage. For optimal results, they argue, instruction and correction should go hand in hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Further thoughts and practical implications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;Error correction is a topic of considerable interest and intense debate. Plonsky and Brown (2015) identified as many as 18 meta-analyses of corrective feedback in the SLA literature, none of them providing conclusive evidence as to which method of correction works best. Perhaps, while researchers keep debating, teachers would be best advised to keep using –&amp;nbsp;or, when necessary, refraining from –&amp;nbsp;a variety of techniques to ensure optimal results. As one of many numerous papers on error correction argues, “a variety of CF [corrective feedback] types is probably more effective than consistent use of only one type” and “it may not be necessary or even possible for researchers to identity the single most effective CF strategy” (Lyster, Saito, and Sato 2013: 21). Nuff said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;to be continued ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/06/interesting-recent-research-penny-ur.html&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; for Part 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;References&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;A full list of references to research studies cited in the talk can be found on Penny Ur&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://padlet.com/pennyur/pennyur2023-7eajqm5nig7rlbft&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Padlet board&lt;/a&gt;. Additional references not mentioned in the talk are listed here:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lyster, R., Saito, K., &amp;amp; Sato, M. (2013). Oral corrective feedback in second language classrooms. &lt;i&gt;Language Teaching, 46&lt;/i&gt;(1), 1-40.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Myles, F. (2015, July 30).&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Is it a case of ‘the younger, the better’ for children learning a new language? &lt;/i&gt;The Conversation.&amp;nbsp;https://theconversation.com/is-it-a-case-of-the-younger-the-better-for-children-learning-a-new-language-44751&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Plonsky, L., &amp;amp; Brown, D. (2015). Domain definition and search techniques in meta-analyses of L2 research (Or why 18 meta-analyses of feedback have different results).&lt;i&gt; Second Language Research, 31&lt;/i&gt;(2), 267-278.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wray, A. (2008). The puzzle of language learning: From child&#39;s play to ‘linguaphobia’&lt;i&gt;. Language Teaching, 41&lt;/i&gt;(2), 253-271.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;80%&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  59. &lt;a name=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;1 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sandy Millin, a teacher trainer and author, is a very prolific blogger&lt;a href=&quot;#top1&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;↩&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  61. &lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/3463234863313820680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/05/interesting-recent-research-according.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3463234863313820680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3463234863313820680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/05/interesting-recent-research-according.html' title='Interesting recent research according to Penny Ur (IATEFL 2023) - Pt. 1'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WBHQu9t37Mux7fE3eetyyabj2nO6iYrtrO_INKj8d1ahUe8PQ4j4cHLVF9uFDMLS4-I_2Gpscr4qkMhEJsQZPPRqRGAElhrXjPv53oJ1u1e4-KpjlIb4pLJXRG1gzOoXGeq1NmBbX39xwFGFJrDBQhluV9M74ko5Dib8X5V6bwzxzOIurVXkOAh0bQ/s72-w200-h200-c/2023-Harrogate-logo.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-4915333737355642889</id><published>2023-01-07T16:11:00.019+00:00</published><updated>2023-01-08T16:24:03.146+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocation forks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Grammar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recycling"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2022: follow up</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Activities for reviewing and recycling the language&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;from News Quiz 2022&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmZbwuRly3eZVEVIZfANlriNqzdr4jr5E8khCrNrfNJdGIsQYvlL4Zz18mE9hTIHaUBjUOObzAS2ARdJkugMAw35bgx_uzZaIizFxe4Muk0PZk1rlkEVv5UK0CVr8V_NPQlHdXoB3Ujjvr-IBheo8XqQKis5H2L_LK4btLijCbNcuNZbzJ7tRX80RLQ/s1000/News%20Quiz%202022%20collage.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;643&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1000&quot; height=&quot;206&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmZbwuRly3eZVEVIZfANlriNqzdr4jr5E8khCrNrfNJdGIsQYvlL4Zz18mE9hTIHaUBjUOObzAS2ARdJkugMAw35bgx_uzZaIizFxe4Muk0PZk1rlkEVv5UK0CVr8V_NPQlHdXoB3Ujjvr-IBheo8XqQKis5H2L_LK4btLijCbNcuNZbzJ7tRX80RLQ/s320/News%20Quiz%202022%20collage.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Image credits:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flic.kr/p/2nNUoJG&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Matt Hrkac&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[CC BY 2.0]; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/koreanet/52521325292/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Heo Manjin | Korea.net&lt;/a&gt; [CC BY-SA 2.0];&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/51992919668&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Number 10&lt;/a&gt; [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://flickr.com/photos/44124348109@N01/52004185747&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Steve Jurvetson&lt;/a&gt; [CC BY 2.0]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp;I hope the latest edition of the News Quiz provided some learning opportunities for your students and you&#39;re ready to do some further language-focused work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like in the past two (pandemic) years, the follow-up activities come in different formats. Below you will find drag&#39;n&#39;drop activities on LearningApps, one matching activity on WordWall (Intermediate level only) and &#39;traditional&#39; worksheets in editable Google Docs. As a lead-in, you can show&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-64030450&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this BBC News video&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and ask students which stories mentioned in the video appeared in the News Quiz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you haven&#39;t seen News Quiz 2022 - click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/12/news-quiz-2022.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Accompanying Quizlet sets :&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2022/sets&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2022/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The activities are grouped by level according to the two versions of the News Quiz.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Online activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1a&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p5x2ntowt23&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p5x2ntowt23&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1b&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=ppxc7sd3j23&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=ppxc7sd3j23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=piyao1qm223&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=piyao1qm223&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;font-weight: normal; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;color: black; font-weight: 400;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  62. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p5x2ntowt23&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 300px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pbzcciqx523&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pbzcciqx523&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; (preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pws0zk38j23&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pws0zk38j23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  63. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pbzcciqx523&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 300px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Collocation match: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wordwall.net/resource/919323&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://wordwall.net/resource/919323&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  64. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;380&quot; src=&quot;https://wordwall.net/embed/b8561292149e4f3691010d9d0d169440?themeId=1&amp;amp;templateId=3&amp;amp;fontStackId=0&quot; style=&quot;max-width: 100%;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  65. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Worksheets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Paper-based&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;worksheets, which can be adapted for online teaching. Answer keys appear in the second parts of the documents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;(B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7hpPmYHa8EhxtolQrKTsN7hCGgu7oC1BT808H9seRs/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Google doc or preview below.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  66. &lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTCz_f4DCW31VKquMoGkAQ1gs-9Vf_ii/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;(B1+/B2-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/192lGLWhbc9RpcxxQnugyRbFQwmfkPryd9kNlfkBB6X4/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download the Google doc or preview below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  67. &lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSPn_LjiRhNJwfSJ7-w8PFKblPHFyz69/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you spot any mistakes or encounter any difficulty accessing any of these, do let me know in the comments below.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/4915333737355642889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/01/news-quiz-2022-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/4915333737355642889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/4915333737355642889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/01/news-quiz-2022-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2022: follow up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmZbwuRly3eZVEVIZfANlriNqzdr4jr5E8khCrNrfNJdGIsQYvlL4Zz18mE9hTIHaUBjUOObzAS2ARdJkugMAw35bgx_uzZaIizFxe4Muk0PZk1rlkEVv5UK0CVr8V_NPQlHdXoB3Ujjvr-IBheo8XqQKis5H2L_LK4btLijCbNcuNZbzJ7tRX80RLQ/s72-c/News%20Quiz%202022%20collage.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-7879823298195967796</id><published>2022-12-30T21:58:00.006+00:00</published><updated>2023-01-07T22:26:29.632+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2022</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv60HlkV6Mi8_5e8pb9pGe6PD5w21Cum2M27_SB9GamaHGsbaOp7XKgzzsMvalbv7UpXlrqZq9AVPaCnutVrt_oH1qHwufpgnsDsxckFjBNt4lamQmkuasMHgciYoTdyVvl3e68Kr5lISzCXbqvA3VVasJCh4nbq44UAZdiqCDkBXkgMhubdmWyt-bwQ/s899/Queen_Elizabeth_II_in_March_2015.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;899&quot; data-original-width=&quot;681&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv60HlkV6Mi8_5e8pb9pGe6PD5w21Cum2M27_SB9GamaHGsbaOp7XKgzzsMvalbv7UpXlrqZq9AVPaCnutVrt_oH1qHwufpgnsDsxckFjBNt4lamQmkuasMHgciYoTdyVvl3e68Kr5lISzCXbqvA3VVasJCh4nbq44UAZdiqCDkBXkgMhubdmWyt-bwQ/s320/Queen_Elizabeth_II_in_March_2015.jpg&quot; width=&quot;242&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here&#39;s the 2022 edition of the annual news quiz some of you have already been asking me about. And yes, I did it myself - took me just a few days - without any assistance from AI! As you may know, ChatGPT has no concept of 2022 because its training ended in 2021, and it was basically useless (when I tried, it generated quiz questions based on fictional events, including a new pandemic and a divorce of a celebrity couple who broke up years ago).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just like in the past two years - since the start of the pandemic - the quiz comes in several different formats, suitable for different teaching scenarios (face-to-face or online).&amp;nbsp;And as usual, it&#39;s packed with lots of juicy lexical chunks and other vocabulary items for your students to explore.&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The quiz is available in two levels:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1 or higher)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and three formats, all of which can be edited if you wish to adapt them&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Google Slides presentation. To edit, click on &lt;i&gt;File -&amp;gt; Make a copy&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Google Doc. To edit, click on &lt;i&gt;File -&amp;gt; Download -&amp;gt;&lt;/i&gt; select the desired format&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a gamified quiz on Quizizz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The quiz is accompanied by a very detailed Teacher&#39;s guide (scroll down to the very end)&amp;nbsp;full of ideas on how to work with the language.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As usual, stand by for vocabulary review and expansion activities in a follow up post in the new year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE (7 Jan. 2023): click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2023/01/news-quiz-2022-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for follow up activities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wishing you a happier year ahead!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Slides&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TIb42V_bMw3HNla2DdXKl_r1Uxsayh0UgYl_Kmfnw9A/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TIb42V_bMw3HNla2DdXKl_r1Uxsayh0UgYl_Kmfnw9A/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H8LZ_dgvC9c8JT_Ox4RKlQROEr7Y-ytRhnZ1AReLHJ0/edit&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H8LZ_dgvC9c8JT_Ox4RKlQROEr7Y-ytRhnZ1AReLHJ0/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Docs / PDF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is the &#39;old&#39; format suitable for a face-to-face classroom. This can also be sent to students by email for review after the lesson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eK9WBkkJtLUxIQns1yJto0HE5r_-3wsU0oThdu2UYHM/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/12eQM-vKvu7yh_McsYJxFpUPY2BO6q5_T/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DrtQovh_HgMm55GsPPTAWpQEN2GUZMclQVppyLmw6M/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JHAYhN1ZnmVuO55CNav31Z0NWCbir5NR/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Quizizz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advanced:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/63af0e93ddaa90001d2402af&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/63af0e93ddaa90001d2402af&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Intermediate:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/63af196173fa64001d5e4edc&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/63af196173fa64001d5e4edc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Teacher&#39;s Guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bc8LSIo-8aRkAvFkbzXnqmIkMtT0xrM8Qbj5sVXPsTQ/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  68. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/7879823298195967796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/12/news-quiz-2022.html#comment-form' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/7879823298195967796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/7879823298195967796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/12/news-quiz-2022.html' title='News Quiz 2022'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv60HlkV6Mi8_5e8pb9pGe6PD5w21Cum2M27_SB9GamaHGsbaOp7XKgzzsMvalbv7UpXlrqZq9AVPaCnutVrt_oH1qHwufpgnsDsxckFjBNt4lamQmkuasMHgciYoTdyVvl3e68Kr5lISzCXbqvA3VVasJCh4nbq44UAZdiqCDkBXkgMhubdmWyt-bwQ/s72-c/Queen_Elizabeth_II_in_March_2015.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-1927087159299849809</id><published>2022-05-29T18:17:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2022-05-29T21:13:28.970+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Conference"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="IATEFL"/><title type='text'>IATEFL 2022 report and reflection</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Some highlights from the annual IATEFL conference, which took place in Belfast on 17-20 May&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6a8O1WcvxT8mHgN5NNOtjlLnhxYPjQrkKORlUQILN2pJ9gvCP4ZrR2aL1Yip2h-SkFnfTv2KpddT-r9vGhJyF-t9o8nKPQzwao9W84c_9KITA7hldI4FZz9dpVQvJo2xB6IDw7OlpIAGzfvebMWKKAlSBVMCIHnqD4LKL_-2Z6w-zyICqmvJ1qxP0FQ/s400/Belfast%20logo%20transparent.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;258&quot; data-original-width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;206&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6a8O1WcvxT8mHgN5NNOtjlLnhxYPjQrkKORlUQILN2pJ9gvCP4ZrR2aL1Yip2h-SkFnfTv2KpddT-r9vGhJyF-t9o8nKPQzwao9W84c_9KITA7hldI4FZz9dpVQvJo2xB6IDw7OlpIAGzfvebMWKKAlSBVMCIHnqD4LKL_-2Z6w-zyICqmvJ1qxP0FQ/s320/Belfast%20logo%20transparent.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The first post-pandemic &#39;in-person&#39; IATEFL conference saw a slight dip in attendance figures&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;about 1600 delegates compared to the pre-pandemic figures of nearly 2500&amp;nbsp;attendees&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;but it didn&#39;t detract from the electric atmosphere, which was largely due to the ability to interact face-to-face again. Indeed, I didn&#39;t see members of my PLN for three long years! Between networking and catching up with friends and colleagues I managed to see some sessions. Here are some highlights.&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;In her first IATEFL presentation, the proud IATEFL scholarship winner &lt;b&gt;Rachel Tsateri&lt;/b&gt; shared a framework for planning collaborative and reflective online lessons she had devised during the period of emergency remote teaching. She referred to the framework&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;or at least the main portion of it&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;as a &lt;b&gt;jigsaw-gloss&lt;/b&gt;. As the name suggests, the framework combines two collaborative learning techniques: jigsaw-reading or, in this case, listening and dictogloss (read more &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2011/12/would-you-like-it-gift-wrapped.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2011/12/would-you-like-it-gift-wrapped.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBNR8lgB9O2ayWgf1-MT5kMG_Da4l3tjYfMnwmaXEgYog64DeW4WjA47FOaj_5kj9XJafnn6_2EfiVanVxyhW0ssQQ6s_TTJGCZ5l081ekeQy-iNLHRQzPitvJPgV5Zh26uyDY2bN7zJb6MIa1TMTSjBCtLT1F28bUv3ZBif7ihD1jKPCBs_Cv_3Luw/s2026/original_fbcb9f84-75f9-404b-ae9b-fa09d176878b_PXL_20220517_131318360.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1191&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2026&quot; height=&quot;188&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBNR8lgB9O2ayWgf1-MT5kMG_Da4l3tjYfMnwmaXEgYog64DeW4WjA47FOaj_5kj9XJafnn6_2EfiVanVxyhW0ssQQ6s_TTJGCZ5l081ekeQy-iNLHRQzPitvJPgV5Zh26uyDY2bN7zJb6MIa1TMTSjBCtLT1F28bUv3ZBif7ihD1jKPCBs_Cv_3Luw/s320/original_fbcb9f84-75f9-404b-ae9b-fa09d176878b_PXL_20220517_131318360.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The framework involves students individually listening to parts of an audio recording (which Rachel has prepared herself with her colleagues) and then reconstructing the text in groups (breakout rooms). This is followed by focus on lexis, specifically chunks, after which students have an opportunity to go back to their versions and notice any differences between them and the original script. These stages were outlined using minimalist slides with elegantly simple visuals, which prompted me to make some last minute changes to my own presentation. Of course, the eternal question, as Rachel admitted, is how can students retain the language they have learned?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To help Rachel improve the framework further she invited the participants to post their suggestions on social media using the hashtag&amp;nbsp;#jigsawgloss. You can visit Rachel&#39;s blog The TEFL Zone: &lt;a href=&quot;https://teflzoneracheltsateri.wordpress.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://teflzoneracheltsateri.wordpress.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Rachel&#39;s framework concerned lesson planning, &lt;b&gt;Maria Davou&lt;/b&gt;, an edupreneur and school owner from Athens, shared a framework for language education in general called &lt;b&gt;Deeper Learning&lt;/b&gt;. The innovative framework, which is used by Glossomatheia, a language school Maria runs in Athens, places emphasis on philosophical enquiry. At the beginning of a school year, students choose content areas they are interested in and, with the help and guidance of teachers, delve deeper into the chosen subject area throughout the year.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMInlObQAOS1qp2-IANmxlc7SMLiZhIF9UutMk7Tlz_CdG2P7GZ3K3_mSyBcIFhWldhqQvLu1j7YUZ9hSv5ZlkMwOaQeuYtS3pjsCabLt_8dGF9vwsDt7GYPTmxhxkZEbmyeOD_BO6W1W8FYGJiXvKKk8xOOavSgAf2bzI5IzCZH8rdxT6pzsszZtkA/s2592/PXL_20220517_135347361.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2592&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1944&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMInlObQAOS1qp2-IANmxlc7SMLiZhIF9UutMk7Tlz_CdG2P7GZ3K3_mSyBcIFhWldhqQvLu1j7YUZ9hSv5ZlkMwOaQeuYtS3pjsCabLt_8dGF9vwsDt7GYPTmxhxkZEbmyeOD_BO6W1W8FYGJiXvKKk8xOOavSgAf2bzI5IzCZH8rdxT6pzsszZtkA/s320/PXL_20220517_135347361.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A slide from Maria Davou&#39;s presentation &lt;br /&gt;(apologies for the poor quality)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Maria is an inspiring and engaging speaker, who made interesting links between ELT pedagogy and philosophy. In addition to the familiar terms such as formative/summative assessment, Maria drew upon concepts from philosophy and cognitive psychology, such as &lt;i&gt;the bizarreness effect&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;the trolley problem&lt;/i&gt;, which had me reaching for Google on many an occasion.&amp;nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Encouraging the audience to rethink the role of published materials and focus on what matters&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;the learner and learning &lt;span style=&quot;color: #4d5156;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Maria admitted that the first two months without any coursebook can be intimidating. She also traced how the approaches to language learning has evolved from learning through automation/drilling to learning through doing and learning through thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuWdwE6c1WusdvO4z2AAc3Kgprv79rXdGHESNDbRZY7S62FNPGJzI4JakjbZKhLy_wNcISZVxl8xLDS9coNesbWlVmMCPmIjbbo_eu_HwqBLjoIW9mfRtrhtDaAd34A-eHPXiJBB9Yg3etFS69JgmVB-GtuEQ5oxnhH5CSY0P_-sXI88MUNOlIvYms9Q/s2592/PXL_20220517_165402634.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2592&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1944&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuWdwE6c1WusdvO4z2AAc3Kgprv79rXdGHESNDbRZY7S62FNPGJzI4JakjbZKhLy_wNcISZVxl8xLDS9coNesbWlVmMCPmIjbbo_eu_HwqBLjoIW9mfRtrhtDaAd34A-eHPXiJBB9Yg3etFS69JgmVB-GtuEQ5oxnhH5CSY0P_-sXI88MUNOlIvYms9Q/s320/PXL_20220517_165402634.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Voting for the best sentence at Ken&lt;br /&gt;Lackman&#39;s workshop. Our group&#39;s &lt;br /&gt;sentence (involving the word &quot;atrocities&quot;) won.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Yet, the seemingly old fashioned drilling was the focus of &lt;b&gt;Ken Lackman&lt;/b&gt;&#39;s presentation at the end of Day 1. After providing a brief history of &lt;b&gt;substitution drills&lt;/b&gt; and the reasons why they fell out of fashion, we were treated to a series of engaging group activities involving so many different variations on substitution drills that I lost count! Talking of counting, one drill, for instance, involved producing as many sentences following the same pattern as possible while the group secretary was keeping a tally. You can see all the different activities and variations in a handout, which Ken has kindly provided on his website:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kenlackman.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://kenlackman.com&lt;/a&gt; (click on the &lt;i&gt;IATEFL&lt;/i&gt; tab).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being one of my so-called lexical buddies, Ken is naturally very much on the same page regarding what is considered a collocation in pedagogical terms - a combination of two content words. According to Ken and myself, &lt;i&gt;switch off &lt;/i&gt;would not qualify as a collocation (although some linguists may consider it as such), but &lt;i&gt;switch off the light &lt;/i&gt;(verb + noun) would.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was my eighth time attending IATEFL in-person&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;and seventh time presenting&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;and I&#39;ve never missed a single session Ken Lackman has given, save, perhaps, for one or two. I&#39;ve come always come away with a new technique or a fresh idea.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite this being my seventh time presenting I can&#39;t say I didn&#39;t suffer from nerves before my&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/DeltaPubUK/posts/5249094995112803&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;presentation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on Day 2 and hardly attended any sessions that day. Was it because it was my first international conference appearance in more than two years or the fact that for the first time my presentation was designated as &quot;prodprom&quot; (product promotion) as I was demonstrating activities from my new book?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I resumed my attendance on Day 3. That was the day of the the &lt;a href=&quot;https://besig.iatefl.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BESIG&lt;/a&gt; showcase. Just to clarify, a showcase is a series of presentations lasting all day organised by one of IATEFL&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.iatefl.org/meet-iatefl-sigs&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Special Interest Groups&lt;/a&gt;. Opening the showcase was &lt;b&gt;Ian Badger&lt;/b&gt;, an author of a number of popular Business English titles, with a talk on the rules of everyday &lt;b&gt;business writing&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoDnLiA2BKu_FCtrYKZW4LBGfIH6FoSJoLsTDN_iwbne0LejUwPCo_WD6FEatG8u7-uKCXlkuP68BdpS9Dk8fABzo2C6Ma8wuSx9mprQioPKsRC4LSTGQQl_x3Qs764IUe6DAkDepGHzuM0zzYEgHYFV9--KnnSPMMY_AgzfFJbMJiGoxiTDKeN7htOg/s2592/PXL_20220519_101115817.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1944&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2592&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoDnLiA2BKu_FCtrYKZW4LBGfIH6FoSJoLsTDN_iwbne0LejUwPCo_WD6FEatG8u7-uKCXlkuP68BdpS9Dk8fABzo2C6Ma8wuSx9mprQioPKsRC4LSTGQQl_x3Qs764IUe6DAkDepGHzuM0zzYEgHYFV9--KnnSPMMY_AgzfFJbMJiGoxiTDKeN7htOg/s320/PXL_20220519_101115817.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Some native speaker idioms that may lead to &lt;br /&gt;breakdowns&amp;nbsp;in communication&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Ian showed a number of emails written by non-native and native English speaking business people. The first email exchange was between a Chinese and a German speaker of English, which was &#39;imperfect&#39;, with occasional grammar mistakes and lexical inappropriacies. Nevertheless these two language users successfully achieved the communicative goal and the goods were dispatched on time avoiding the demurrage (a new word for me and many other members of the audience) fees. Ian then focused on&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;or rather gently poked fun at&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;three emails written by native English speakers. One was criticised for being too short, the other for being too long-winded. The main beef, however, seemed to be the phrase &quot;greetings from a chilly Manchester&quot; closing an otherwise formal email, which I thought would be perfectly acceptable and even welcome in some cultural contexts. The key takeaway, it seems, was that it is the the native English speakers who should (re)learn English!&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The tips Ian gave included keeping emails short and snappy&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;because emails are often read on phones these days&amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;and avoiding idioms. I wonder if Julie Moore, who was speaking next door on the role of idioms in ELT, had the same message to convey. Unfortunately hers was among many talks and workshops I couldn&#39;t make it to during these three very hectic days.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Did you go to any of the sessions I&#39;ve mentioned? What sessions did you go to? What were they like? Finally, if you didn&#39;t go to IATEFL, would you consider attending next year? 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The reactions from the students I&#39;ve showed it to this week have been: &quot;touching&quot;, &quot;impressive&quot; and &quot;outstanding&quot;.&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve made two versions of this activity for different levels - just like with my &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/01/news-quiz-2021-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news quizzes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At both levels, the activity starts with pre-teaching key vocabulary. Although it&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2012/03/listening-template.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;debatable&lt;/a&gt; whether pre-teaching vocabulary before listening is beneficial, I found it helpful with this particular video. You will see that the higher level version also has a follow-up activity for the vocabulary that was &#39;pre-taught&#39;. If you are surprised at the conspicuous absence of other pre-listening activities, such as prediction or activating background knowledge, I felt that the events in Ukraine provided sufficient background and context to the activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use or adapt this activity, do let me know in the comments below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&#39;s hoping for peace soon.
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  70. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Link to the video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_di_giovanni_what_i_saw_in_the_war&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.ted.com/talks/janine_di_giovanni_what_i_saw_in_the_war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u35LCmOQ6OJHTS641R190RMzR0NMsZfedfxVRNvXQuI/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1diPZ4gSUOjMNFeZQ52v3TNWIxGyxDekR/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
  71. Google Slides for remote teaching or classroom use&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V5_hG4eAQ9FfURAvePFUfsCDZ8p2LwmPwoSGAMAMTOw/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  72. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/18VQa2xap3rU6Q6rQ6LcXQ9KPeAnqPB96dmbzmde2u6s/&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/132gGS4WR0-4r9gbONJWpv3Pt2PuSA9th/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;
  73. Google Slides for remote teaching or classroom use&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;
  74. &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tiLMmmk0bnhSWAPaZoloxcuS-MidP6nFHyjbWu6vzNk/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/1836792260790332635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-i-saw-in-war-ted-talk.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/1836792260790332635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/1836792260790332635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-i-saw-in-war-ted-talk.html' title='What I saw in the war'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9c1M25jpIAHMObOTvEUEpogjxGr3qMneEy5OiYuelVesswSJXvjI2LmiPRfq3F7SY3YXIa40oj5Pbp3B_a88rXlfZMqUqIlGbdvuoq9KpVq-ynUrATTnn70BfROxflCML7vElgleF1GA8mfGWxM7b4XH0m0oCEPgmxHM9ZJXyuT2S1eTVWau2DxllHA=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-8673378368805701646</id><published>2022-01-06T18:42:00.015+00:00</published><updated>2022-01-09T15:42:42.473+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexical Approach"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recycling"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2021 - Follow Up</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Activities for reviewing and recycling the language&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;from News Quiz 2021&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQTcTnDuw6k0TuSCOVeRnS0ksK5F9gTwyRd8-RggvtmjwqQGrTc4Cv_iFcj2FWGNa6YJpsx-ZvbT34mGivQ8T5oCC2cvvh6Hl42EtDKeg88YaLe8Bo2Uxte3VEURaH6AfZU42dJ5Ce4AZWYDM7hJ4MtPfD4EA6FQLcwDHgiFfWXoSo3Ot3qYeqdO4Vvg=s1743&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1030&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1743&quot; height=&quot;189&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQTcTnDuw6k0TuSCOVeRnS0ksK5F9gTwyRd8-RggvtmjwqQGrTc4Cv_iFcj2FWGNa6YJpsx-ZvbT34mGivQ8T5oCC2cvvh6Hl42EtDKeg88YaLe8Bo2Uxte3VEURaH6AfZU42dJ5Ce4AZWYDM7hJ4MtPfD4EA6FQLcwDHgiFfWXoSo3Ot3qYeqdO4Vvg=s320&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Image credits: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given#/media/File:Ever_Given_in_Suez_Canal_viewed_from_ISS.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[PD];&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DC_Capitol_Storming_IMG_7965.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;TapTheForwardAssist&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[CC BY-SA 4.0];&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Britney_Spears_2013.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Glenn Francis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[CC BY-SA 4.0]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of the News Quiz and didn&#39;t find&amp;nbsp;too difficult. Like last year, the follow-up activities come in different formats, most of which can be edited and adapted for your needs. These include drag&#39;n&#39;drop activities on LearningApps, one matching activity on WordWall (Intermediate level only) and &#39;traditional&#39; worksheets in PDF/editable Google Docs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you haven&#39;t seen News Quiz 2021 - click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/12/new-quiz-2021.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Accompanying Quizlet sets :&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2021/sets&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2021/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(two for Advanced and one for Intermediate level)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The activities are grouped by level according to the two versions of the News Quiz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Online activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1a&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pb8myy57522&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pb8myy57522&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1b&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=ps6a4jiaa22&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=ps6a4jiaa22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p7aogztun22&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p7aogztun22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;font-weight: normal; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;color: black; font-weight: 400;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  75.  &lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pg9hvgqr522&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 300px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  76.  &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 1:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pg9hvgqr522&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pg9hvgqr522&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; (see preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Drag&#39;n&#39;drop 2:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p66fe165n22&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p66fe165n22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pg9hvgqr522&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 300px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  77.  &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Collocation match:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wordwall.net/resource/27077155&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://wordwall.net/resource/27077155&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;380&quot; src=&quot;https://wordwall.net/embed/79f873e001b84886aba4cb63e7c9f6e4?themeId=1&amp;amp;templateId=3&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Worksheets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Paper-based &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;worksheets, which can be adapted for online teaching.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;(B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q9nHqKJxTkO_8osVh4_IhOHD81MuG1rv/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allow=&quot;autoplay&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q9nHqKJxTkO_8osVh4_IhOHD81MuG1rv/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;(B1/B2-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ooQwxq9j3Q1MoDLHs7Xjw-QSaJNwlmDK/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe allow=&quot;autoplay&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ooQwxq9j3Q1MoDLHs7Xjw-QSaJNwlmDK/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
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  79.  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Discussion &amp;amp; Lexis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Like last year,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/SallyHarg99&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sally Hargreaves&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has come up with discussion questions containing the chunks from the quiz (highlighted in&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: red;&quot;&gt;this colour&lt;/span&gt;) and which includes some additional chunks (highlighted in&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #4c91d0;&quot;&gt;blue&lt;/span&gt;). This activity can be used to provide additional encounters with the target lexical items.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ve adapted the same idea for the intermediate level with recycled chunks in &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #ffa400;&quot;&gt;this colour&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jyBLiSUqQZFNMcdPp9c5NZyMkP0wz_xl/edit?usp=sharing&amp;amp;ouid=108040138237474801855&amp;amp;rtpof=true&amp;amp;sd=true&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;(all credits to Sally Hargreaves)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;560&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jyBLiSUqQZFNMcdPp9c5NZyMkP0wz_xl/pub?embedded=true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U8MZXt2JXgFcnWdTaygpZtzKTfDTrHgJ/edit?usp=sharing&amp;amp;ouid=108040138237474801855&amp;amp;rtpof=true&amp;amp;sd=true&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;560&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U8MZXt2JXgFcnWdTaygpZtzKTfDTrHgJ/pub?embedded=true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/8673378368805701646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/01/news-quiz-2021-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/8673378368805701646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/8673378368805701646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/01/news-quiz-2021-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2021 - Follow Up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQTcTnDuw6k0TuSCOVeRnS0ksK5F9gTwyRd8-RggvtmjwqQGrTc4Cv_iFcj2FWGNa6YJpsx-ZvbT34mGivQ8T5oCC2cvvh6Hl42EtDKeg88YaLe8Bo2Uxte3VEURaH6AfZU42dJ5Ce4AZWYDM7hJ4MtPfD4EA6FQLcwDHgiFfWXoSo3Ot3qYeqdO4Vvg=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-1151705992971650989</id><published>2021-12-30T14:26:00.013+00:00</published><updated>2022-01-07T07:50:03.612+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Grammar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2021</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; 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And so is the blogger. Yes, as you can see, I&#39;ve survived the apocalypse and am proud to present the 2021 edition of the traditional News Quiz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unlike the previous year, the news stories related to coronavirus (oops, COVID-19) are kept to a minimum. But just like last year, the quiz is available in three formats: Google Slides, Quizizz and a&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PDF / editable Google Docs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first two can be used in both in-person and remote teaching scenarios, while the last one is suitable for face-to-face teaching only. Also, I&#39;ve kept the multiple choice format from last year to keep the trivia part of the activity brief and devote more time to the language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The quiz is available in two levels:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1 or higher)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and three formats, all of which are editable so you can adapt them if you wish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;a Google Slides presentation. To edit, click on &lt;i&gt;File&lt;/i&gt; -&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Make a copy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a Google Doc. To edit, click on &lt;i&gt;File&lt;/i&gt; -&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Download &lt;/i&gt;-&amp;gt; select the desired format&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a gamified quiz created on Quizizz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The quiz is accompanied by&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;the Teacher&#39;s guide (scroll down to the very end)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE (6 Jan. 2022): c&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;lick &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2022/01/news-quiz-2021-follow-up.html&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;for follow up language-focused activities.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wishing you all a happier 2022!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Slides&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gvCWl655fbhyHcwsDzT1X9Ot1IPLrFsiQixPfUQALU4/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gvCWl655fbhyHcwsDzT1X9Ot1IPLrFsiQixPfUQALU4//embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nJFJhI-GAn1yPWLl6Zjyi4gVuGuxle7LTbwhRwXOeqk/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nJFJhI-GAn1yPWLl6Zjyi4gVuGuxle7LTbwhRwXOeqk/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Docs / PDF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is the &#39;old&#39; format suitable for a face-to-face classroom. This can also be sent to students by email for review after the lesson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kJSXH5vf-vvk8aMoUPKmZiVDF1fv8dn63IvWBNMpBxE/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U8e0UYSF1X90iRFv52keNjODnYJ-1GgR/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1njM5nM1uKkudR0LwTJSdLPIu8DGSPIbBe5f41htv7aA/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zRyx8k37iBN-AF_6anr98Hx5vrLWKWU/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Quizizz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advanced:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ee;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/61cc5f612d1e79001e5dea7f&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/61cc5f612d1e79001e5dea7f&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Intermediate:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/61d18772224a3a001ef6124e&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/61d18772224a3a001ef6124e&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Teacher&#39;s Guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CzSY6rwyTXBqtqhPG0KyQZRZAgN2bmtO/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Acknowledgements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some questions have been adapted from end-of-year news quizzes in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/23/briefing/end-of-year-news-quiz.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59634182&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BBC website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I&#39;ve created a series of interactive online activities on WordWall and LearningApps, which you can adapt if necessary and share with your students. There are also &#39;traditional&#39; worksheets in Word and PDF, which those of you teaching remotely can display via ScreenShare on Zoom or Teams or simply send to students by email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you haven&#39;t seen News Quiz 2020 - click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/01/news-quiz-2020.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;See also this &lt;a href=&quot;https://jeopardylabs.com/play/news-2020&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jeopardy version&lt;/a&gt; (Advanced level) kindly shared by a colleague of mine, Marlene Saban&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Accompanying Quizlet sets (&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;work in progress&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;):&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2020/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2020/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The activities are grouped by level according to the two versions of the News Quiz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Online activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Matching 1a:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pssne32bn21&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pssne32bn21&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; (preview below)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Matching 1b:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pgagayqp321&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pgagayqp321&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Matching 2:&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pm4totybj21&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pm4totybj21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pssne32bn21&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 500px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;color: black; font-weight: 400;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;Matching 1:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/display?v=phe08edy221&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/display?v=phe08edy221&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(see preview below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Matching 2:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pw6ki187t21&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://learningapps.org/display?v=pw6ki187t21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://learningapps.org/watch?v=phe08edy221&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; height: 500px; width: 100%;&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Collocation match:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wordwall.net/resource/9290664&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://wordwall.net/resource/9290664&lt;/a&gt; (preview below)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe 100=&quot;&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;yes&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;380&quot; src=&quot;https://wordwall.net/embed/7842b6b8fdf64efb8649ed684285181f?themeId=1&amp;amp;templateId=3&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Discussion &amp;amp; Lexis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/SallyHarg99&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sally Hargreaves&lt;/a&gt; has kindly shared this discussion activity, which is seeded with chunks from the quiz (highlighted in &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #02bdc7;&quot;&gt;this colour&lt;/span&gt;) and which includes some additional chunks (highlighted in &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #ffb600;&quot;&gt;orange&lt;/span&gt;). This activity can be used to provide an additional encounter with the target lexical items, which, combined with the highlighting - a kind of &lt;i&gt;input enhancement&lt;/i&gt; - increases the chances of their acquisition (Szudarski &amp;amp; Carter 2016).&amp;nbsp;I&#39;ve adapted the same idea for the intermediate level.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;News Quiz 2020: Discussion questions - Advanced (B2+/C1)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;(all credits to Sally Hargreaves)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;click &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nnci3o5uCzlscJsDCQReaDjKy07b-Gaf/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download Word doc or preview below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRxZPnwxLHfGW9Thvt4JIiHqO2zeVI7LTi0pR2mAd6VyBCigNMlvcgX3bMPfW2eeQ/pub?embedded=true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;News Quiz 2020: Discussion questions - Intermediate (B1/B2-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/13z1sSzaSi4yCg3tzU5mNfum6lhFHM7OR/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/13z1sSzaSi4yCg3tzU5mNfum6lhFHM7OR/pub?embedded=true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Worksheets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;These are more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;traditional-style worksheets (like in the past).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YS61doCL79IYH1j-JE3XODYqo1OHhZ_njQbcA08468s/edit?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T5sKFuIkPyWotbvrgnsBbkIgKkyL1bY5/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;References&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;Szudarski, P., &amp;amp; Carter, R. (2016). The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners&#39; acquisition of collocations. &lt;i&gt;International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 26&lt;/i&gt;(2), 245-265.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/6744596827351836616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/01/news-quiz-2020-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/6744596827351836616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/6744596827351836616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/01/news-quiz-2020-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2020 - Follow Up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6I3uFsFe2yB0fhpZ7eCTHOY8e8-uFywx0WpOKZvvlxNaoOHFiK9Jc45-tGDXXjGz9m6yv763x7wG-MaWAJ58_LQoJjDfjjE7w_T8WiM0K6lumkffytb7IhuYdF-4DJdvgcVmKbNj1DpWu/s72-c/2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-2107204417588104283</id><published>2021-01-03T19:56:00.036+00:00</published><updated>2021-01-10T22:50:32.840+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2020</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifbsBw-knwWRd-mcihxBv7192reNH_AsxHluRDFJ7bEJAWyDFbj7GqBzgJkfgrH05oJ5_vksMeCb7G1N-0unMMkxQKXi_qrFTHQ90VcjNEAsEmShhXqXaNfU-5FYhfJsy94Hr_Hr9c6t48/s2048/victor-he-9X9K7GJmVlk-unsplash.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1360&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2048&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifbsBw-knwWRd-mcihxBv7192reNH_AsxHluRDFJ7bEJAWyDFbj7GqBzgJkfgrH05oJ5_vksMeCb7G1N-0unMMkxQKXi_qrFTHQ90VcjNEAsEmShhXqXaNfU-5FYhfJsy94Hr_Hr9c6t48/w320-h212/victor-he-9X9K7GJmVlk-unsplash.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photo by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unsplash.com/@victorhwn725?utm_source=unsplash&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_content=creditCopyText&quot;&gt;Victor He&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unsplash.com/photos/qtiI3Aan-fw?utm_source=unsplash&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_content=creditCopyText&quot;&gt;Unsplash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here&#39;s the delayed 2020 edition of my traditional news quiz with apologies to my friends and followers. I hope it still arrives in time for your first lesson of the new year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This year&#39;s quiz is heavily influenced by the pandemic, which shouldn&#39;t come as a surprise! Still it has a considerable dose of non-Covid related new stories from the world of sports, science and entertainment.&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The unprecedented events of the year call for a slight change in the format of the quiz. As most of you are probably teaching remotely (using Zoom or MS Teams), the quiz is made with Google Slides and Quizizz (which is similar to Kahoot, but better!) and can be used in both traditional and remote teaching scenarios.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another change is that the questions are all multiple choice this time. As usual, the idea is to get through the quiz part of the activity as quickly as possible - and multiple choice helps keep this part short - and devote sufficient time to the language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The quiz is available in two levels:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1 or higher)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For each level three formats are available. All of these are editable so you can adapt them if you wish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;a Google Slides presentation. To edit, click on File -&amp;gt; Make a copy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a Google Doc. To edit, click on File -&amp;gt; Download -&amp;gt; select the desired format&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a gamified quiz created on Quizizz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Below you will also find:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;the Teacher&#39;s guide (note that the document is being updated)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 10 January 2021: Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/01/news-quiz-2020-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; for follow up language-focused activities&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wishing you all a happier year ahead!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Slides&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FX7vA4D7HRN5Tov_iyhU1_48W9Kow3y6nb6JIxLimoY/edit&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRjmvSA-ovbyUZ6YIfTrnlTZ2MKuvuKc4dP6Mz8tGQijcoqpqQrMAoClCXPSv3cIrSHG5XMrYOXoZrS/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level followed by language focus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pScdXR3Rvmnc23CJxZr44hiXJXi2ihm3yaicn9jh4eA&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;340&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vS0Wd5UcgPbmyZr_wujwNvFw2pI6ONkwSruuiYZejdJxyAQWloqHANE6Vx47VBRZ-YyvmBEKH_4n76I/embed?start=false&amp;amp;loop=false&amp;amp;delayms=3000&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Google Docs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is the &#39;old&#39; format suitable for a face-to-face classroom. This can also be sent to students by email for review after the lesson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Advanced (B2+/C1) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_tH-EOgiQbmptFIbh7TJXbkvuqyXy0UvsvXjy-OcBrA/edit&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vDrFYSfp38j2yGrzobUeBH8MbVLV7Bw4/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1/B2) level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Preview below or click&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wh9akXvMp6thTkYzth5R9EcE3Ko728__vnuAzz2nXGk/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;to download the editable Google doc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YTUUI3AgGpJqksVlKhJ4J4RL22VGye8n/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Quizizz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advanced:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ee;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ff238323248a7001b05dc71/news-quiz&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ff238323248a7001b05dc71/news-quiz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Intermediate:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ff2392c5f0058001b471a94/news-quiz-inter&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ff2392c5f0058001b471a94/news-quiz-inter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;Teacher&#39;s Guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe height=&quot;760&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDJYiFTTW0bP5NNoRy9bk--1FW5lhk-f/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Credits &amp;amp; acknowledgements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Many thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tzmdesign.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tzvi Meller &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/olga.rotko&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Olga Rotko&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;@ &lt;a href=&quot;https://vk.com/en_force&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;EnForce&lt;/a&gt; for their help with the various design aspects of the quiz.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some questions are adapted from end-of-year news quizzes in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/08/learning/Special-News-Quiz-2020.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55057717&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BBC website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/2107204417588104283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/01/news-quiz-2020.html#comment-form' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/2107204417588104283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/2107204417588104283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2021/01/news-quiz-2020.html' title='News Quiz 2020'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifbsBw-knwWRd-mcihxBv7192reNH_AsxHluRDFJ7bEJAWyDFbj7GqBzgJkfgrH05oJ5_vksMeCb7G1N-0unMMkxQKXi_qrFTHQ90VcjNEAsEmShhXqXaNfU-5FYhfJsy94Hr_Hr9c6t48/s72-w320-h212-c/victor-he-9X9K7GJmVlk-unsplash.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-7523640828814338493</id><published>2020-08-13T09:33:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2020-08-16T17:49:15.646+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Songs"/><title type='text'>Something Just Like This</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;A listening activity based on a Coldplay&#39;s song, which can be optionally followed by jigsaw reading.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  81. &lt;br /&gt;
  82. This is a song activity based on a surprise collaboration between Coldplay and the Chainsmokers from a couple of years ago. I&#39;ve used it successfully with students of different ages: teenagers and young adults, who complimented me on my musical taste (!)&lt;br /&gt;
  83. &lt;br /&gt;
  84. Note that the teacher&#39;s notes are not provided because the student worksheet is pretty self-explanatory. To check the answers for the While Listening activities, see this lyrics video:&lt;br /&gt;
  85. &lt;br /&gt;
  86. &lt;br /&gt;
  87. &lt;iframe allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FM7MFYoylVs&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  88. &lt;br /&gt;
  89. &lt;br /&gt;
  90. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  91. &lt;br /&gt;
  92. &lt;h4&gt;
  93. &lt;/h4&gt;
  94. &lt;h3&gt;
  95. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Procedure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  96. &lt;br /&gt;
  97. &lt;h4&gt;
  98. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Pre-listening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  99. Facilitate discussion about heroes and superheroes with students - at this stage you don&#39;t have to tell students that a song is to follow. Use the handout below (1st page) or click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lfYoRr8yKXE1YsVW7bvbS6eB-MLyhN42/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to open it in the editable Word format.&lt;br /&gt;
  100. &lt;br /&gt;
  101. &lt;br /&gt;
  102. &lt;iframe height=&quot;980&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aKBRgHM4FuCIz2a4K00C4hq9CBGFInEZ/preview&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  103.  
  104. &lt;br /&gt;
  105. &lt;br /&gt;
  106. &lt;h4&gt;
  107. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;While-Listening 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  108. Students listen to the song and try to catch the names of the heroes/superheroes mentioned. Four are mentioned: Achilles, Hercules, Spiderman and Superman (all in the first verse)&lt;br /&gt;
  109. &lt;br /&gt;
  110. &lt;h4&gt;
  111. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Pre/While-Listening 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  112. On the 2nd page you will find more intensive listening activities: matching (A), gapfill (B), correct the mistakes (C). Note that A should be done before students listen; B and C are done while listening.&lt;br /&gt;
  113. &lt;br /&gt;
  114. Allow students to compare the answer in pairs, then play the lyrics video to check the answers with the whole class. You can also find the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.coldplay.com/song/something-just-like-this/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;lyrics&lt;/a&gt; on Coldplay&#39;s official website.&lt;br /&gt;
  115. &lt;br /&gt;
  116. &lt;h4&gt;
  117. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Post-Listening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  118. Discuss the meaning of the song. There is an extensive interpretation of the lyrics &lt;a href=&quot;https://windswaves.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/mythological-superheroes-in-something-just-like-this-by-coldplay-and-the-chainsmokers/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;on this blog&lt;/a&gt;, which also points out some possible inaccuracies (Achilles and his gold?)&lt;br /&gt;
  119. &lt;br /&gt;
  120. &lt;br /&gt;
  121. &lt;h4&gt;
  122. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Reading (optional)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  123. As a follow up I have used &lt;a href=&quot;https://teachrock.org/lesson/heroes-mortals-chainsmokers-coldplays-something-just-like/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this reading activity&lt;/a&gt; on TeachRock.org&lt;br /&gt;
  124. Divide the class into two groups:&lt;br /&gt;
  125. &lt;br /&gt;
  126. Group A: &lt;a href=&quot;https://3o9d0y1wloj7e90sc37nviar-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Handout-1A-%E2%80%93-Heracles_Hercules-and-Wonder-Woman.pdf?x81697&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hercules &amp;amp; Wonder Woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  127. Group B: &lt;a href=&quot;https://3o9d0y1wloj7e90sc37nviar-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Handout-1B-%E2%80%93-Achilles-and-Superman.pdf?x81697&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Achilles &amp;amp; Superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  128. &lt;br /&gt;
  129. No idea how it would work on Zoom but worth trying.&lt;br /&gt;
  130. &lt;br /&gt;
  131. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  132. I hope you and your students enjoy the activity as much as we did.&lt;/div&gt;
  133. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  134. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  135. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  136. &lt;i&gt;For other song activities, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://leoxicon.blogspot.com/search/label/Songs&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  137. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/7523640828814338493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/08/something-just-like-this.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/7523640828814338493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/7523640828814338493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/08/something-just-like-this.html' title='Something Just Like This'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/FM7MFYoylVs/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-8685695671322285432</id><published>2020-05-25T22:56:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2021-01-04T21:00:06.468+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Remote teaching"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vocabulary"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Writing"/><title type='text'>Zoom activity: Photos of the week</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  138. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NEsNqYrkvbT0vapYlxHkg9MJn5sETqUJItmRH4v88Vyn8BSW03lXxt-1Zmznvwj2cFYKcSWtOQh9NTmvre-OgrUHxL98t8lkIkH3YM-XzoGGV9Xs1X1ptWeFxfVc4fhGnA7KpCIoOypZ/s1600/photos+of+the+week+atlantic.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;583&quot; data-original-width=&quot;725&quot; height=&quot;257&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NEsNqYrkvbT0vapYlxHkg9MJn5sETqUJItmRH4v88Vyn8BSW03lXxt-1Zmznvwj2cFYKcSWtOQh9NTmvre-OgrUHxL98t8lkIkH3YM-XzoGGV9Xs1X1ptWeFxfVc4fhGnA7KpCIoOypZ/s320/photos+of+the+week+atlantic.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  139. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photos of the Week section in &lt;i&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  140. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  141. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;
  142. &lt;/div&gt;
  143. Although the lockdown restrictions are gradually being eased in many countries, remote teaching is still in effect - and looks set to continue for the unforeseeable future. Here is an activity I’ve been using a lot at the beginning of my Zoom lessons lately. I suppose you can call it a warmer.&lt;br /&gt;
  144. &lt;br /&gt;
  145. &lt;br /&gt;
  146. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  147. &lt;br /&gt;
  148. &lt;h3&gt;
  149. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Activity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  150. &lt;div&gt;
  151. &lt;b style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;any - but would work best with B1+ students; a bit of a struggle for A2 but can be done with a lot of support from the teacher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  152. &lt;div style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;
  153. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  154. &lt;div style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;
  155. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Focus:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Speaking and later&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Writing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  156. &lt;div style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;
  157. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  158. &lt;div style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;
  159. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aim:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Come up with captions for memorable images depicting current events&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  160. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  161. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  162. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  163. &lt;h3&gt;
  164. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Preparation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  165. &lt;/div&gt;
  166. &lt;div&gt;
  167. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Google: &lt;b&gt;BBC Week in Pictures&lt;/b&gt;. Find the latest one. The new photo collection is always published on Saturday so, at the moment of writing this, the latest one is for the week of 16 - 22 May 2020:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52768835&quot;&gt;www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52768835&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  168. &lt;div&gt;
  169. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  170. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Other sources are I use are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  171. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  172. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;- &lt;b&gt;The Guardian&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;- 20 Photographs of the Week:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/twenty-photographs-of-the-week&quot;&gt;www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/twenty-photographs-of-the-week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  173. &lt;div&gt;
  174. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;- &lt;b&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/b&gt; - Photos of the Week:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/categories/photos-of-the-week/&quot;&gt;www.theatlantic.com/photo/categories/photos-of-the-week/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  175. &lt;div&gt;
  176. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Both of these, unlike the BBC one, have permanent addresses so you can bookmark them for future lessons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  177. &lt;div&gt;
  178. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  179. Note that although I&#39;ve been using The Atlantic without any problem for the past month, this morning it wouldn&#39;t display the content as I am not a subscriber. Perhaps I&#39;ve exceeded my monthly quota of free views?&lt;br /&gt;
  180. &lt;br /&gt;
  181. &lt;br /&gt;
  182. &lt;h3&gt;
  183. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Procedure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  184. &lt;/div&gt;
  185. &lt;h4&gt;
  186. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Phase 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  187. &lt;div&gt;
  188. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Share you screen via Zoom so that students can see the image but not the caption underneath, for example this one from a couple of weeks ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  189. &lt;div&gt;
  190. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  191. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  192. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A demonstrator clashes with a riot police officer&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10DDE/production/_112168096_gettyimages-1211910466.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  193. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52560387&quot;&gt;www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52560387&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  194. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  195. &lt;div&gt;
  196. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  197. &lt;div&gt;
  198. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  199. &lt;div&gt;
  200. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Elicit from students:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  201. &lt;div&gt;
  202. &lt;ul&gt;
  203. &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;What can you see? What is happening?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  204. &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Where was the photo taken? What country/city?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  205. &lt;/ul&gt;
  206. &lt;/div&gt;
  207. &lt;div&gt;
  208. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  209. &lt;div&gt;
  210. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Then scroll down to reveal the caption:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  211. &lt;div&gt;
  212. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  213. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  214. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipgO0URGtNtAFIyaqfYahQ8RgfXUJCiIEXKdtKttJFvC25k-eWgF1nz9qDQFhbVGY3BJcO0GMciZm3iBpD2NQ3kZyl7xwDF70X3RbFtewo8dyeFJHQs-QznFcD_d-4BxhDdaaIePHrYXg/s1600/BBC+week+in+pictures.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;285&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipgO0URGtNtAFIyaqfYahQ8RgfXUJCiIEXKdtKttJFvC25k-eWgF1nz9qDQFhbVGY3BJcO0GMciZm3iBpD2NQ3kZyl7xwDF70X3RbFtewo8dyeFJHQs-QznFcD_d-4BxhDdaaIePHrYXg/s400/BBC+week+in+pictures.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  215. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Same photo as above with the caption revealed&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  216. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  217. &lt;div&gt;
  218. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  219. &lt;div&gt;
  220. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  221. &lt;div&gt;
  222. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Get one student to read the caption:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  223. &lt;div&gt;
  224. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;A demonstrator clashes with a riot police officer during an anti-lockdown protest in the Netherlands&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  225. &lt;div&gt;
  226. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  227. &lt;div&gt;
  228. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Focus on some language in the caption. Usually there are a couple of interesting items, such as &lt;i&gt;clash with&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;riot&lt;/i&gt; in this one. You can ask students:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  229. &lt;div&gt;
  230. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  231. &lt;div&gt;
  232. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Protesters / demonstrators clash with police. Who else can clash with each other? &lt;/i&gt;[e.g. two politicians on an issue]&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;(See &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/clash_2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;some examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt; in the Oxford Learner&#39;s Dictionary)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  233. &lt;div&gt;
  234. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  235. &lt;div&gt;
  236. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;You can also ask:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  237. &lt;div&gt;
  238. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why might somebody want to protest against a lockdown?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  239. &lt;div&gt;
  240. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Try to relate the images to the events that are happening in the students&#39; home country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  241. &lt;div&gt;
  242. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  243. &lt;div&gt;
  244. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Go on to the next photo and repeat the procedure by hiding the caption, eliciting what&#39;s happening, revealing the caption and focusing on the language. You don&#39;t have to use all the photos in the series. Curate the ones that would be appropriate for your students from the three sources above. I usually pick 8-10 photos according to the &lt;u&gt;level&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;- not too long captions for lower levels - and the &lt;u&gt;language&lt;/u&gt; - useful new and not-so-new words and collocations or lexical items that we have already studied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  245. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  246. &lt;br /&gt;
  247. &lt;h4&gt;
  248. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Language note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  249. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Naturally, a lot of language in the captions these days revolves around Covid-19 and its impact, and contains such chunks as &lt;i&gt;lockdown measures are eased&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;restrictions are lifted&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;practise/maintain/observe social distancing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;and other &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.iatefl.org/news-views/coronalingo&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;coronalingo&lt;/a&gt;. But you can also come across a lot of more general - and less morbid - lexis.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;For example, in this week&#39;s collection of photos in the Guardian (click &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/22/20-photographs-of-the-week&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;), I found the following items worthy of my and my student&#39;s attention:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  250. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  251. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;commute &lt;/b&gt;- Where do you go to when you &lt;b&gt;commute&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;/i&gt; [to work or back home from work]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  252. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;cool off&lt;/b&gt; - What might you do to &lt;b&gt;cool off&lt;/b&gt;? &lt;/i&gt;[to take a dip]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  253. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;sips a cup of coffee &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- &lt;i&gt;What&#39;s the opposite of &lt;b&gt;sip &lt;/b&gt;/&lt;b&gt; take a sip&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;/i&gt; [to drink smth in one gulp - my B2 students have learned this one!]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  254. &lt;div&gt;
  255. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  256. &lt;div&gt;
  257. Note that in the Guardian the captions appear to the left of the image, so I open a blank Notepad document to hide and then minimise it to reveal them. Of course, you can also fiddle with sharing a portion of the screen using Zoom&#39;s advanced sharing options.&lt;br /&gt;
  258. &lt;br /&gt;
  259. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  260. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9X3qeU7dq-C1yTfsrXqEz73VzuioGEeWuFiTKLc-j9Zc9Rf6CXdzBoPPQXpzn7Jwgh66J4cFDNRKpQRKQApBUY_AjKS9fLmGn5Ms5lZCidVz2bgdMoHKx0jYzU5FY-N56q0ZasEkkAcc/s1600/the+guardian+week+in+photos.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;202&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9X3qeU7dq-C1yTfsrXqEz73VzuioGEeWuFiTKLc-j9Zc9Rf6CXdzBoPPQXpzn7Jwgh66J4cFDNRKpQRKQApBUY_AjKS9fLmGn5Ms5lZCidVz2bgdMoHKx0jYzU5FY-N56q0ZasEkkAcc/s400/the+guardian+week+in+photos.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  261. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photo in the Guardian with the caption hidden&lt;br /&gt;
  262. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/22/20-photographs-of-the-week&quot;&gt;www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/22/20-photographs-of-the-week&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  263. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  264. &lt;/div&gt;
  265. &lt;div&gt;
  266. &lt;h4&gt;
  267. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Phase 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  268. &lt;/div&gt;
  269. &lt;div&gt;
  270. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;After you have done the activity in a couple of lessons, introduce the writing component. After the usual elicitation (&lt;i&gt;What? Where?&lt;/i&gt; etc), ask students to suggest their own caption and type it in the Zoom chat box.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Correct the mistakes and reformulate learners&#39; captions where necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  271. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  272. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Then reveal the caption and draw students&#39; attention to any differences between their versions and the original. Very often these would be involve more sophisticated language used (e.g. &lt;i&gt;bask in the sun&lt;/i&gt; instead of &quot;enjoy the sun&quot;) or shorter, more economical and laconic ways of saying something (e.g. &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52679694&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Residents brave rain and strong winds&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/i&gt; instead of &quot;People walk in the street despite the rain and severe weather...&quot;).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  273. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  274. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;However, sometimes students come up with better and catchier captions!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;For example, for this image my students suggested more interesting captions than the original one, including some nice lexis such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;stunning view, does yoga &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt; overlooking a lake.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  275. &lt;i style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  276. &lt;br /&gt;
  277. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  278. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjSVSwYkYVclPMY4bJBLG1xFlF3WEQPSTrT6pSWMIXbeSk6sE24yXvEM2aB9mh30ZklOXNnqwOk0r82q0bnA4wIAq9bn0h_ZQfAmbPEkoe48je7Bz8uMlEjpEsd3KzgICdZuwlpJjHzuZZ/s1600/BBC+week+in+pictures+with+caption.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;855&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1219&quot; height=&quot;280&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjSVSwYkYVclPMY4bJBLG1xFlF3WEQPSTrT6pSWMIXbeSk6sE24yXvEM2aB9mh30ZklOXNnqwOk0r82q0bnA4wIAq9bn0h_ZQfAmbPEkoe48je7Bz8uMlEjpEsd3KzgICdZuwlpJjHzuZZ/s400/BBC+week+in+pictures+with+caption.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  279. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52768835&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52768835&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  280. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  281. &lt;h3&gt;
  282. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rationale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  283. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Scott Thornbury, a big fan of using short texts for language teaching, states:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  284. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  285. Short texts are ideal for classroom use, since they can be subjected to intensive grammatical and lexical study, without overtaxing learners&#39; attention or memory, as may be the case with longer texts. Learning to cope with short texts is also good preparation for independent reading and listening, including dealing with longer texts. Moreover, short texts provide useful models for student production, in the form of speaking and writing.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  286. &lt;/div&gt;
  287. &lt;div&gt;
  288. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  289. &lt;div&gt;
  290. I think we have ticked all the boxes: VERY short texts, lots of lexical and (a bit of) grammatical study, reading, speaking, writing and what have you.&lt;/div&gt;
  291. &lt;div&gt;
  292. &lt;br /&gt;
  293. One final thing that is worth noting is that captions always seem to use Present Simple forms:&lt;/div&gt;
  294. &lt;div&gt;
  295. &lt;br /&gt;
  296. &lt;i&gt;A man gets a haircut...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  297. &lt;i&gt;A woman sips a cup of coffee ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  298. &lt;i&gt;A woman and her baby wait for a bus...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  299. &lt;i&gt;People commute on a bus...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  300. &lt;br /&gt;
  301. There goes all that time and energy you have spent asking learners to describe what&#39;s happening in a picture using the Present Continuous (&lt;i&gt;She&#39;s jumping. He&#39;s kicking a ball&lt;/i&gt;). Now go and try to explain why it is all in the Present Simple!&lt;br /&gt;
  302. &lt;br /&gt;
  303. &lt;br /&gt;
  304. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  305. &lt;i&gt;For more ideas for teaching via Zoom, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/03/3-ideas-for-synchronous-online-lessons.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;THIS POST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  306. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  307. &lt;/div&gt;
  308. &lt;h4&gt;
  309. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;References&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  310. &lt;div&gt;
  311. Thornbury, S. (2003). Teaching vocabulary using short texts. &lt;i&gt;Asian EFL Journal&amp;nbsp;5&lt;/i&gt;(4). Retrieved from:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.asian-efl-journal.com/journal-2003/&quot;&gt;www.asian-efl-journal.com/journal-2003/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  313. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzX3Tzvch5tpD45ZCOsk0Bv9UUfXkUi6DDazXrOfJOlhkIFYnHxfOJudZWz1H_e5L_8yJvztwF3mkqBlkHo9FzHnHoGUtyV-ZUThik5cN4Jb7jlkF0UG3s1_rhd9f7pebgrch5b4WURoAb/s1600/caroline-feelgood-b7EyYiLZ4f8-unsplash.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1067&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzX3Tzvch5tpD45ZCOsk0Bv9UUfXkUi6DDazXrOfJOlhkIFYnHxfOJudZWz1H_e5L_8yJvztwF3mkqBlkHo9FzHnHoGUtyV-ZUThik5cN4Jb7jlkF0UG3s1_rhd9f7pebgrch5b4WURoAb/s320/caroline-feelgood-b7EyYiLZ4f8-unsplash.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  314. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  315. Photo by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unsplash.com/@carolinerccrd?utm_source=unsplash&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_content=creditCopyText&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Caroline Feelgood&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unsplash.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Unsplash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  316. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  317. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  318. Now that many schools around the Coronavirus-stricken globe have been closed, teachers have had to come to grips with the idea that many have heard about or maybe even experimented with, but never really implemented in earnest - teaching online. I&#39;ve lost count of how many webinars and online tutorials on various online tools and platforms I have attended in the past week. Most of them were organised by various institutions I work for with each one choosing to use a different synchronous learning platform. The fact that most of these webinars were delivered by tech people exemplifies pretty much how you should &lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt; go about implementing edtech: instead of inviting (and paying!) a teacher experienced in remote teaching to do the job, let&#39;s ask the college&#39;s Moodle guy!&lt;br /&gt;
  319. &lt;br /&gt;
  320. On the other hand, teachers have taken to Twitter sharing activities, ideas and advice that is more pedagogy- rather than technology-driven. In a matter of a few days, the somewhat morbid hashtag #coronavirusteaching has gone viral (pun intended!).&lt;br /&gt;
  321. &lt;br /&gt;
  322. So consider me jumping on the bandwagon. In this post, I&#39;d like to share some activities that have worked well for me in this past week under a partial lockdown.&lt;br /&gt;
  323. &lt;br /&gt;
  324. &lt;br /&gt;
  325. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  326. &lt;br /&gt;
  327. &lt;h3&gt;
  328. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Zoom for synchronous lessons:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://zoom.us/&quot;&gt;https://zoom.us/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  329. &lt;br /&gt;
  330. Until this week I had only been invited to Zoom meetings as a participant; I had never hosted one. When it comes to other video and web conferencing platforms, I am fairly proficient with Adobe Connect, which I have used to conduct webinars in the past. I don&#39;t know if the Adobe Connect licence is too expensive or it&#39;s just falling out fashion, but most of my employers opt for cheaper alternatives. Having tried a few of these, I&#39;m pleased to inform you that Zoom is the most user-friendly tool out there for &#39;live&#39; online lessons. It has even certain advantages over Adobe Connect. For example, when screen-sharing you can still see the chat in a pop-up window. And you don&#39;t have to share all of your screen - you can choose what tab you want to be visible to the participants. Said that, Adobe&#39;s breakout room feature is better by far. On Zoom you can only be in one breakout room at a time, whereas on Adobe breakout rooms can be placed side by side allowing the teacher to monitor discussions in all of them simultaneously. On to some ideas now...&lt;br /&gt;
  331. &lt;br /&gt;
  332. &lt;h3&gt;
  333. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Activity 1: Student presentations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  334. Of course, students can prepare PowerPoints just like they would do in a regular class, but online lessons (via Zoom) offer a glimpse into your students&#39; lives because they are connecting with you from their homes. Why not take advantage of that? Here are some topics which are particularly suitable for online presentations, which&amp;nbsp;I have collected thanks to crowd-sourcing on Twitter (do click on the links for longer descriptions):&lt;br /&gt;
  335. &lt;br /&gt;
  336. &lt;h4&gt;
  337. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Using camera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  338. &lt;ul&gt;
  339. &lt;li&gt;give a tour of your apartment/house&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
  340. &lt;li&gt;show your bookcase and tell us about your favourite book(s) - courtesy of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ITLegge/status/1241124603583488005&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Helen Legge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  341. &lt;li&gt;walk us through a recipe - courtesy of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/MarekKiczkowiak/status/1240689981816885256&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Marek Kiczkowiak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  342. &lt;li&gt;introduce your pet and describe them (physically &amp;amp; routines); in case of not having pets, describe any toy which you have at home which is an animal - courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/cares___/status/1241278621731389440&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cares Diaz&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
  343. &lt;/ul&gt;
  344. &lt;div&gt;
  345. &lt;h4&gt;
  346. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Via screen-share&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  347. &lt;/div&gt;
  348. &lt;ul&gt;
  349. &lt;li&gt;give a virtual tour of a website you use&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
  350. &lt;li&gt;tell us about a memorable trip using Google photos / Flickr or Google Map&lt;/li&gt;
  351. &lt;li&gt;go through an article you&#39;ve recently read summarising the main points and highlighting the bits you agree/disagree with (using Annotate) - adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/MarekKiczkowiak/status/1240689981816885256&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Marek Kiczkowiak&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s idea&lt;/li&gt;
  352. &lt;/ul&gt;
  353. These ideas are suitable for different levels (e.g. tour of the house for A2) and ages (e.g. pet for young learners) as well as for both one-on-one and group scenarios. In group sessions, students can be given a choice of topics.&lt;br /&gt;
  354. &lt;br /&gt;
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  356. &lt;h3&gt;
  357. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Activity 2: Guess the word/chunk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  358. This is an activity for reviewing lexis I came up with on the spot. It is suitable for group lessons. Using the chat box send one student a &lt;b&gt;private&lt;/b&gt; message with one word/lexical chunk from a list of lexical items you would like to review. The student will see the message in the chat box with the word &#39;privately&#39; next to it. The student - with the mike unmuted - defines the word for other students to guess. Other students - with the mikes on mute - write their guesses in the chatbox.&lt;br /&gt;
  359. &lt;div&gt;
  360. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  361. &lt;div&gt;
  362. After a couple of students have had a go, up the ante a bit by making them come up with definitions - or rather examples - that contain &lt;i&gt;hmmm&lt;/i&gt; for the target item. For instance,&lt;br /&gt;
  363. &lt;br /&gt;
  364. &lt;i&gt;The airline went bankrupt, and thousands of passengers couldn&#39;t return home - they were hmmm.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  365. [left stranded]&lt;br /&gt;
  366. &lt;br /&gt;
  367. Humming the target word (&lt;i&gt;hmmm&lt;/i&gt;) encourages learners to rely less on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2012/06/syntagmatic-vx-paradigmatic.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;paradigmatic&lt;/a&gt; dimension, i.e. defining a word using antonyms or synonyms; and move towards the &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2012/06/syntagmatic-vx-paradigmatic.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;syntagmatic&lt;/a&gt; dimension, i.e. providing a definition that contains &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;co-text&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  372. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Activity 3: Whole class gap-fill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  373. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  374. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  375. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;For this activity you will need the &lt;b&gt;Annotate &lt;/b&gt;function.&amp;nbsp;Make sure it is enabled in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005706806-Using-annotation-tools-on-a-shared-screen-or-whiteboard#h_b81dec21-449f-4f7f-8165-c0060911268f&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;settings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  376. &lt;br /&gt;
  377. &lt;div&gt;
  378. Prepare a slide (PPT or Google Slides) with a few gapped sentences. In the slide below I use sentences for some AWL words (Sublist 5), which I already have on Quizlet, so the students should - in principle - already know them. Usually 12 sentences fill the slide well. Display this slide - this could be part of a longer presentation - via screen share.&lt;/div&gt;
  379. &lt;div&gt;
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  384. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSG4WNcMwOjnXWjx4CdTJ45JkSGFmCHWv_l9itgpnHlUWTnbzreQy5Osn7eRbiL2U3LsaKwqBXz3__gNzkEnFvdLA3Pk7u9usNGSC014GiO9MTV1Q8Vh28VqKQMpsJoqQHNseYVtR4C9n/s1600/slide+for+annoted+gapfill.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;900&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1440&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSG4WNcMwOjnXWjx4CdTJ45JkSGFmCHWv_l9itgpnHlUWTnbzreQy5Osn7eRbiL2U3LsaKwqBXz3__gNzkEnFvdLA3Pk7u9usNGSC014GiO9MTV1Q8Vh28VqKQMpsJoqQHNseYVtR4C9n/s400/slide+for+annoted+gapfill.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  385. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Gap-fill sentences with words from AWL Sublist 5. &lt;br /&gt;
  386. See the set here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/_72t3bk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/_72t3bk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  387. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  388. &lt;div&gt;
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  390. &lt;div&gt;
  391. Zoom&#39;s Annotate function allows you to annotate anywhere, not only on the whiteboard - in fact, I suspect the whiteboard may be of little use to language teachers. The Annotate button can be found at the top of the screen (the toolbar can be moved to the bottom of the screen, if necessary). When you click on Annotate, a new toolbar will open underneath with various options.&lt;/div&gt;
  392. &lt;div&gt;
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  395. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSZ90b_GsU6uHOcfFQirK2p5zeE97wf9SGukXznAXdT2eBYDyZUtcKccIi9a712y2Jpr4BSzn-CWG16jNJgWPzMeMcB6zRmyJ5RSP0hFjUIdLUueWFqQfvWR2UowY1uyNUkogZcdZ92QK/s1600/Zoom+annotated+gapfill.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;338&quot; data-original-width=&quot;970&quot; height=&quot;111&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSZ90b_GsU6uHOcfFQirK2p5zeE97wf9SGukXznAXdT2eBYDyZUtcKccIi9a712y2Jpr4BSzn-CWG16jNJgWPzMeMcB6zRmyJ5RSP0hFjUIdLUueWFqQfvWR2UowY1uyNUkogZcdZ92QK/s320/Zoom+annotated+gapfill.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  401. Students can enter missing words by drawing or typing text (preferable). If you click on three dots (More), you will find some additional options which might be handy. One is disable participants annotation - when you want students to stop. Another useful option is Show Names of Annotators - although names flash only for a few seconds when students start typing.&lt;/div&gt;
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  403. For better classroom management you can assign numbers to students so that they don&#39;t all type answers to the same question at the same time. As such, this activity is probably not suitable for very large classes. Alternatively, you can ask students to write the answers (with a corresponding number) in the chatbox.&lt;br /&gt;
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  411. What activities have you tried? What worked well for you? Please share your ideas for using Zoom or other platforms in the comments below.&lt;/div&gt;
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  415. And to finish off, some words of encouragement from Tyson Seburn, who tweeted this earlier this week (you can see the whole thread with 2 more tips &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/seburnt/status/1239253962265681920&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/div&gt;
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  421. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;
  422. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;
  423. You don&#39;t have to be an amazing online teacher suddenly and have a class that works as well as your f2f ones. No one expects that. Give yourself a break. 1/3 &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/O53XtXDxY7&quot;&gt;https://t.co/O53XtXDxY7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  424. — Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/seburnt/status/1239253962265681920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;March 15, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  425. &lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  426.  
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  428. Wise words I should heed myself!&lt;/div&gt;
  429. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/6447139565071422561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/03/3-ideas-for-synchronous-online-lessons.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/6447139565071422561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/6447139565071422561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/03/3-ideas-for-synchronous-online-lessons.html' title='3 ideas for synchronous online lessons on Zoom'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzX3Tzvch5tpD45ZCOsk0Bv9UUfXkUi6DDazXrOfJOlhkIFYnHxfOJudZWz1H_e5L_8yJvztwF3mkqBlkHo9FzHnHoGUtyV-ZUThik5cN4Jb7jlkF0UG3s1_rhd9f7pebgrch5b4WURoAb/s72-c/caroline-feelgood-b7EyYiLZ4f8-unsplash.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-3942517045093544955</id><published>2020-01-05T20:30:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-01-06T11:12:14.160+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Grammar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexical priming"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2019 - Follow Up</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  430. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHgqr-BCkn7wW2A20KFMeMZ1dUzECTkrCMCG4Llg8fSHGu_KlFvyPXb9_WXfVs-9GjNeUKS_BtwmYMHW3TMKJPNDuJef1ICQHlJTYQWJ-ZsB7U9wbRAQE2ens7poIjLRwVewb1z__pqgk/s1600/collage+News+Quiz+2019.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1065&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1050&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHgqr-BCkn7wW2A20KFMeMZ1dUzECTkrCMCG4Llg8fSHGu_KlFvyPXb9_WXfVs-9GjNeUKS_BtwmYMHW3TMKJPNDuJef1ICQHlJTYQWJ-ZsB7U9wbRAQE2ens7poIjLRwVewb1z__pqgk/s320/collage+News+Quiz+2019.jpg&quot; width=&quot;315&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  431. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Image credits: &lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greta_Thunberg_in_Global_Strike_for_Climate_2019_-2.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Frankie Fouganthin&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_on_fire_15042019-1_(cropped).jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Milliped&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_737_MAX_grounded_aircraft_near_Boeing_Field,_April_2019.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SounderBruce&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;br /&gt;
  432. under Creative Commons license [CC BY-SA 4.0]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  433. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  434. &lt;h4&gt;
  435. &lt;i&gt;Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2019&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  436. &lt;/i&gt;
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  438.  
  439. &lt;/h4&gt;
  440. Some of my followers have already been asking me for follow-up activities, particularly Quizlet sets, for the traditional end-of-year news quiz, which I posted last week. Incidentally, it was the 10th News Quiz I&#39;d posted here, on my blog (you can see all of them &lt;a href=&quot;https://leoxicon.blogspot.com/search/label/Quiz&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;), since I first launched the blog at the end of 2010...&amp;nbsp; by posting &lt;a href=&quot;https://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2010/12/tried-and-tested-idea-for-first-lessons.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;News Quiz 2010&lt;/a&gt;. So, how&#39;s that for a #10yearchallenge? I&#39;m actually surprised I&#39;ve kept at it for so long!&lt;br /&gt;
  441. &lt;br /&gt;
  442. &lt;br /&gt;
  443. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As usual, there are lots of activities here aimed at practising and expanding on the vocabulary and a bit of grammar) from the news quiz - about 4-5 pages for each level. These can be spread across and integrated into a series of lessons; some of them can be done at home, others are more suitable for You can download the activities in Word and edit/adapt them as you wich. They key (answers) is provided at the end of each level.&lt;br /&gt;
  444. &lt;br /&gt;
  445. &lt;br /&gt;
  446. &lt;ul&gt;
  447. &lt;li&gt;If you haven&#39;t seen the news quiz, click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-quiz-2019.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  448. &lt;li&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;https://jeopardylabs.com/play/news-quiz-2019&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jeopardy version&lt;/a&gt; (Intermediate level) kindly shared by a colleague of mine.&lt;/li&gt;
  449. &lt;li&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r_TWKRfiX5zrrPnMNx4x1WDqmXI5Pea0GuXlS7BBRdE/edit&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; for an online quiz version using Google Forms courtesy of&amp;nbsp; Cindy Komet. Make sure you copy it before using&amp;nbsp;(three dots in the top-right hand corner --&amp;gt; make a copy)&lt;/li&gt;
  450. &lt;li&gt;Accompanying Quizlet sets (IN PROGRESS)&lt;i&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2019/sets&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2019/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  451. &lt;/ul&gt;
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  453. &lt;br /&gt;
  454. &lt;br /&gt;
  455. &lt;h3&gt;
  456. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Downloads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  457. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced level (B2+/C1) - with answer key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  458. click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7ps2S1Gbs1k6TjX2gzTTHuAyT5ff-OJ/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  459. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7ps2S1Gbs1k6TjX2gzTTHuAyT5ff-OJ/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  460. to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  461. &lt;br /&gt;
  462. &lt;br /&gt;
  463. &lt;br /&gt;
  464. &lt;br /&gt;
  465. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate level (B1/B2) - with answer key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  466. click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eXJ8-vBEbsXy_uj8ecx5_w9_pDaYs1qu/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  467. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1212W4G0N94Rd9GnVK_od2tAZr2KVbDqJ/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  468.  
  469. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/3942517045093544955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/01/news-quiz-2019-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3942517045093544955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3942517045093544955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/01/news-quiz-2019-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2019 - Follow Up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHgqr-BCkn7wW2A20KFMeMZ1dUzECTkrCMCG4Llg8fSHGu_KlFvyPXb9_WXfVs-9GjNeUKS_BtwmYMHW3TMKJPNDuJef1ICQHlJTYQWJ-ZsB7U9wbRAQE2ens7poIjLRwVewb1z__pqgk/s72-c/collage+News+Quiz+2019.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-227065862200332790</id><published>2019-12-29T18:45:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-01-05T22:15:59.915+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Grammar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2019</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  470. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  471. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichChjSMKShe4156gIT0BbNEuV9FdR-7LbT-2nPkW_dNugKvfVlxwibqPwAPYQijibnWjUGc1TtjUnVcH303MJspoXznLNGztLdY92Y4ZYa8Sk6LmYHW69iYsZcGOiA99DYiwi1tw9DAIw/s1600/49055188321_0a37dafb3b_c.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;533&quot; data-original-width=&quot;799&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichChjSMKShe4156gIT0BbNEuV9FdR-7LbT-2nPkW_dNugKvfVlxwibqPwAPYQijibnWjUGc1TtjUnVcH303MJspoXznLNGztLdY92Y4ZYa8Sk6LmYHW69iYsZcGOiA99DYiwi1tw9DAIw/s320/49055188321_0a37dafb3b_c.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  472. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photo by &lt;a href=&quot;https://flic.kr/p/2hJQEqZ&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Katherine Cheng&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
  473. [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  474. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  475. &lt;br /&gt;
  476. Just as I finished working on this, a thought crossed my mind: perhaps it should have been an end-of-decade news quiz this time? Ah well... Anyhow, in keeping with the tradition, here&#39;s an end-of-year quiz based on the hottest news stories of the past year.&lt;br /&gt;
  477. &lt;br /&gt;
  478. It&#39;s a usual mix of politics, sports and entertainment - but no mention of Brexit whatsoever!&lt;br /&gt;
  479. &lt;br /&gt;
  480. And as usual, it&#39;s packed with lots of lexical chunks and other vocabulary items for your students to explore.&lt;br /&gt;
  481. &lt;br /&gt;
  482. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The quiz is available in two levels:&lt;br /&gt;
  483. &lt;br /&gt;
  484. - Intermediate (B1+/B2-) including a multiple choice version&lt;br /&gt;
  485. - Advanced (B2/C1 or higher)&lt;br /&gt;
  486. &lt;br /&gt;
  487. Both versions can be downloaded in Word format if you wish to adapt them.&lt;br /&gt;
  488. &lt;br /&gt;
  489. &lt;i style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Some questions are adapted from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/briefing/year-in-review-news-quiz.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;News Quiz: 2019 in review&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in The New York Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  490. &lt;br /&gt;
  491. The Intermediate level quiz has been checked using&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.englishprofile.org/the-cefr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;English Vocabulary Profile&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(EVP) and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lextutor.ca/vp/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VocabProfiler&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on LexTutor. The majority of the words in the quiz (93%) are K1 and K2 words, i.e. in the top 2000 most frequent words in English. There are only 29 words (tokens) that fall outside the K1-K2 frequency bands, for example:&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;bankrupt&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(K4 according to VocabProfiler / C1 according to EVP),&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;prestigious&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(K4 / C1),&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;clash&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(K4 / C2),&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;dispute&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(K3 / C2). The usual disclaimer applies: neither of the above tools takes into account lexical chunks, such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;a force to be reckoned with&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Advanced)&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;opened fire&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Intermediate), &lt;i&gt;set foot&lt;/i&gt; (both versions), whose meaning is opaque.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  492. &lt;br /&gt;
  493. Scroll down to see the accompanying &lt;b&gt;10-page teachers&#39; guide&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;full of ideas on how to use the quiz in class and exploit the language.&lt;br /&gt;
  494. &lt;br /&gt;
  495. As usual, in a few days I will be posting follow-up activities for language review.&lt;br /&gt;
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  497. &lt;br /&gt;
  498. &lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  499. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #990000;&quot;&gt;UPDATE (5 January 2020): click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2020/01/news-quiz-2019-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; for follow up activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  500. &lt;br /&gt;
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  502. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  503. &lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Happy New Year!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  504. &lt;/div&gt;
  505. &lt;h4&gt;
  506.  
  507. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  508. or &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BSx1THq6uN6AFP_P0Az3-AkZkctvXZPi/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;download as Word doc&lt;/a&gt;
  509.  
  510. &amp;nbsp;
  511.  
  512. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BSx1THq6uN6AFP_P0Az3-AkZkctvXZPi/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  513. &lt;br /&gt;
  514. &lt;br /&gt;
  515. &lt;h4&gt;
  516.  
  517. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate level with answers (+ Multiple choice version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  518. &lt;div&gt;
  519. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;or &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1itaqwlumPVVicgql133se245n4REKFKU/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;download as Word doc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  520. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1itaqwlumPVVicgql133se245n4REKFKU/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  521. &lt;br /&gt;
  522. &lt;h4&gt;
  523.  
  524. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Teachers&#39; notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  525. &lt;br /&gt;
  526. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DOhtc-wn1ruiPz8XNVqsp9O9XFtqbOp_/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  527. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/227065862200332790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-quiz-2019.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/227065862200332790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/227065862200332790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-quiz-2019.html' title='News Quiz 2019'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichChjSMKShe4156gIT0BbNEuV9FdR-7LbT-2nPkW_dNugKvfVlxwibqPwAPYQijibnWjUGc1TtjUnVcH303MJspoXznLNGztLdY92Y4ZYa8Sk6LmYHW69iYsZcGOiA99DYiwi1tw9DAIw/s72-c/49055188321_0a37dafb3b_c.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-3151248022711313066</id><published>2019-12-14T17:44:00.001+00:00</published><updated>2021-08-03T10:55:12.608+01:00</updated><title type='text'>10 paper-and-pencil activities using Quizlet</title><content type='html'>I first mentioned Quizlet in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/12/top-3-web-tools-of-2013.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;blog post in 2013&lt;/a&gt;. Over the past six years it has become a staple in many EFL/ESL classrooms. These days whenever I ask participants of my workshops to indicate by a show of hands whether they are familiar with Quizlet, almost every hand in the room goes up. That is with a rare exception of my recent session at TESOL Italy, where, to my utter surprise, none of the 10&amp;nbsp; or so participants had heard of this wonderful online tool. But even those who do actively use Quizlet are not always aware of the &#39;offline&#39; opportunities it affords. In this post I&#39;d like to share 10 &#39;offline&#39;&amp;nbsp; (i.e. paper-based) activities you can do in the classroom using your Quizlet sets.&lt;br /&gt;
  528. &lt;br /&gt;
  529. &lt;br /&gt;
  530. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  531. The activities below require printing Quizlet sets using various layouts - mostly small cards. At the moment of writing this, the Print function was nested under the More button (three dots).&lt;br /&gt;
  532. &lt;br /&gt;
  533. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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  535. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  536. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75VuWBLXJW7ANadVs8dfjjCN6xqmA6cbv1jkYkuUbkWlDlW0jlHyR7KdjRH6u9HdmUJzcVYXJUrDP0AXw3GiOLgS-34MKEybiMJWxUDGnhTHmQ86ccv74nn95WimbicTf5l4DY3c1AnAS/s1600/Quizlet+print+menu.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;489&quot; data-original-width=&quot;364&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75VuWBLXJW7ANadVs8dfjjCN6xqmA6cbv1jkYkuUbkWlDlW0jlHyR7KdjRH6u9HdmUJzcVYXJUrDP0AXw3GiOLgS-34MKEybiMJWxUDGnhTHmQ86ccv74nn95WimbicTf5l4DY3c1AnAS/s320/Quizlet+print+menu.png&quot; width=&quot;238&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  537. &lt;br /&gt;
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  539. &lt;h4&gt;
  540. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Printing instructions (for activities 1 - 7)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  541. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQY8LltKdeJQAAk5nkw14I-Mn2oZMubyHEf9_8AoPNMny_-Q9F6uNP8jXfwMkktLmvtIzWCINAEd-sbu-kZH7WFbba_K2p0zIWUuXExMnDTVw37McFouvfg8adqECqKV8cEtpLU2hLCtR/s1600/Quizlet+print+options.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;689&quot; data-original-width=&quot;449&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQY8LltKdeJQAAk5nkw14I-Mn2oZMubyHEf9_8AoPNMny_-Q9F6uNP8jXfwMkktLmvtIzWCINAEd-sbu-kZH7WFbba_K2p0zIWUuXExMnDTVw37McFouvfg8adqECqKV8cEtpLU2hLCtR/s200/Quizlet+print+options.png&quot; width=&quot;130&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In the More menu click on Print, then follow the following steps in the menu which will appear on the left (on the right of the screen you will see a preview):&lt;br /&gt;
  542. &lt;br /&gt;
  543. Step 1: Choose a layout - small&lt;br /&gt;
  544. Step 2: Customise your options - untick/uncheck Alphabetise; tick/check Double-side printing *&lt;br /&gt;
  545. Step 3: Open PDF.&lt;br /&gt;
  546. &lt;br /&gt;
  547. Quizlet will then generate a PDF file, which opens in a pop-up window. Clicking on Print will bring up the Print settings menu.&lt;br /&gt;
  548. &lt;br /&gt;
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  550. &lt;i&gt;* Although the double-sided option is selected, most of the activities below do not require a printer with duplex printing functionality. The double sided option merely allows you to print items &lt;/i&gt;(Quizlet: terms)&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;and example sentences &lt;/i&gt;(Quizlet: definitions)&lt;i&gt; on separate pages and save paper.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  554. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  555. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbS475FfTGVJR62GblmGTAtj06gCivJbr9TPRf0m8u9agrw_lmDdMdP0kv21LtV4LSFx7P5Y4UngSjCFvenR1GyM0CbxHY1e13PPM6RH351aDVOEv5WBcBtD-V5nrNcBIQsMPZ-VXmMV8w/s1600/quizlet+print+settings.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;709&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1065&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbS475FfTGVJR62GblmGTAtj06gCivJbr9TPRf0m8u9agrw_lmDdMdP0kv21LtV4LSFx7P5Y4UngSjCFvenR1GyM0CbxHY1e13PPM6RH351aDVOEv5WBcBtD-V5nrNcBIQsMPZ-VXmMV8w/s320/quizlet+print+settings.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  556. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;This is what the PDF preview looks like after &lt;br /&gt;
  557. you&#39;ve&amp;nbsp;selected all the options described above&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  558. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  559. &lt;br /&gt;
  560. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;LTR&quot; style=&quot;direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;&quot;&gt;
  561. &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;MsoTableGrid&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cccccc; border-collapse: collapse;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
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  563. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Useful tip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  564. The Small cards option will print 20 items on a page. That&#39;s why my Quizlet sets usually contain 20 items. Not only do they fit onto one page, it is a number that is manageable for learners because it gives them a sense of accomplishment and progress.&lt;/div&gt;
  565. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  566. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  567. &lt;/div&gt;
  568. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;LTR&quot; style=&quot;direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;&quot;&gt;
  569. &lt;/div&gt;
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  573. &lt;br /&gt;
  574. &lt;h3&gt;
  575. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;1. Match words with sentences + recall task&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  576. After printing the pages (two pages if you have 20 items) cut up the page with definitions / example sentences into 20 cards and leave the page with the target items (words, chunks) intact. Give each group of 3-4 students a set of 20 cards with definitions and a page with the target times. Ask them to match the two by putting the definitions / example sentences on top of the words. After they finish, and when the target words have been hidden under the sentence cards, ask students to recall the words.&lt;br /&gt;
  577. &lt;br /&gt;
  578. &lt;h3&gt;
  579. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;2. Match words with sentences + peer assessment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  580. For this activity you will need at least two Quizlet sets. The preparation is the same as in Activity 1: the page with sentences is cut up; the page with words is not. Alternatively, if you&#39;re using only one set (of 20 cards), cut up the page with words vertically in the middle and give 10 corresponding sentence cards (left or right) to each group of 3-4 students. Do not give out the words (i.e. answers) yet.&lt;br /&gt;
  581. Each group tries to complete the missing word/chunk in the sentence cards and writes their answer &lt;u&gt;on the back of the card&lt;/u&gt;, which is blank (preferably in pencil). As a next step, groups swap their cards and try to complete the gaps again, then flip the card over and see the answer suggested by the previous group. After that you can give out the sheet with words and get each group to check their answers and award points for each correct answer before returning the cards to the original group.&lt;br /&gt;
  582. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  583. Try it with this set:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/_r8bfj&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/_r8bfj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  584. &lt;br /&gt;
  585. &lt;h3&gt;
  586. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;3. Match words with sentences - 3 rounds of matching&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  587. Divide the class into several groups or pairs. The number of groups/pairs should be divisible by 3, i.e 3/6 groups. The activity is similar to Activity 2, but uses 3 Quizlet sets. Follow the procedure in Activity 2 for the first set with each group writing their answers on the back. After passing the cards on to a new group, each new group writes their answers on the front, i.e. they fill in the blanks in the gapped example sentence. Finally, the groups switch the cards again and a third group assesses peers in both groups by awarding points for correct answers on both sides of the cards.&lt;br /&gt;
  588. &lt;br /&gt;
  589. &lt;br /&gt;
  590. &lt;h3&gt;
  591. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;4. How many do you remember? + answers on the board&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  592. This would be more suitable for small classes (4-6) people or 1 on 1 lessons. You only need the cards with the sentences - cut up as in the previous activities. Give the cards to the group and ask them to sort them into two groups. The ones the know the answers to and the ones where they don&#39;t remember the words. Monitor and take note of the words they don&#39;t know. Then write up the correct answers on the board but throw in a couple of &#39;distracters&#39; and ask students to find the answer on the board. Do the same thing in the following lesson and see if the number of the words you write up on the board (i.e. the number of the answers students don&#39;t know) has decreased. Make sure that students don&#39;t write on the cards so they can be reused.&lt;br /&gt;
  593. &lt;br /&gt;
  594. &lt;br /&gt;
  595. &lt;h3&gt;
  596. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;5. Match sentences with sentences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  597. For this activity you will need a set with duplicate entries: the same items should appear twice with two different example sentences, like in this set: &lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/_6vougi&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/_6vougi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Students work in pairs/groups matching the sentences to each other (without seeing the answers). The activity highlights different ways of using the same word, and, in the case of polysemous words, can be used to show different meaning senses of the same word.&lt;br /&gt;
  598. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  599. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  600. &lt;br /&gt;
  601. &lt;h3&gt;
  602. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;6. Guess the word&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  603. For this activity print more than one set. Or you can combine your existing sets into a new one (use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.quizlet.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029638892-Combining-study-sets&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Combine feature&lt;/a&gt; in the More menu). See this set&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/_6wrku3&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/_6wrku3&lt;/a&gt;, which I created by combining 3-4 sets my group had covered. I had to tweak the word cards a bit to provide a bit more context - you can ignore what&#39;s written in the definitions (left over from the original sets) as you won&#39;t need this.&lt;br /&gt;
  604. Give each group of 3-4 students a stack of about 20 cards with words/chunks. They should be placed in the centre of the table face down. Students take turns picking up the cards and explaining the meaning to their partners without using the word itself - in the case of longer chunks they are not allowed to use the word &lt;b&gt;in bold&lt;/b&gt; (but can use other words). The student who guesses the word first gets to keep the card. Students take turns clockwise defining the items until all of them have been used up. The player with most cards at the end of the activity is the winner.&lt;br /&gt;
  605. But you can play another round or two, depending on how much time you have. Groups can swap cards and continue with a new pack.&lt;br /&gt;
  606. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  607. Try it with this set: &lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/_7pkxbq&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/_7pkxbq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  608. &lt;br /&gt;
  609. &lt;h3&gt;
  610. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;7. Put it in context&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  611. This is basically the same as Activity 9.7 in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/lexical-grammar&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lexical Grammar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (here&#39;s your free bonus😉) The set up is similar to 6 but you don&#39;t need to tweak the word cards in any way. Like in the previous activity, students - in turns - pick up cards, only in this activity they have to come up with example sentences for the target words. After all students in a group have had a go, up the ante a bit. Stop the students and explain that one sentence is not enough for you to assess their understanding of the target words. From now on they have two make two sentences for each item. Provide a model/example on the board:&lt;br /&gt;
  612. &lt;br /&gt;
  613. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  614. &lt;i&gt;Please stop &lt;b&gt;interrupting &lt;/b&gt;me. I really have to finish this essay.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  615. (the first sentence contains the target &lt;b&gt;item&lt;/b&gt;; the second sentence provides more context)&lt;br /&gt;
  616. &lt;i&gt;In the past a degree was all you needed to get a good job, but this is &lt;b&gt;no longer the case&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  617. (the first clause provides context; the second contains the target &lt;b&gt;item&lt;/b&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  618. Let students work through their stack of cards for as long as needed. Monitor making sure they use the target vocabulary appropriately.&lt;br /&gt;
  619. &lt;br /&gt;
  620. &lt;h4&gt;
  621. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Printing instructions for activity 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  622. For this next activity you should use a different print layout. Also, you will need at least 40 items so &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.quizlet.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029638892-Combining-study-sets&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;combine two sets&lt;/a&gt; if your sets are around 20 words as suggested above.&lt;br /&gt;
  623. Step 1: Choose layout: table&lt;br /&gt;
  624. Step 2: Customise your options -&amp;gt; tick/check Flip terms and definitions&lt;br /&gt;
  625. Print the PDF - you will need as many copies as the number of students in the class. Divide the copies into two equal piles.&lt;br /&gt;
  626. &lt;br /&gt;
  627. The first pile: Cut each page vertically in the middle. There should be about 20 example sentences with words on each half-page (the number of sentences that can fit will depend on how long the sentences are). The second pile: Cut each page vertically in the middle and also cut off the words (i.e. answers).&lt;br /&gt;
  628. &lt;br /&gt;
  629. &lt;br /&gt;
  630. &lt;h3&gt;
  631. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;8. Assess your peer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  632. Divide the class into pairs. Give Student A in each pair one half-page without the words and the other one with the words; give Student B the other half-pages.&lt;br /&gt;
  633. &lt;br /&gt;
  634. To put it diagrammatically, this is what each pair gets:&lt;br /&gt;
  635. &lt;br /&gt;
  636. Student A: left half-page without the words / right half-page with the words&lt;br /&gt;
  637. Student B: right half-page without the words / left half-page with the words&lt;br /&gt;
  638. &lt;br /&gt;
  639. Student A reads the sentences and provides the missing word. Student B acknowledges whether the answer is right. If Student A is struggling, Student B should give him/her clues, e.g. a synonym, the first letter of the word or another example sentence. Student B should also keep tally of how many gapped sentences Student B gets right. Then students in each pair switch roles and repeat the procedure with Student B &#39;testing&#39; Student A.&lt;br /&gt;
  640. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  641. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSfh2wbJxSxF9xqazbEWwN3JHLLO-BjbLrwl0iCQCGzdOeAxBfyCSWzx19Kd8aqUlqLhaWdeE3aQLKYn2Y1UxPLVs4aJKiHK3j9Jn0yfW_MCX3WsUpWgRWVSVS-wNZXfWwVpGNw0dzqMy/s1600/IMG_20190806_170626.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1533&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSfh2wbJxSxF9xqazbEWwN3JHLLO-BjbLrwl0iCQCGzdOeAxBfyCSWzx19Kd8aqUlqLhaWdeE3aQLKYn2Y1UxPLVs4aJKiHK3j9Jn0yfW_MCX3WsUpWgRWVSVS-wNZXfWwVpGNw0dzqMy/s320/IMG_20190806_170626.jpg&quot; width=&quot;306&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  642. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Students in pairs doing the peer assessment activity (Activity 8): &lt;br /&gt;
  643. student on the left is &#39;testing&#39; the student on the right&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  644. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  645. &lt;br /&gt;
  646. &lt;h4&gt;
  647. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Printing instructions for activities 9-10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  648. This requires a bit of fiddling but it&#39;s worth it, I promise! In the More menu (three dots), select Export. In the pop-up window that opens (see the screenshot below), select the third option &lt;b&gt;\n\n &lt;/b&gt;to adjust line spacing&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Between rows&lt;/b&gt; (the right column). Then type in or copy the same bit of code &lt;b&gt;\n\n&lt;/b&gt; in the left-hand column - &lt;b&gt;Between term and definition&lt;/b&gt;. Basically &lt;b&gt;\n\n&lt;/b&gt; is like pressing Enter on your keyboard twice. The result is double-spacing between your words and gapped sentences/definitions. As a matter of fact, you won&#39;t need the words - it&#39;s just easier to delete them when they are separated.&lt;br /&gt;
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  655. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  656. When you&#39;ve achieved the desired format - you can see the how the exported text will look in the window under the Copy text button - copy-paste the text into a Word document or Google doc. You can now delete all the words leaving only the sentences. Blow up the text to a relatively large size (e.g. font size 36) and make the document margins as narrow as possible. You should be able to squeeze four gapped sentences on to each page - see &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gm4H8uNhby0uh4RSlXs2VX1Y0rGujgYh/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;THIS EXAMPLE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;based on this combined Quizlet set:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/_6bbv5f&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;quizlet.com/_6bbv5f&lt;/a&gt;. Print the document and cut it into strips with sentences.&lt;/div&gt;
  657. &lt;br /&gt;
  658. &lt;h3&gt;
  659. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;9. Cloze on the board&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  660. You will need about 30-40 items - depending on the size of your whiteboard - so combine sets if necessary. Write the target words (&#39;word bank&#39;) on the board with a board marker. Space them out so the words cover the whole whiteboard leaving some room under each. Put the sentence strips on a desk or chair in front of the board. Put a ball of Blu Tack next to them or, if you arrive sufficiently early before the lesson, stick a small piece of Blu Tack on the board under each word.&lt;br /&gt;
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  662. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  663. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4WfkEtkG55mRnuJWr7Gqbc5r72xjPH5L7xK4AdN-1MqOJlr67cf6meSZ3LMKpjXrUtKLhiFHzmH68rLQtJ4wSDWLjPEh1mLsslemgBkJxj2mlADJFn2wkCVHUBhkgLYcIiE83sZBzkDXe/s1600/IMG_20190414_174145.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1200&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4WfkEtkG55mRnuJWr7Gqbc5r72xjPH5L7xK4AdN-1MqOJlr67cf6meSZ3LMKpjXrUtKLhiFHzmH68rLQtJ4wSDWLjPEh1mLsslemgBkJxj2mlADJFn2wkCVHUBhkgLYcIiE83sZBzkDXe/s320/IMG_20190414_174145.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  664. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Students sticking sentences on the board (Activity 9)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  665. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  666. On a cue (I usually play music) students come to the board, pick up gapped sentences and stick them under the missing words. They should continue until all the sentences have been matched with the words. By the end of the activity the whole board is covered with sentence strips - as you can see in the photo, I have quite a large board. Before bringing the activity to a close, you may have to correct wrong matches and go over the items that posed difficulty.&lt;br /&gt;
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  668. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  669. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyv-3Ug2_zIvMh8xSlKAVc-SyKGe01NLWZvyyhNWP6xu2UoPi0EY1sJahPMQpuVDEPV0WOrOyRa9rct6gFw0TvKEStOtwDuoo1fJBdYEF43DJt2Y3FPFsI4vDMlKp2bJG2OX91Qcj2Qp7s/s1600/IMG_20190414_174759.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1200&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyv-3Ug2_zIvMh8xSlKAVc-SyKGe01NLWZvyyhNWP6xu2UoPi0EY1sJahPMQpuVDEPV0WOrOyRa9rct6gFw0TvKEStOtwDuoo1fJBdYEF43DJt2Y3FPFsI4vDMlKp2bJG2OX91Qcj2Qp7s/s320/IMG_20190414_174759.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  670. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The whiteboard at the end of the Cloze on the board activity&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  671. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  672. &lt;br /&gt;
  673. &lt;br /&gt;
  674. &lt;h3&gt;
  675. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;10. Closed circle cloze&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  676. Don&#39;t throw away the sentence strips from Activity 9! You can use them for this revision/regrouping activity, which I learned from one of the first teachers I worked with, Ruthie, who is sadly no longer with us.&lt;br /&gt;
  677. &lt;br /&gt;
  678. You will need as many strips with gapped sentences as the number of students in class. Divide the sentence strips into piles of three. In each pile of three, write (with a pen or marker) the word missing in the first sentence on the back of the second sentence strip, the missing word from the second sentence on the back of the third sentence strip and the missing word from the third sentence on the back of the first strip - to close the circle as it were. In the activity students will have to do the same - &#39;close the circle&#39; in order to form a group of three.&lt;br /&gt;
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  680. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpK43ihQTnCxg_bfCR5BI1eRKBb5Zi23i2oajt5k20wYvtUA4YA-FqXSmB5L-hVEz6tyPO0pNOqYmvEYQEHTmiE8b_6q7tPL2bCOCVHhKwjEI9Sa1gq7nUKrvQHZGxeRav9uTPaIpbdmsZ/s1600/cloze+form+groups+of+3.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;484&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1033&quot; height=&quot;186&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpK43ihQTnCxg_bfCR5BI1eRKBb5Zi23i2oajt5k20wYvtUA4YA-FqXSmB5L-hVEz6tyPO0pNOqYmvEYQEHTmiE8b_6q7tPL2bCOCVHhKwjEI9Sa1gq7nUKrvQHZGxeRav9uTPaIpbdmsZ/s400/cloze+form+groups+of+3.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  682. Distribute the sentence strips among students. Tell them not to show them to each other yet. The aim is to form groups of three&amp;nbsp; On cue, students stand up and mingle around the room holding their sentence strips up so that others can see the sentences (they themselves face the back of the strip with a word written on it). Each student has to find a partner who has a sentence that matches the word written on their strip of paper and be found by another student who has a word that matches the sentence printed on the front of the card. In other words, Student A looks for Student B, who looks for Student C, who needs Student A to close the circle. Once the circle is closed they can sit down; others continue looking and matching until all the class ends up in groups of three.&lt;br /&gt;
  683. &lt;br /&gt;
  684. The activity can also work the other way around. Students hold up the strips of paper so that others can see the words (which you should then write with a marker), but not the sentences. Also note that you might have to join in to make up the numbers so that the total&amp;nbsp;is divisible by three, or one group can consist of 4 people, e.g. a class of 16 students can be grouped as follows: 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 4&lt;br /&gt;
  685. &lt;br /&gt;
  686. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  687. &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;For more activities involving movement around the room, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2014/10/classroom-walls-vocabulary.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;THIS POST&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  689. As you have seen from the activities described above and the Quizlet sets I&#39;ve shared, my Quizlet sets tend to consist of words and gapped sentences (with occasional glosses). I rarely use definitions because they don&#39;t provide context or &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;co-text&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for the target items, which I believe are essential to the meaning.&lt;br /&gt;
  690. &lt;br /&gt;
  691. If you try out one of the above activities with your students, leave a comment below to let me know how it went.&lt;br /&gt;
  692. &lt;br /&gt;
  693. And one final point - save your printed sets so you can reuse them and save paper!&lt;br /&gt;
  694. &lt;br /&gt;
  695. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/3151248022711313066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/12/10-paper-activities-quizlet.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3151248022711313066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3151248022711313066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/12/10-paper-activities-quizlet.html' title='10 paper-and-pencil activities using Quizlet'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75VuWBLXJW7ANadVs8dfjjCN6xqmA6cbv1jkYkuUbkWlDlW0jlHyR7KdjRH6u9HdmUJzcVYXJUrDP0AXw3GiOLgS-34MKEybiMJWxUDGnhTHmQ86ccv74nn95WimbicTf5l4DY3c1AnAS/s72-c/Quizlet+print+menu.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-3555022630423179104</id><published>2019-03-12T20:50:00.001+00:00</published><updated>2019-03-12T21:39:14.305+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogging"/><title type='text'>Still blogging - but elsewhere</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  696. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNHCqp2ZW0LEApQrQF5ND_ogTWdPU2rqiKWbISgqb19Eu2E3NriW2YC-ZBlrCcs0ZpsDU0QM95TdevKsiNIJgnZv23UVVdCEDyvPe04CMBvur9R-ZS-T1v1QUKcNfhCCpP9zV845BfE4u/s1600/IMG_20180921_132833.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1200&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNHCqp2ZW0LEApQrQF5ND_ogTWdPU2rqiKWbISgqb19Eu2E3NriW2YC-ZBlrCcs0ZpsDU0QM95TdevKsiNIJgnZv23UVVdCEDyvPe04CMBvur9R-ZS-T1v1QUKcNfhCCpP9zV845BfE4u/s320/IMG_20180921_132833.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  697. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;CUP booth at IATEFL Poland in Wroclaw (September 2018)&lt;br /&gt;
  698. Can you spot my book?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  699. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  700. This is just a quick update. I know it seems like I haven&#39;t been blogging much since my book came out, except for the traditional&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/12/news-quiz-2018.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;News Quiz&lt;/a&gt;. But, in fact, I&#39;ve written a few pieces that have appeared elsewhere in the past few months, mostly on the Cambridge University Press (CUP)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;World of Better Learning&lt;/a&gt; blog. Here are the links to my latest posts:&lt;br /&gt;
  701. &lt;br /&gt;
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  703. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  704. &lt;h4&gt;
  705. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/06/13/reviewing-chunks-through-prompted-recall/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Reviewing Chunks through Prompted Recall&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h4&gt;
  706. Here you can see a sample activity from&lt;i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/lexical-grammar/lexical-grammar-paperback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lexical Grammar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - a fairly easy, low-prep activity I often use in class.&lt;br /&gt;
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  709. &lt;h4&gt;
  710. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/06/20/teaching-business-english-chunks/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Teaching Business English Chunks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  711. Another sample activity from Lexical Grammar, in which I focus on verb+adjective combinations which would not normally be identified as collocations, but which nevertheless occur very often together, for example:&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  712. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  713. &lt;i&gt;promote economic ... &lt;/i&gt;(growth/development)&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  714. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  715. &lt;i&gt;require further... &lt;/i&gt;(information / assistance)&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  716. P.S. I thoroughly searched COCA for such two word strings to find the most frequent ones.&lt;br /&gt;
  717. &lt;br /&gt;
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  719. &lt;h4&gt;
  720. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/12/19/on-the-road-with-leo-selivan/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;On the Road with Leo Selivan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  721. I would never agree to be a conference blogger mainly because of the fear of committing to writing a certain number of reports from a conference. Said that, I like sometimes to summarise conference sessions that really struck a chord with me. That&#39;s what I do in this post - I highlight one session from each of these three conferences: ATECR (Czech Republic), IATEFL Poland and TESOL France.&lt;br /&gt;
  722. &lt;br /&gt;
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  724. &lt;h4&gt;
  725. &lt;a href=&quot;https://mawsig.iatefl.org/the-what-about-webinars-qa-leo-selivan/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;What about writing vocabulary activities? webinar Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  726. In February I gave the final webinar in the &lt;i&gt;What about..? &lt;/i&gt;series organised by the IATEFL MaW SIG (Materials Writers Special Interest Group). I was asked to write up this because there were many questions from the webinar attendees and many points that I didn&#39;t have time to cover - partly because I&#39;d overplanned. It came out to be a bit longer than other, similar webinar follow-up posts on the MaW blog but I answered all the questions quite extensively, I think! See for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;
  727. &lt;br /&gt;
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  729. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/3555022630423179104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/03/still-blogging-but-elsewhere.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3555022630423179104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/3555022630423179104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/03/still-blogging-but-elsewhere.html' title='Still blogging - but elsewhere'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNHCqp2ZW0LEApQrQF5ND_ogTWdPU2rqiKWbISgqb19Eu2E3NriW2YC-ZBlrCcs0ZpsDU0QM95TdevKsiNIJgnZv23UVVdCEDyvPe04CMBvur9R-ZS-T1v1QUKcNfhCCpP9zV845BfE4u/s72-c/IMG_20180921_132833.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-1803999966663678288</id><published>2019-01-07T11:29:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2020-01-05T16:30:24.696+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recycling"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2018 - Follow Up</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;
  730. &lt;i&gt;Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2018&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  731. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  732. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gNukxeOOUlX2Q9Uh3J4cfClW2AV2hgHCAEUuTtAeR2KnzD02EVRrXgiyZkeEyh7ueCOgwU-srwTVnB3tg5BHM2UlRNlSgSvlXkHWmcsY_I9QCPwl35XYkroDPQb0pCL3cH0IazLntOLt/s1600/3.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;256&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gNukxeOOUlX2Q9Uh3J4cfClW2AV2hgHCAEUuTtAeR2KnzD02EVRrXgiyZkeEyh7ueCOgwU-srwTVnB3tg5BHM2UlRNlSgSvlXkHWmcsY_I9QCPwl35XYkroDPQb0pCL3cH0IazLntOLt/s320/3.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  733. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Image credits: John Bauld&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flic.kr/p/McsiQi&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;flic.kr/p/McsiQi&lt;/a&gt; [CC BY 2.0]; &lt;br /&gt;
  734. Alisdare Hickson &lt;a href=&quot;http://flic.kr/p/24W89b5&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;flic.kr/p/24W89b5&lt;/a&gt; [CC BY-SA 2.0]; &lt;br /&gt;
  735. NASA [PD image]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  736. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  737. I hope you and - your students - liked the end-of-year news quiz, which I posted last week. As always, it is followed up by lots of activities aimed at reviewing and consolidating the language from the quiz, which I share below.&lt;br /&gt;
  738. &lt;br /&gt;
  739. If you haven&#39;t seen the news quiz, it&#39;s not to late - click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/12/news-quiz-2018.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  740. &lt;br /&gt;
  741. You can preview the activities below or download them in Word format and edit/adapt them as you wish. The key (answers) and teachers&#39; notes are provided at the end of each level.
  742.  
  743. &lt;br /&gt;
  744. &lt;br /&gt;
  745. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE: a Quizlet set for advanced level: &lt;a href=&quot;http://quizlet.com/_5wm0we&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;quizlet.com/_5wm0we&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  746. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  747. &lt;br /&gt;
  748. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  749. &lt;h3&gt;
  750. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Downloads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  751. &lt;h4&gt;
  752. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate (B1+/B2) with Answer Key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  753. click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPBMCCNRM9mi17W5wr4bH3X0UuD3ZNXx/view&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  754. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  755. &lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPBMCCNRM9mi17W5wr4bH3X0UuD3ZNXx/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  756.  
  757.  
  758. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  759. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  760. &lt;br /&gt;
  761. &lt;h4&gt;
  762. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced (C1+) with Answer Key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  763. &lt;br /&gt;
  764. click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/17lzG-mwvQ0earilwJjChvbxAl3CCLYoE/view&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  765. &lt;br /&gt;
  766. &amp;nbsp;
  767.  
  768. &lt;iframe height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/17lzG-mwvQ0earilwJjChvbxAl3CCLYoE/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/1803999966663678288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/01/news-quiz-2018-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/1803999966663678288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/1803999966663678288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/01/news-quiz-2018-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2018 - Follow Up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gNukxeOOUlX2Q9Uh3J4cfClW2AV2hgHCAEUuTtAeR2KnzD02EVRrXgiyZkeEyh7ueCOgwU-srwTVnB3tg5BHM2UlRNlSgSvlXkHWmcsY_I9QCPwl35XYkroDPQb0pCL3cH0IazLntOLt/s72-c/3.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-2974546067804021994</id><published>2018-12-29T21:59:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2019-01-07T14:22:36.279+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chunks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2018</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  769. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a data-flickr-embed=&quot;true&quot; href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/157666315@N04/46148699521/in/photolist-2dj19z8-2d99hRo-cmGjZj-2dnZ4XG-RzTiFs-2aeip9h-2c4Xpjv-2cuCiP9-2aEFcgW-2drgrED-2aEFKbY-86Zfr8-Pxwgw6-2dhCz1c-2dAzo6z-2dkuCYv-RaUCZ9-BrRZid-2c52KG5-RaX3Pu-aHWbF8-2doTxLx-2bKEwrD-2dfXzqq-2cu2Jum-2dfX6TS-2ayTJ8C-2dksS42-2bB8jwg-RcFqf5-2cetFdj-2ayTx7j-2dDPJ3U-fL3z22-2ceusdE-2aQbMey-2aQbMtS-2aqE3R5-2dAKdme-2bU6QaB-2dfZc4h-2d4acgJ-2dkuAMB-RcF1Nf-RcF5SY-PzknfR-RcEc3L-2ayUbxb-RcEhXS-2bT2g6V&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; title=&quot;gilets jaune drapeau bbr sur les champs elysees nov 2018&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;gilets jaune drapeau bbr sur les champs elysees nov 2018&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; src=&quot;https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4815/46148699521_10fe3cc2de_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  770. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photo by KRIS AUS67 on &lt;a href=&quot;https://flic.kr/p/2dj19z8&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[CC BY 2.0]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  771. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  772. &lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  773.  
  774. Although I haven&#39;t been a very active blogger this year - but check my posts &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/?s=selivan&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;on the CUP blog&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;the traditional end-of-year news quiz is here as always! Focusing on key news stories from 2018 I tried to keep a balance between politics, showbiz and sports. And as usual, it&#39;s packed with lots of lexical chunks and other vocabulary items for your students to explore.&lt;br /&gt;
  775. &lt;br /&gt;
  776. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  777. The quiz is available in two levels:&lt;br /&gt;
  778. &lt;br /&gt;
  779. - Intermediate (B1+/B2-) including a multiple choice version&lt;br /&gt;
  780. - Advanced (B2/C1 or higher)&lt;br /&gt;
  781. &lt;br /&gt;
  782. Both versions can be downloaded in Word format if you want to adapt them.&lt;br /&gt;
  783. &lt;br /&gt;
  784. The Intermediate level quiz has been rigorously checked using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.englishprofile.org/the-cefr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;English Vocabulary Profile&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lextutor.ca/vp/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VocabProfiler&lt;/a&gt; on LexTutor. The former helped ascertain that the quiz includes vocabulary appropriate for the B1-B2 levels (on the CEFR scale) and the latter that the majority of the words (96%) are in the top 3000 most frequent words in English (K1-K3). There are only 11 words (tokens) that fall outside the K1-K3 frequency bands. Nine words are in the K4 band (3001-4000), such as &lt;i&gt;deteriorate&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;erupt -&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;it is estimated that B2 level students should know 4000 words. And only two words are beyond the K4 band: &lt;i&gt;icon &lt;/i&gt;(K5) and &lt;i&gt;marijuana &lt;/i&gt;(K7), which, being cognates, will be familiar to speakers of most European languages.&lt;br /&gt;
  785. &lt;br /&gt;
  786. An important caveat: the above mentioned tools supply data concerning individual words, not lexical chunks of which there are many in both versions of the quiz, for example&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;in high spirits&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;came out in force.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  787. &lt;br /&gt;
  788. The quiz is accompanied by a&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;10-page teachers&#39; guide&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(scroll down) filled with ideas on how to use it in class and exploit the language from the quiz.&lt;br /&gt;
  789. &lt;br /&gt;
  790. As usual, follow-up activities for vocabulary review and practice will be posted in a few days. Check back in the New Year.&lt;br /&gt;
  791. &lt;br /&gt;
  792. &lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  793. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;UPDATE: Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2019/01/news-quiz-2018-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; for vocabulary review activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  794. &lt;br /&gt;
  795. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  796. &lt;br /&gt;
  797. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  798. &lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Happy New Year!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  799. &lt;br /&gt;
  800. &lt;h4&gt;
  801.  
  802. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced level with answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  803. or &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/14NxyRRt26izbSBVBIS2Oric4FVthB4AI/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;download as Word doc&lt;/a&gt;
  804.  
  805. &amp;nbsp;
  806.  
  807.  
  808.  
  809.  
  810.  
  811.  
  812.  
  813. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wpe5O3Bw2a5hYzzQqSpFctwxCjULrA4v/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  814. &lt;br /&gt;
  815. &lt;br /&gt;
  816. &lt;h4&gt;
  817.  
  818. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate level with answers (+ Multiple choice version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  819. &lt;div&gt;
  820. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;or &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRtNapnV5AXmPHK4YnZo-BQT2fJn8_h1/view&quot;&gt;download as Word doc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  821. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RY4pAb51KTS9OmIV_82Y-ICcMsdi3TM-/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  822. &lt;br /&gt;
  823. &lt;h4&gt;
  824.  
  825. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Teachers&#39; notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  826. &lt;br /&gt;
  827. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0sT1qwqDnHngWDeFIBLMcxBqUbtzTIF/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  828. &lt;br /&gt;
  829. &lt;br /&gt;
  830. &lt;h4&gt;
  831. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #990000;&quot;&gt;UPDATE (2.01.2019) !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  832. &lt;h4&gt;
  833. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;News Quiz with highlighted lexical chunks (advanced)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  834. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot; uacqunwyaineheight=&quot;18.2px&quot; uailfdtuw=&quot;true&quot; uansbkghitespace=&quot;normal&quot; uauwckqi=&quot;13&quot; uaydrypw=&quot;background-color: #FFFF00;&quot;&gt;Adjective + Noun / Noun + Noun collocations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  835. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: lawngreen;&quot; uacqunwyaineheight=&quot;18.2px&quot; uailfdtuw=&quot;true&quot; uansbkghitespace=&quot;normal&quot; uauwckqi=&quot;13&quot; uaydrypw=&quot;background-color: #7CFC00;&quot;&gt;Collocations with Verbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  836. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: cyan;&quot; uacqunwyaineheight=&quot;18.2px&quot; uailfdtuw=&quot;true&quot; uansbkghitespace=&quot;normal&quot; uauwckqi=&quot;13&quot; uaydrypw=&quot;background-color: #00FFFF;&quot;&gt;Other chunks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  837. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gYBktDb-WFCcTsR8J3THSkhHJPXKx3BB/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  839. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/2974546067804021994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/12/news-quiz-2018.html#comment-form' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/2974546067804021994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/2974546067804021994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/12/news-quiz-2018.html' title='News Quiz 2018'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-4640325439467802035</id><published>2018-08-30T20:34:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2018-09-02T15:37:23.617+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Grammar"/><title type='text'>Present Simple or Hard Present ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  840. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHxfKpEgLtNnoueiPxSggYZiCu7jcwDW0JE6lHYamQCgQwf9NepoVaNDXHQk7yj5SYUgm6O1-ivxqJT6cebDA9l0sF8rg4Co7bv8zcDZYd-lJhpOGvLCEhFCYfZcl9yY5gNBmESTl29H6/s1600/6711547747_1be1a4cf19_z.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;1&quot; data-original-height=&quot;480&quot; data-original-width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHxfKpEgLtNnoueiPxSggYZiCu7jcwDW0JE6lHYamQCgQwf9NepoVaNDXHQk7yj5SYUgm6O1-ivxqJT6cebDA9l0sF8rg4Co7bv8zcDZYd-lJhpOGvLCEhFCYfZcl9yY5gNBmESTl29H6/s200/6711547747_1be1a4cf19_z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  841. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&#39;The sun rises in the east&#39; - &lt;br /&gt;
  842. a commonly used example of the Present Simple&lt;br /&gt;
  843. Photo by @CliveSir via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ELTpics&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on Flickr&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  844. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  845. In a recent discussion in one of the Facebook groups (this is what seems to prompt my occasional posts these days), the Present Simple was referred to as &#39;one of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;hardest &lt;/b&gt;tenses for students to get&#39;. This made me wonder whether the Present Simple, contrary to what its name suggests,&amp;nbsp;is indeed not so simple, or it is just another one of those teacher-induced neuroses. Let&#39;s see why there&#39;s so much ado about the most common, unmarked English tense.&lt;br /&gt;
  846. &lt;br /&gt;
  847. &lt;br /&gt;
  848. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  849. &lt;h4&gt;
  850. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Form and Function&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  851. Structurally, the Present Simple is indeed &lt;b&gt;simple&lt;/b&gt;: Subject + Verb. Granted, there is that annoying little 3rd person singular &lt;i&gt;-s&lt;/i&gt; ending that complicates the matters, but research has convincingly shown that it&#39;s acquired invariably late - both in L1 and L2 speakers (see Goldschneider &amp;amp; DeKeyser, 2001 for meta-analysis).&lt;br /&gt;
  852. &lt;br /&gt;
  853. As far as the function is concerned, things are less straightforward. Pedagogical grammars list the&amp;nbsp; following cases when the Present Simple is used:&lt;br /&gt;
  854. &lt;ul&gt;
  855. &lt;li&gt;for habits&lt;/li&gt;
  856. &lt;li&gt;for repeated actions&lt;/li&gt;
  857. &lt;li&gt;for present states&lt;/li&gt;
  858. &lt;li&gt;for instructions / directions&lt;/li&gt;
  859. &lt;li&gt;for fixed arrangements&lt;/li&gt;
  860. &lt;/ul&gt;
  861. Two uses that often come up in grammar books are particularly dubious:&lt;br /&gt;
  862. &lt;ul&gt;
  863. &lt;li&gt;with time clauses (which is not even a use, but rather a grammatical pattern or &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2015/10/colligation-bottom-up-approach-grammar.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;colligation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
  864. &lt;li&gt;with Stative verbs (this was discussed in my&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-state-of-stative-verbs.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;earlier post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
  865. &lt;/ul&gt;
  866. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  867. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqhknEDNVfSrS3tmY2WqFMK7PxZL5CeWKrlFlXjYPNr2SzTBhRA4QEQOXnkJC7rnL2LEa6XKbkKiXbFxA1_vlsj0vwAfcTHKiyMwkjRxfQxrEt_MhhXQOp0yCQ2jHjw1cYiKUZqM5-YcV/s1600/9602145664_df2249a3ee_o.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;364&quot; data-original-width=&quot;492&quot; height=&quot;236&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqhknEDNVfSrS3tmY2WqFMK7PxZL5CeWKrlFlXjYPNr2SzTBhRA4QEQOXnkJC7rnL2LEa6XKbkKiXbFxA1_vlsj0vwAfcTHKiyMwkjRxfQxrEt_MhhXQOp0yCQ2jHjw1cYiKUZqM5-YcV/s320/9602145664_df2249a3ee_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  868. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&quot;Puppies are cute&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
  869. another common example of the Present Simple&lt;br /&gt;
  870. Photo by Daria Breus-Samolada via &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ELTpics&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  871. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  872. &lt;br /&gt;
  873. Grammar books that offer more in-depth analyses (those for advanced levels) or the ones written for teachers break it down even further. For example, Martin Parrot&#39;s &lt;i&gt;Grammar for Language Teachers&lt;/i&gt; suggests the following additional uses:&lt;br /&gt;
  874. &lt;ul&gt;
  875. &lt;li&gt;with Perception verbs&lt;/li&gt;
  876. &lt;li&gt;running commentary (e.g. football matches)&lt;/li&gt;
  877. &lt;li&gt;past narratives (aka Historic Present)&lt;/li&gt;
  878. &lt;li&gt;with Declarative verbs&lt;/li&gt;
  879. &lt;/ul&gt;
  880. &lt;br /&gt;
  881. &lt;br /&gt;
  882. He does acknowledge, however, that the main uses are for repeated events and general / timeless facts. In contrast to this &#39;itemised&#39; approach, Michael Lewis in &lt;i&gt;The English Verb&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;claims that there is no need to posit separate uses or functions of the Present Simple: it has essentially &lt;u&gt;one&lt;/u&gt; defining characteristic.&lt;br /&gt;
  883. &lt;br /&gt;
  884. &lt;h4&gt;
  885. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;In search of primary characteristics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  886. &lt;div&gt;
  887. Lewis&#39;s &lt;i&gt;The English Verb&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(1986) is based on the contention that all verb forms in English have clearly identifiable semantic features, i.e. they have a meaning. The book sets out to establish a unifying meaning for each verb form which covers all uses. Lewis treats the Present Simple as a &lt;b&gt;pure &lt;/b&gt;tense in which a speaker is not interested in the temporal quality of the event: &quot;Not only is the present simple not about Present Time, but it is not about time at all.&quot; (p. 66). The action or event in the Present Simple is conceptualized as a simple, objective fact or universal truth.&lt;/div&gt;
  888. &lt;div&gt;
  889. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  890. He admits that it is not easy to find one word to describe or capture the primary semantic characteristics of the Present Simple and suggests the following descriptions &quot;single undivided entity&quot;,&amp;nbsp; &quot;a simple whole&quot;, &quot;totality&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
  891. &lt;br /&gt;
  892. As esoteric as this explanation may sound, it is helpful because it shows why in English we wouldn&#39;t normally say *&lt;i&gt;How long do you know him? &lt;/i&gt;It&#39;s not a pure fact; it encodes temporal reference. Or, to take Lewis&#39;s own example (p. 67), it is not possible to say &lt;i&gt;*If she marries him I eat my hat&lt;/i&gt;. The second part of the statement is the conclusion or consequence, and not a statement of objective fact. A pure tense form is therefore not possible.&lt;br /&gt;
  893. &lt;br /&gt;
  894. &lt;h4&gt;
  895. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;A matter of fact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  896. Lewis&#39;s all-encompassing explanation also subsumes Present Simple for timetabled events - a use that is often presented as a separate entry. For example, in Murphy&#39;s classic &lt;i&gt;English Grammar in Use,&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;after being dealt with in the first&amp;nbsp; section (Past and Present), Present Simple makes a reappearance in the Future section where it is dealt with as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
  897. &lt;br /&gt;
  898. &quot;We use the present simple when we talk about timetables, programmes etc&quot; (p. 38) as well as for people if their plans are &quot;fixed like a timetable&quot; (&lt;i&gt;ibid.&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
  899. &lt;br /&gt;
  900. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  901. &lt;i&gt;The flight leaves at 7 pm and lands in Paris at 8 am local time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  902. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  903. &lt;i&gt;He retires at the end of the year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  904. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  905. &lt;i&gt;What time do you get off work tomorrow?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  906. &lt;br /&gt;
  907. Explaining this use, Leech and Svartvik in &lt;i&gt;A Communicative Grammar of English&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(2013) state that these events are seen as absolutely certain and unalterable so that the speaker &quot;puts aside the doubt one naturally feels about the future&quot; (p. 79). Compare, for example:&lt;br /&gt;
  908. &lt;br /&gt;
  909. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  910. &lt;i&gt;What time do we land?&lt;/i&gt; (e.g. according to the timetable - objective)&lt;br /&gt;
  911. &lt;i&gt;What time will we land?&lt;/i&gt; (e.g. now that they&#39;ve announced a delay - what&#39;s your subjective opinion/prediction?)&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  912. &lt;br /&gt;
  913. In other words, we see the first instance&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;as a matter of fact&lt;/b&gt;. Lewis&#39;s explanation suffices, and no special provision for a separate future use is necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
  914. &lt;br /&gt;
  915. &lt;h4&gt;
  916. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Misleading label&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  917. So why is there so much fuss about Present Simple that it has to make an appearance in Unit 1 of every coursebook at any level? One the one hand, it&#39;s the simplest in terms of structure (S + V) and it&#39;s the most commonly used, &#39;default&#39; tense in English. On the other hand, the label &#39;Present Simple&#39; might be a bit of a misnomer because the &#39;true&#39; present tense is, in fact, the Present Progressive/Continuous. &lt;i&gt;I&#39;m writing this blog. You&#39;re reading it &lt;b&gt;now&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Should the Present Simple be relabelled as &#39;Hard Present&#39; then, but not because it&#39;s supposedly hard for learners but because it refers to hard, solid and timeless facts?&lt;br /&gt;
  918. &lt;br /&gt;
  919. &lt;br /&gt;
  920. &lt;h4&gt;
  921. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;References&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  922. Goldschneider, J. M. &amp;amp; DeKeyser, R. (2001). Explaining the ‘‘natural order of L2 morpheme acquisition’’ in English: A meta-analysis of multiple determinants. &lt;i&gt;Language Learning 51&lt;/i&gt;(1): 1–50&lt;br /&gt;
  923. &lt;br /&gt;
  924. Leech, G., &amp;amp; Svartvik, J. (2013). &lt;i&gt;A communicative grammar of English&lt;/i&gt;. London: Routledge.&lt;br /&gt;
  925. &lt;br /&gt;
  926. Lewis, M. (1986). &lt;i&gt;The English verb: An exploration of structure and meaning&lt;/i&gt;. Hove: Language teaching publications.&lt;br /&gt;
  927. &lt;br /&gt;
  928. Murphy, R. (2003). &lt;i&gt;English grammar in use: A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students (with answers)&lt;/i&gt;. Cambridge:
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  930. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  931. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW6gJp4fwbyDomHlPc13O_mjfYS2Ge3NGzvU15v-PGWMRW_k5F7oNd2ilhKmeyY0X5pZiKkrNJNxfSMPA9ISKPvh39zVMU4CD3cu87ogQ0tm_WqU7oHag1YmZoDHih-88vhK4-7F3hPuk/s1600/10508321036_c21e5682c9_m+%25281%2529.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW6gJp4fwbyDomHlPc13O_mjfYS2Ge3NGzvU15v-PGWMRW_k5F7oNd2ilhKmeyY0X5pZiKkrNJNxfSMPA9ISKPvh39zVMU4CD3cu87ogQ0tm_WqU7oHag1YmZoDHih-88vhK4-7F3hPuk/s400/10508321036_c21e5682c9_m+%25281%2529.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  932. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Photo by Hana Ticha&lt;br /&gt;
  933. via &lt;a href=&quot;https://flic.kr/p/h1zTJU&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;eltpics&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  934. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  935. A friend of mine has mastered English - which is attested by a CPE certificate - by looking up a word and carefully studying examples in a dictionary every day before going to bed. It was before the days of online dictionaries, so he was using a copy of the excellent &lt;i&gt;Longman Dictionary for Advanced Learners&lt;/i&gt;. In the 1990s learners&#39; dictionaries, such as &lt;i&gt;Longman&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;Oxford Advanced Learner&#39;s Dictionary (OALD),&lt;/i&gt; started breaking away from the native speaker dictionary format (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.com/&quot;&gt;dictionary.com&lt;/a&gt;) by introducing two innovations. First, they started providing definitions using a controlled vocabulary - in the case of Longman it was the Longman Defining Vocabulary (LDV), a carefully graded list of the 2000 most frequent words in English, similar to West&#39;s General Service List (GSL). Second, they shifted the emphasis from purely defining meanings to highlighting usage through carefully chosen examples.&lt;br /&gt;
  936. &lt;br /&gt;
  937. As dictionary publishers moved increasingly towards online platforms in the 2000s - and some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;discontinued the printed version&lt;/a&gt;, for example Macmillan - learners&#39; dictionaries made further strides towards improving learner experience. Today&#39;s online learners&#39; dictionaries (see the list in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.co.il/p/essential-lexical-tools.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Essential lexical tools&lt;/a&gt;) not only offer natural examples and highlight &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;co-text&lt;/a&gt;, their entries come complete with collocation boxes, grammar information and common error warnings. All this makes a good learner’s dictionary an essential, indeed indispensable, learning tool. Yet, despite their obvious benefits, I find, much to my regret, that online dictionaries are underused by learners and teachers alike. Here are some activities to get your students using learner&#39;s dictionaries and hopefully starting to appreciate their value.&lt;br /&gt;
  938. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  939. &lt;h3&gt;
  940. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;1 Dependent prepositions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  941. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Pre-Intermediate and up (B1+)&lt;br /&gt;
  942. &lt;br /&gt;
  943. Give students a list of adjectives, for example:&lt;br /&gt;
  944. &lt;br /&gt;
  945. &lt;i&gt;fascinated&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  946. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  947. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTWGlCTDWYRgNQiOiNbkk5h7b6oF9tfj6Jses6vXdHT2Gd2w5v98Qppyn4pqx2fw5Bi5NarcODrXi67dj2kuWMzsbE7g7EoYvnUXIshwVfss5-BeQE8AMOLrRqlXj6V8141fkfoOEP70U/s1600/fascinated_Macmillan.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;243&quot; data-original-width=&quot;422&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTWGlCTDWYRgNQiOiNbkk5h7b6oF9tfj6Jses6vXdHT2Gd2w5v98Qppyn4pqx2fw5Bi5NarcODrXi67dj2kuWMzsbE7g7EoYvnUXIshwVfss5-BeQE8AMOLrRqlXj6V8141fkfoOEP70U/s320/fascinated_Macmillan.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  948. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;from Macmillan Dictionary&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  949. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  950. &lt;i&gt;aware&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  951. &lt;i&gt;obsessed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  952. &lt;i&gt;annoyed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  953. &lt;i&gt;supportive&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  954. &lt;i&gt;scared&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  955. &lt;i&gt;suspicious&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  956. &lt;br /&gt;
  957. and ask them to write an example with each. To do that, they have to look up the adjectives in an online learners&#39; dictionary to find the right dependent prepositions, e.g.&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;fascinated &lt;b&gt;by/with&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  958. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  959. &lt;/div&gt;
  960. &lt;br /&gt;
  961. &lt;h4&gt;
  962. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  963. &lt;ul&gt;
  964. &lt;li&gt;The same can be done with verbs and dependent prepositions, such as &lt;i&gt;accuse of, succeed in, prevent from &lt;/i&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;
  965. &lt;li&gt;Dependent prepositions can also be looked up on netspeak - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2012/05/lexical-priming.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  966. &lt;/ul&gt;
  967. &lt;br /&gt;
  968. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  969. &lt;/div&gt;
  970. &lt;br /&gt;
  971. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  972. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  973. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  974. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  975. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  976. &lt;/div&gt;
  977. &lt;h3&gt;
  978. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;2 Look left, look right&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  979. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;any (depending on the choice of words). The example below is for Intermediate (B1/B2)&lt;br /&gt;
  980. &lt;br /&gt;
  981. Write a list of nouns in the middle of the the board and, if students are copying it down, make sure they write them in the middle of a page, as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
  982. &lt;br /&gt;
  983. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  984. &lt;i&gt;(a) ban&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  985. &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(a) complaint&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  986. &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(a) difficulty&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  987. &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;awareness&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  988. &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;research&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  989. &lt;i&gt;solution&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  990. &lt;br /&gt;
  991. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  992. &amp;nbsp;Students use a learner&#39;s dictionary to look up examples and collocations, specifically to see what comes before (verb) &amp;amp; what goes
  993. after (e.g. preposition), and record it correspondingly to the left and to the right of the key noun, for example:&lt;/div&gt;
  994. &lt;/div&gt;
  995. &lt;br /&gt;
  996. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  997. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;impose &lt;/b&gt;a ban &lt;b&gt;on&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  998. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  999. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;run into &lt;/b&gt;difficulties &lt;b&gt;with&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1000. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #1d2129; line-height: 17.12px;&quot;&gt;As a follow up, students can be asked to use these in context / create examples.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1001. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1002. &lt;/div&gt;
  1003. &lt;br /&gt;
  1004. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1005. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1006. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1007. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1009. &lt;/div&gt;
  1010. &lt;h3&gt;
  1011. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;3 Correct or incorrect?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1012. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Upper Intermediate and above (B2+)&lt;br /&gt;
  1013. &lt;br /&gt;
  1014. Provide a list of sentences some of which contain mistakes with word grammar, e.g. wrong dependent prepositions (see above) or incorrect pattern (e.g. an infinitive instead of a gerund).&lt;br /&gt;
  1015. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1016. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1017. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The company have succeeded increasing their profits by 25% this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1018. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Why are you angry at me?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1019. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;We finally finished to pack at midnight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1020. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;One hour session with a therapist cured her of her phobia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1021. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;We didn&#39;t have any difficulty to find the place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1022. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1023. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Students should &#39;proofread&#39; the sentences and correct the mistakes with the help of a dictionary. To do that, they have to first identify &#39;problematic&#39; words, e.g. &lt;i&gt;succeeded, angry, finished&lt;/i&gt; etc. in the examples above; however, you may want to underline error-prone words for weaker students, as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1024. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1025. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;We finally &lt;u&gt;finished to pack&lt;/u&gt; at midnight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1026. &lt;i&gt;Why are you &lt;u&gt;angry at&lt;/u&gt; me?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1027. &lt;div&gt;
  1028. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1029. &lt;br /&gt;
  1030. &lt;h4&gt;
  1031. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1032. &lt;ul&gt;
  1033. &lt;li&gt;The activity heightens learners&#39; awareness of word grammar and encourages them to look up (partially) known words in a dictionary to verify how they are used&lt;/li&gt;
  1034. &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The sentences for the activity can be drawn from students&#39; essays and other writing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  1035. &lt;/ul&gt;
  1036. &lt;br /&gt;
  1037. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1038. &lt;h4&gt;
  1039. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Correct answers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1040. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1041. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt; The company have &lt;strike&gt;succeeded increasing&lt;/strike&gt; their profits by 25% this year.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;symbol&amp;quot;; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;®&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;succeeded in increasing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1042. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;wingdings&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.6667px;&quot;&gt;ü&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Why are you angry at me?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1043. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; We finally&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;strike style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;finished to pack&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;i&gt; at midnight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;symbol&amp;quot;; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;®&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;finished packing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1044. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;wingdings&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.6667px;&quot;&gt;ü&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;One hour session with a therapist cured her of her phobia.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;wingdings&amp;quot;; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;ü&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(note that the noun &lt;i&gt;cure &lt;/i&gt;goes with&lt;i&gt; for: find a &lt;b&gt;cure for&lt;/b&gt;...)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1045. &lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;x&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;We didn&#39;t have any &lt;strike&gt;difficulty to find&lt;/strike&gt; the place.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;symbol&amp;quot;; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;®&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;difficulty finding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1046. &lt;br /&gt;
  1047. &lt;br /&gt;
  1048. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1049. &lt;/div&gt;
  1050. &lt;br /&gt;
  1051. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1052. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1053. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1054. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1055. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1056. &lt;/div&gt;
  1057. &lt;/div&gt;
  1058. &lt;h3&gt;
  1059. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;4 Old words, new meanings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1060. &lt;b style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level: &lt;/b&gt;Intermediate and up (B1+),&amp;nbsp;but can be adapted for lower levels&lt;br /&gt;
  1061. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  1062. &lt;br /&gt;
  1063. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1064. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Give students a few words they are already familiar with, and ask them to look up the words in a learner&#39;s dictionary and find one new / interesting / unusual way of using them:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1065. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1066. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  1067. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYaJeqYE4CbckbKhfr3dbX_vvyRdmWivYEY3-HJL8f6nDZQlQfaL_X0IxcWJHELmvSMp3I-jAJJfQivt-Ztibd6uqcRmZeUoWxPb0ENH4HnLJoirhosXQOHsqaZDPCJwF1zWMMSWF5u3I/s1600/rough_Cambridge_Dict.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;417&quot; data-original-width=&quot;363&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYaJeqYE4CbckbKhfr3dbX_vvyRdmWivYEY3-HJL8f6nDZQlQfaL_X0IxcWJHELmvSMp3I-jAJJfQivt-Ztibd6uqcRmZeUoWxPb0ENH4HnLJoirhosXQOHsqaZDPCJwF1zWMMSWF5u3I/s200/rough_Cambridge_Dict.png&quot; width=&quot;173&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1068. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;from Cambridge Learner&#39;s Dictionary&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1069. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1070. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1071. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;sense &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;(n.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1072. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1073. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;nasty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1074. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;(to) cast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1075. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1076. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;(to) pick up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1077. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1078. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;rough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1079. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;affair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1080. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;fair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1081. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1082. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1083. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1084. &lt;h4 style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1085. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1086. &lt;div&gt;
  1087. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The instructions call for finding &lt;u&gt;a new way of using the word&lt;/u&gt;, i.e. it doesn&#39;t have to be a new meaning sense as such. For example, students might be familiar with the word &lt;i&gt;rumour (I heard a rumour), &lt;/i&gt;not knowing that we can say: &lt;i&gt;Rumour has it...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1088. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1089. &lt;br /&gt;
  1090. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1091. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1092. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1093. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1094. &lt;h3&gt;
  1095. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;5 Old words, new collocations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1096. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1097. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Similarly to the previous activity, students can be asked to find a new collocation for known words. Many learners&#39; dictionaries list important collocations in a separate box. Try these words with Upper Intermediate students (B2+):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1098. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1099. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br class=&quot;kix-line-break&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1100. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1101. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  1102. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghidu0uhijpaWElcD9ZYr17jp61uM8ARs4fl0WUdoVEemmUDhNQPwXnoL44cNWrTPu4m8heJM-cA5BTl_xO2v2MWHHm4ILkTr4VU51TEhpEvpG5FAN7MY21Goc5MjWPGmxL4vWHBQnriM/s1600/Oxford_Learners_undergo.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;405&quot; data-original-width=&quot;512&quot; height=&quot;252&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghidu0uhijpaWElcD9ZYr17jp61uM8ARs4fl0WUdoVEemmUDhNQPwXnoL44cNWrTPu4m8heJM-cA5BTl_xO2v2MWHHm4ILkTr4VU51TEhpEvpG5FAN7MY21Goc5MjWPGmxL4vWHBQnriM/s320/Oxford_Learners_undergo.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1103. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;from Oxford Learner&#39;s Dictionary&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1104. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1105. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;severe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1106. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1107. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;(to) launch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1108. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1109. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;(to) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;perform &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br class=&quot;kix-line-break&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1110. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-105ab886-884e-244a-0522-9285d63923b1&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;mild&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1111. &lt;i&gt;harsh&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1112. &lt;i&gt;case&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1113. &lt;i&gt;undergo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1114. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;&quot;&gt;
  1115. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;concern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;(n.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1116. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1117. &lt;span style=&quot;color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;At the end, each student shares with the class one new useful collocation they have discovered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1118. &lt;/div&gt;
  1119. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1120. &lt;br /&gt;
  1121. &lt;br /&gt;
  1122. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1123. &lt;/div&gt;
  1124. &lt;br /&gt;
  1125. &lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  1126. &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1127. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1128. &lt;/div&gt;
  1129. &lt;br /&gt;
  1130. &lt;br /&gt;
  1131. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1132. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;6 Narrow use&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1133. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1134. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Upper Intermediate / Advanced (B2/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1135. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1136. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The less frequent the word, the more likely it is to occur in specific contexts. Get students to look up&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;these words in at least three learners&#39; dictionaries and &lt;u&gt;compare the examples&lt;/u&gt; they&#39;ve found:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1137. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1138. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1139. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1140. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;sprawling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1141. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1142. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1143. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifT7NH6OsENGANz8uRhlShUl3geCJ9Wl7n3CtaxMF8OnWNti2Oe0wfKbb6LszIsfr2cfnBRYwZzs7_QJGax-aX9Qk2UOTn8Zd9bIkflxvSUYfJY0XMjj1McHK7l6_XJEncOQpjUdZGtvsp/s1600/LDOCE_brisk_.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;297&quot; data-original-width=&quot;568&quot; height=&quot;123&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifT7NH6OsENGANz8uRhlShUl3geCJ9Wl7n3CtaxMF8OnWNti2Oe0wfKbb6LszIsfr2cfnBRYwZzs7_QJGax-aX9Qk2UOTn8Zd9bIkflxvSUYfJY0XMjj1McHK7l6_XJEncOQpjUdZGtvsp/s200/LDOCE_brisk_.png&quot; width=&quot;242&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1144. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;skyline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1145. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1146. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;deprived&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1147. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1148. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;(to) annihilate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1149. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;brisk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1150. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1151. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;treaty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1152. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1153. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1154. &lt;h4 style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1155. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1156. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1157. &lt;span style=&quot;white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;The activity shows that examples found in different dictionaries are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;surprisingly similar, because many (particularly less frequent) words occur in predictable combinations and in narrow contexts and, therefore, should be learned in context. Look up &quot;brisk&quot; and you&#39;ll see that it always collocates with &lt;i&gt;walk&lt;/i&gt;, while &quot;sprawling&quot; is almost always used to describe cities. I&#39;ll let you find out the others by yourselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1158. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1159. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1160. &lt;br /&gt;
  1161. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1162. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1163. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1164. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1165. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1166. &lt;/div&gt;
  1167. &lt;/div&gt;
  1168. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1169. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;7 Call my bluff / Balderdash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1170. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1171. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Upper Intermediate / Advanced (B2/C1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1172. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Give each groups of students 3 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;unknown words&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;. They have to look them up in a dictionary and find their definitions, then add two fictitious definitions of their own (or the other way around: first write what they think the word means, then look up the correct definition). As a next step, other groups or the whole class look at three definitions for each item and try to guess which one is correct and which ones are fake. For example,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1173. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1174. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1175. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1176. &lt;i&gt;fatuous&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1177. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1178. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1179. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1180. &lt;ul&gt;
  1181. &lt;li&gt;slightly fat&lt;/li&gt;
  1182. &lt;li&gt;arrogant and thinking too much of oneself&lt;/li&gt;
  1183. &lt;li&gt;stupid, not correct, not carefully thought about (real definition taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fatuous&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cambridge Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
  1184. &lt;/ul&gt;
  1185. &lt;/div&gt;
  1186. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1187. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1188. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1189. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;HINT : try to choose words that look like other words (e.g. fatuous/fat)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1190. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1191. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1192. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1193. &lt;h4&gt;
  1194. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1195. &lt;/div&gt;
  1196. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1197. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Admittedly, it is not the most efficient way of teaching new vocabulary (making up definitions take up a lot of time), but it&#39;s a good activity to get students writing. Of course, there is also a danger here: students might end up remembering one of the fake definitions; however, very often clever fake definitions can serve as mnemonic devices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1198. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  1199. &lt;br /&gt;
  1200. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1201. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1202. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1203. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1204. &lt;h3&gt;
  1205. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;8 Absurd stories&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1206. &lt;/div&gt;
  1207. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: start;&quot;&gt;
  1208. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1209. &lt;b style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Level:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Intermediate and up (B2)&lt;/div&gt;
  1210. &lt;/div&gt;
  1211. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: start;&quot;&gt;
  1212. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1213. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1214. &lt;/div&gt;
  1215. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start;&quot;&gt;
  1216. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1217. &lt;span style=&quot;font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Give groups of students a list of 6-7 words and have them look up each and copy out one example. They then pass their examples to another group who should make up a story using the given examples (sentences). They have to use all the sentences in the set.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1218. &lt;/div&gt;
  1219. &lt;br /&gt;
  1220. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1221. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/severe&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Overcrowding in secondary schools is pretty severe.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1222. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1223. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/launch&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The company hopes to launch the new drug by next October.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  1224. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1225. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mild_1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Use a soap that is mild on the skin.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  1226. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1227. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/undergo&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Some children undergo a complete transformation when they become teenagers.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  1228. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1229. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/perform&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The children perform two plays each school year.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1230. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1231. &lt;a href=&quot;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conclusion&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;In conclusion, I would like to thank our guest speaker.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1232. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  1233. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1234. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1235. Adapted from &lt;i&gt;Dictionary Activities&lt;/i&gt; by Cindy Leaney (CUP, 2007)&lt;/div&gt;
  1236. &lt;/div&gt;
  1237. &lt;div&gt;
  1238. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1239. &lt;i&gt;--------------------------&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1240. &lt;/div&gt;
  1241. &lt;br /&gt;
  1242. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  1243. &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1244. Do you use dictionaries in class? What do you or your students do with them? Do share in the comments below.&lt;br /&gt;
  1245. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/8990365210752761616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/04/dictionary-activities.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/8990365210752761616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/8990365210752761616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/04/dictionary-activities.html' title='8 dictionary activities'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW6gJp4fwbyDomHlPc13O_mjfYS2Ge3NGzvU15v-PGWMRW_k5F7oNd2ilhKmeyY0X5pZiKkrNJNxfSMPA9ISKPvh39zVMU4CD3cu87ogQ0tm_WqU7oHag1YmZoDHih-88vhK4-7F3hPuk/s72-c/10508321036_c21e5682c9_m+%25281%2529.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-5596521315395525603</id><published>2018-01-06T14:48:00.003+00:00</published><updated>2018-12-29T16:53:45.098+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Collocations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lexis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quiz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recycling"/><title type='text'>News Quiz 2017 - Follow Up</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;
  1246. &lt;i&gt;Activities for reviewing the language from News Quiz 2017&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
  1247. &lt;div&gt;
  1248. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1249. &lt;div&gt;
  1250. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  1251. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa5bKQzL0xyvBxu4UqJZeKrO_ula9M6GX4XSHpIYlcdJrXYR-gxTxpYjUK3wSD5T1gT6NCoVQXoFWZg_l1npZtJKh1GW88P9WXb4U7o_tRZ2UFjyV1IfIv5vy2bfrv5og3dbAOvjdqR0u/s1600/news+quiz+collage.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;453&quot; data-original-width=&quot;734&quot; height=&quot;197&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa5bKQzL0xyvBxu4UqJZeKrO_ula9M6GX4XSHpIYlcdJrXYR-gxTxpYjUK3wSD5T1gT6NCoVQXoFWZg_l1npZtJKh1GW88P9WXb4U7o_tRZ2UFjyV1IfIv5vy2bfrv5og3dbAOvjdqR0u/s320/news+quiz+collage.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1252. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1253. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;Collage made with
  1254. photos by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/54617/photos&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.kremlin.ru&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;[CC BY 4.0],&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1255. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1256. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Beyoncé
  1257. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/p/BP-rXUGBPJa/?hl=en&amp;amp;taken-by=beyonce&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@beyonce&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;on &lt;/span&gt;Instagram&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;
  1258. [fair use],&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1259. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  1260. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Alex Fau on Flickr &lt;a href=&quot;https://flic.kr/p/qKyoQ2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://flic.kr/p/qKyoQ2&lt;/a&gt;
  1261. [CC BY 2.0]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1262. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  1263. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  1264. &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;I hope you enjoyed the traditional end-of-year news quiz I posted&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;last week&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;As promised, here&#39;s a follow up: lots of activities aimed at reviewing and practising vocabulary (and a bit of grammar) from the quiz. If you haven&#39;t seen the news quiz, click&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.co.il/2017/12/news-quiz-2017.html&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1265. &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1266. You can preview the activities below or download them in Word format and edit/adapt them as you wish. This year, the key (answers) and teachers&#39; notes are provided at the end of each level - not as a separate file.&lt;br /&gt;
  1267. &lt;br /&gt;
  1268. For a suggested sequence of activities, see last year&#39;s News Quiz Follow Up - click &lt;a href=&quot;http://leoxicon.blogspot.co.il/2017/01/news-quiz-2016-follow-up.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1269. &lt;br /&gt;
  1270. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: Vocabulary from the quiz on Quizlet:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2017/&quot;&gt;https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2017/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1271. &lt;br /&gt;
  1272. &lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1273. &lt;br /&gt;
  1274. &lt;h3&gt;
  1275. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Downloads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1276. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Advanced level (with answer key)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1277. click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kwUVHpPCAN8SyIzMoC4voJLMsQsGqWTR/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  1278. &lt;div&gt;
  1279. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  1280. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DIjQmzgUmSp1YkJeNxBClZRNPMdRd1Bl/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1281. &lt;br /&gt;
  1282. &lt;br /&gt;
  1283. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;Intermediate level (with answer key)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  1284. click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0FYr_QRLxP0N_xvHqjcdxR1ha2E1Tai/view?usp=sharing&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download Word doc or preview below:&lt;br /&gt;
  1285. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  1286. &lt;iframe height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t83ut5etwy4_Swxa2hpFfefvbn1Kcunu/preview&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
  1287. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
  1288. &lt;br /&gt;
  1289. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/feeds/5596521315395525603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/01/news-quiz-2017-follow-up.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/5596521315395525603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5759462792103754770/posts/default/5596521315395525603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2018/01/news-quiz-2017-follow-up.html' title='News Quiz 2017 - Follow Up'/><author><name>Leo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8arrr_8fFAV7XMu3wv14Nwpi76Abl5WptmaZXRf9hXknf5KWX9JeMlYM_U7-qFtgx42AY7xrt1DZxnII43PLlZ8cMJFj68W97fSTlbgJVP9M-VPhlAOOcO9lqnsPAQ/s220/bday_cropped.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa5bKQzL0xyvBxu4UqJZeKrO_ula9M6GX4XSHpIYlcdJrXYR-gxTxpYjUK3wSD5T1gT6NCoVQXoFWZg_l1npZtJKh1GW88P9WXb4U7o_tRZ2UFjyV1IfIv5vy2bfrv5og3dbAOvjdqR0u/s72-c/news+quiz+collage.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>

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