Monday, June 21, 2010

Videos, quizzes, transcripts, and notes

Below is a sample video-based listening comprehension quiz drawn from the Real Canadian Songbook. After listening to the song, and taking the quiz, you can check your answers against the transcript, and read the notes to find out more about "culture, grammar, slang, or pronunciation" (ESL Video Quiz, Quiz Instructions, sidebar).



This quiz is in the Low Intermediate category. If you'd like something less or more challenging, try quizzes in other categories ranging from Beginning to High Intermediate. On the ESL Video :: Free ESL/EFL Video Activities for English Students website, there also are different kinds of music and other kinds of videos to choose from, for example:


I can hardly wait to go back for more!
[120 words]

1 comment:

  1. I've put a link to the ESL Video ... Activities website in the Course Links list in the sidebar. So even after this post slips over the horizon from the the Writing Studio Blog Home page, you'll be able to find and follow the link easily.

    If you enjoy trying those video-based activities, from time to time, you may wish to add that link to a similar list of favorite and frequently visited sites in your own blog sidebars. Moreover, if you find any of the ESL Video ... Activities especially well suited to your listening abilities and tastes, and want to recommend them to your classmates and peers, I suggest that you do two things:

    1. Embed them in individual posts on your own blogs, where followers, friends, and other visitors can find and try them. Use the iframe code from the ESL Video website (narrowed to fit your template, if necessary) to embed those activities in your posts; then

    2. Come back here and post recommendations in brief comments on this post, a) explaining what you enjoyed most about those video-based activities, and b) including short titles linked to your favorites. Examples in HTML Tips...: Link recipes, Same window, on the LTD Project Wiki, show how to encode links for comments.

    If you have trouble with either embedding in posts, or linking in comments, please ask classmates or peers, computer center assistants, or your instructor for help.

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