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| Activity Type: Cloze (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student reads a text and types missing words into blanks. There may or may not be clues as to what the missing words are, and there may or may not be accompanying audio. This activity differs from "fill in the blank" in that a cloze has a coherent text
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| Activity Type: Correct or Incorrect (edit activity type) Example URL: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/capitals.htm |
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| Description: Students decide whether words in a text are correctly or incorrectly capitalized (or not).
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| Activity Type: Crossword puzzle (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: This could be a traditional crossword puzzle, where there is a complete grid of letters/spaces, or a criss-cross puzzle, where the words intersect only in a few places.
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| Activity Type: Dictation (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student listens to an audio file and types exactly what s/he heard. If a paragraph of text with blanks is given on the screen and audio is added as support, activity should be called "cloze" rather than "dictation."
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| Activity Type: Drag and drop (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student moves words/phrases/pictures around the screen with the mouse and has to drop them in the correct location. If the activity has students putting words in the correct order to make a complete sentence, it should be called "scrambled sentences" rath
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| Activity Type: Fill in the blank (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student reads sentences and types the correct form of a word in a blank. Usually there is some sort of clue as to what word to use (e.g., student is given the simple form of a verb and has to conjugate it correctly. This activity differs from the "cloze"
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| Activity Type: Find and correct error (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student reads a sentence/phrase with an error and must find and correct the error. The student types the correct sentence/phrase.
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| Activity Type: Flashcard (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.gsu.edu/%7Eeslhpb/aegweb/exercises/x15/x15-5.htm |
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| Description: This type of activity acts like a flashcard--students see one item on the screen and have to think of the correct response (the meaning, what tense it is, etc.). Then the student can click a button to "flip" the card and see the answer. Then the student
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| Activity Type: Game show (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: This could be any type of game show/quiz show format. For example, Jeopardy or Who wants to be a Millionaire.
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| Activity Type: Hangman (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.manythings.org/hmf/hm-verb2.html |
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| Description: This is a word game in which the student is told the number of letters in a word/sentence, and then guesses 1 letter at a time to fill in the blanks. For incorrect guesses, a figure on a gallows is drawn. Student tries to complete the word/sentence correctly before the entire gallows figure is complete.
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| Activity Type: Identify grammar (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/sif/Tutorials/Grammar/Preamble_Passives/Passive_menu/pass1.htm |
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| Description: In this activity, students are asked find and/or identify examples of a particular grammatical structure. For example, students might read a sentence and indicate what tense the verb is in. Or, students might read a paragraph and identify all instances
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| Activity Type: Matching (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student has to match each item to a correct answer. Matching exercises are often set up in columns, where the student matches an item from the first column with the correct item in the second column.
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| Activity Type: Miscellaneous games (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: This could be any type of game that does not appear elsewhere in the list of activity types.
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| Activity Type: Mixed (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-preper/tests?test2 |
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| Description: An activity webpage that contains a mix of several different types of exercises.
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| Activity Type: Multiple choice (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student chooses the correct answer from a list of possibilities. Sometimes the options are listed on the screen with buttons next to them, and sometimes options are written in a drop-down list. The items can take many formats: it might be the correct word
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| Activity Type: Ordering (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.heinle.com/esl_d/templates/resources/1413006507_gic3/quiz/Q10-two/Q10-two.html |
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| Description: Student sequences statements/words/phrases in chronological order. The order might be based on logical meaning of the items, or it might be in response to a text or audio segment. Typically, student responds by typing the corrrect number next to each it
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| Activity Type: Printable worksheet (edit activity type) Example URL: http://linguapress.bravepages.com/inter/harrypot.htm |
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| Description: Any type of activity where an activity is presented on the screen, but really needs to be printed to be used (i.e., there is no way to type responses on page). Also, this type of activity doesn't usually give correct/suggested answers (as opposed to the "Think and Check" activity, which does give answers.
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| Activity Type: Scrambled sentences (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student looks at words listed in a random order and has to put them back into the correct order to form a sentence. Scrambled sentence activities can take several formats: sometimes they're "drag-and-drop," where the words are dragged around the screen wi
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| Activity Type: Scrambled words (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student looks at letters listed in a random order and has to put them back into the correct order to form a word or short phrase. Scrambled words activities can take several formats: sometimes they're "drag-and-drop," where the letters are dragged around
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| Activity Type: Short Answer (edit activity type) Example URL: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/mass2.htm |
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| Description: Students give a short (one or a few words) answer to a question about grammar or content information. This is different from "fill in the blank" in that here students are answering questions, whereas in fill in the blank, students type the answer in the
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| Activity Type: Submit answers to instructor (edit activity type) Example URL: http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~allenq/netgrammar/Units/Unit_15/a101c15_501000.html |
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| Description: This activity could be any kind of exercise where the student does not get any feedback and does not get to see the correct answers. Instead, the student has the opportunity to email his/her answers to his/her instructor (by typing in an email address).
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| Activity Type: Think and check (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student reads the item on the screen and has to think of the correct answer. There is no place on the screen to type the answer. Instead, student can click a button or use a drop-down list to see the correct answer(s) listed and has to mentally compare th
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| Activity Type: True or false (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student chooses correct answer from two possibilities, which are yes/no, right/wrong, true/false, etc. The possibilities might be listed on the screen with buttons next to them or could be written in a drop-down list.
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| Activity Type: Type sentence (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student reads a question or a prompt and types a complete sentence to answer it. This might include sentence transformation activities (e.g., change a positive sentence to a negative one). This activity is different from "fill in the blank" in that here s
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| Activity Type: View animation (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/tobepasq.htm |
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| Description: Student watches an animation in order to learn some information.
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| Activity Type: View information (edit activity type) Example URL: |
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| Description: Student reads text/charts/figures on a page in order to learn some information.
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| Activity Type: Word search (edit activity type) Example URL: http://www.johnsesl.com/wordsearch/advfre/advfre.shtml |
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| Description: In a word search, there is a grid filled with letters. The student has to search among the letters to find target words. Letters forming a word appear in a straight line in the grid, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and either forwards or backwards.
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The Virtual Grammar Lab was created by Daryl L. Beres with the support of a Century College Presidential Innovation Grant. Many thanks to all of the ESOL instructors and students at Century who have helped with the ongoing development of this site.