Quizzes

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”

Nancy Willard

Socrates use to make his students getting interested on a topic by answering questions. Asking questions is the only way to find the truth. I strongly endorse this view as the majority of the teachers does. On the web there are thousand sites for quizzes. I have tried many of them but here there are two quite useful in language learning:

BBC is one of my favourite site for authentic material. The learning English pages are extremely useful. There are many games that you can use in the classroom such a crosswords and beat the keeper(It's fun!). BBC's quizzes could be extremely useful in teaching idioms or colloquial expressions. Try it!

 
One of the largest quiz databases in the Web. You can find some really good quizzes of general knowledge and some of them , belive me, are really challenging! Quizzes come both in HTML and Flash form.
I really enjoyed a quiz about what is sarcasm!(For those of you that find it difficult to teach abstract concepts).  One drawback of this site is the advertisements(sometimes there are pop-up windows as well).

Hot potatoes: Creating exersices is easier than baking spuds!

What's this?
It's an authoring tool to create your own exercises. Basically it is a programme you can download here and install it to your computer.

Why to use it?
To create on-line quizzes for the classroom of course. Quizzes are fun and capture learners' interest.


How to use it?

Hmmm... This might take some time just to get used to the interface. To get an idea start watching tutorial videos like this one below or go to website's tutorial list here



Limitations

• The same old good six typical exercises you will find in books.
• It is time consuming to create an exercise(10 items took me half an hour-but then maybe it's because that's just me)

Enjoy your spuds!