Age of Globalization MOOC (University of Texas at Austin with edX)

Language activities

1. Scrambled Sentences exercises create an exercise Android app

The words of sentences are scrambled and students must sort them into their original order.

This activity helps you study sentence structure by providing you with genuine text and allowing you to select suitable materials to practice on.

Type: Individual

Instructions: Put the bold words in the correct order by drag-drop them into the correct position.
2. Word Guessing exercises create an exercise Android app

Students enter words in the gaps, based on the context within a given article, individually or collaboratively.

This activity helps improve your vocabulary and sentence structure and your communication skills.

Type: Individual or Group collaboration

Instructions: Click on the gap and type in a word. Click on the light bulb icon (if any) for help.
3. Completing Collocations exercises create an exercise Android app

Learners enter words in the blanks to complete accurate multi-word combinations, also known as collocations.

This activity helps to improve your understanding of how native speakers and writers of the language you are studying combine words, also known as collocations.

Type: Individual

Instructions: Enter the missing words into the blanks.
4. Scrambled Paragraphs exercises create an exercise Android app

The paragraphs of a document are scrambled and students must sort them into their original order.

This activity helps to improve your understanding of paragraph structure, using authentic texts for you to practice on.

Type: Individual

Instructions: Put the paragraphs in the correct order by dragging and dropping them into the correct position. Click on the ‘Check Answer’ button at any time during the activity to see which paragraphs are in the correct order.
5. Split Sentences exercises create an exercise Android app

A sentence is split in half and students must match the halves together.

This activity helps you study sentence structure.

Type: Individual

Instructions: Reconnect the sentence halves by dragging and dropping them into the correct position. Click on the ‘Check Answer’ button at any time during the activity to see which sentences have been correctly reconnected.
6. Collocation Matching exercises create an exercise Android app

Select a set of collocations, normally from the same collocation type; split them into left and right parts; and shuffle each set of parts. For example, the secretary of state, course of action, hundreds of dollars might be presented as: the secretary of action hundreds of state course of dollars

Learners must rematch them.

Type: Individual

Instructions:
7. Collocation Dominoes exercises create an exercise Android app

This activity mimics the dominoes game and is populated by language from the British National Corpus (BNC) of 100 million words. The last word of the previous collocation becomes the first word of the next collocation. Here is an example: bank cheque -- cheque book -- book club -- club sandwich -- sandwich board -- board room ...

This activity helps to improve your understanding of how native speakers and writers of English in the BNC corpus combine words, also known as collocations.

Type: Individual

Instructions: Drag the words onto the domino ends to complete the sequence. Click on the ‘Check Answer’ button at any time during the activity to see which collocations have been correctly made into collocations dominoes.