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Printable crosswords with images or text hints, crossword puzzles to print for kids. Games for the language classroom: Who wants to be a millionaire. So, back to gaming here on the ‘Teach them English’ blog!

Games for the language classroom: Who wants to be a millionaire

Having summed up everything I want to say about the theory behind the use of games in my best-selling e-book ‘Using games in the Language Classroom‘ (by which I mean I’m not going to go into great detail about the how and the why of using games in this post; please click on the link to download the book – it’s free!) , I feel compelled to follow it up with a series of posts look at specific games. Consequently, I’m going to do just that over the course of a few blog posts during the course of the next couple of months (whilst also continuing my series of posts in which I re-imagine the classic grammar activities of the ELT world). Let me continue this series with another old favorite of mine… Teachers Easy Guide to Creating Quiz Shows on Google Drive. January 3, 2015 Flippity is a powerful web tool that you can use with Google Spreadsheets to perform a variety of tasks.

Teachers Easy Guide to Creating Quiz Shows on Google Drive

In the last post we published here we talked about how to use Flippity to create Flashcards and we visually demonstrated how teachers can go about creating their own flashcards using this tool. Today, we are sharing with you another great functionality provided by Flippity. Printable crosswords with images or text hints, crossword puzzles to print for kids. Quiz Revolution - Most Popular Quiz Maker, Make a Quiz or Survey, Create a Fast Quiz or Survey.

Enhance your Website to Retain Visitors Longer From quizzes and surveys, to tutorials and training or selling, unflattened addictive content created with QuizRevolution generates, on average, over 10 minutes of sticky user engagement which translates into the kind of meaningful interactions—conversions and leads—that websites need to achieve their goals.

Quiz Revolution - Most Popular Quiz Maker, Make a Quiz or Survey, Create a Fast Quiz or Survey

Once you have created your quiz or survey you can also publish it to Facebook. And soon to come, customized Mobile Apps. Make a quiz or survey about anything - in minutes. With our easy to use wizard, you can make your own quiz or survey app with your very own extensive customization and loads of unique cool features. Printable crosswords with images or text hints, crossword puzzles to print for kids. 99 Top Tools for Online Teaching. The proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other forms of online education has changed the landscape of guided learning for both students and teachers.

99 Top Tools for Online Teaching

Professors who once stood in front of classrooms filled with dozens of students now stand in front of webcams in front of thousands or tens of thousands of logged-in users. Grading papers, scoring tests, and giving personalized feedback are all totally different pursuits in an online environment, and technology companies are rushing to build the tools that make online learning easier, more effective, and more enjoyable for teachers and their students. Videos, slideshows, games, and interactive group activities are all part of the online teacher’s toolbelt, and when a teacher is as savvy with technology as the students, amazing things can happen in an online classroom.

Printable crosswords with images or text hints, crossword puzzles to print for kids. Crossword Puzzle Maker. You must have an OLD browser. The old crossword maker doesn't allow all of the new features like cool fonts, adding images, shadows, special colors, and much more coming in the furture like saving, and being playable online. You can upgrade your browser to IE 9+ or better yet, get the Google Chrome browser and enjoy all of those great features.

Not convinced? You can go to the old version by clicking choosing it below. 2 reasons crosswords will not generate: 1. 1. Take the following example word list: "home, cat, dog". A slightly different impossible list: "home", "dog", "lizard" - all 3 have letters that they share! When you add a bunch of words, the chance for it being an impossible can increase (depending on many factors). 2. Teachers Easy Guide to Creating Quiz Shows on Google Drive. Games for the language classroom: Who wants to be a millionaire. Connect Fours - Quiz Template from ClassTools.net.

You will see a wall of 16 clues. You need to group them into 4 rows of 4 connected items. Simply click four cards to identify a group. You score 1 point for each group found within 2.5 minutes. You have unlimited guesses for the first two groups. After completing 2 groups, you have 3 chances to create the final 2 groups. After arranging all 4 groups (or when time runs out) the correct groups are shown.

This quiz is based on, but is not affiliated with, the 'connect wall' element in the BBC quiz show 'Only Connect' George Red White Apples +1 Point? Blue John Bananas Ringo +1 Point? Pears Ireland Wales Oranges England Green Paul Scotland.