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interactive language learning
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Language activities
  • 1. Hangman exercises create an exercise

    The word to guess is represented by a row of dashes.

    Every time you fail to correctly guess a letter, another part of the diagram is drawn.

    The game is over when either you have correctly guessed the word or the diagram is completed, whichever comes first.

    Type: Individual

    Instructions: Click on the suggesting letters to complete the word.

  • 2. Scrambled Sentences exercises create an exercise

    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.

  • 3. Word Guessing exercises create an exercise

    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.

  • 4. Completing Collocations exercises create an exercise

    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.

  • 5. Scrambled Paragraphs exercises create an exercise

    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.

  • 6. Punctuation and Capitalization exercises create an exercise

    The punctuation of a paragraph is removed and students must insert the missing punctuation.

    This activity helps you study the role of punctuation in language.

    Type: Individual

    Instructions: Drag and drap punctuations on the top and put them in the right position.

  • 7. Split Sentences exercises create an exercise

    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.

  • 8. Collocation Matching exercises create an exercise

    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:

  • 9. Collocation Dominoes exercises create an exercise

    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.

  • 10. Related Words exercises create an exercise

    Two or three related words are presented in groups to learners to choose the correct word to complete collocations. For example:

    pay make

    _____ bill, _____ effort,_____ debt, ____ difference

    This activity helps you to distinguish how related words are used and combined (collocated) by native speakers and writers of English in the BNC corpus of 100 million words.

    Type: Individual

    Instructions: Drag and drop each related word into their correct (collocational) positions to make complete phrases. Click on the ‘Check Answer’ button at any time during the activity to see which related words have been correctly made into collocations.

  • 11. Collocation Guessing exercises create an exercise

    In this game-based activity words and phrases with a missing blank will appear on the screen and start moving downwards while learners enter guessed words to try and complete the collocations before they reach the bottom of the screen. Here is an example of the types of moving target words and phrases: plain -----, dark -----, white -----, bitter -----, milk -----, bar of -----. Learners must guess one keyword that collocates with all of them (The answer is obvious to chocoholics).

    This fun activity helps you to interact with a wide range of collocations in English using the same keywords and is populated by the BNC corpus of 100 million words.

    Type: Individual

    Instructions: Select the ‘Start Question’ button to begin the collocations guessing game. As words and phrases with blanks start moving down your screen enter words into the ‘Guessed Word’ box to try and complete the collocations. When you have entered the correct word the collocations will stop moving down your screen and a ‘Show Remaining Collocations’ button will appear for you to learn more collocations using the same word in context from the BNC.