Are you looking for a technology that can help you to create grammar exercises that you can
share with your students either to do in class or for homework and not only that immediate feedback
comes back to the teacher if that's the sort of thing you're looking for and it can be in Spanish
and French and German and English then this is the video for you I'm going to show you a fabulous
tool you can create a whole variety of different activities around grammar including audio and
video in the questions if you want to and it's a really simple tool you create the game you
share the link the students do the activity as i've said either in class or for homework
i'm going to start by showing you how the activities work so you can see the activities
that the students do and then i'm going to show you exactly how i make them i really hope you
like the video and as always if you do please like it please share it with other teachers love
to know your comments I'm going to show you two or three of the different activities that you can do
and of course please join me on my YouTube channel let's get started so let's start by looking at the
first exercise I'm going to show you and this is the first one I've made where the students have to
watch a video and after they watch the video they have to answer the questions the first one is what
is the first thing she orders well the answer is white bread then I click on next the next
question is put these things in she orders in the correct order so she orders white bread I think
and then she orders milk uh eggs and then she orders milk now go to the next one this one I've
got to put the things in order so that would be into the lamb that would be in that one now
okay there it is so I've done that exercise now I click on next finally what else does she order was
she old as a small bottle of olive oil and a small bag of flour so I've answered all the questions I
click on submit and I say yes I'm happy to submit that assignment I've submitted the assignment and
then I get immediate feedback this is the sort of grammar exercise now we could have included
pictures in this we had a video at the beginning we could have even had answers with pictures in
this so many options to do let me show you a couple more examples of this grammar x types
of grammar exercises that we can do and then what we're going to do is look at how we make them in
this next example it's really actually kind of a listening comprehension and then we complete the
text but what we could do for example is delete only verbs in the past or perhaps only adverbs
or perhaps only adjectives and make it more like a grammar exercise and what we can do is we play the
audio before working in educational technology Russell was the director of studies and then we
can basically complete the text now the brilliant thing about this exercise is it's so quick I just
paste in the text click on the words that I want to take out and then create a click on create and
that is it the voice is generated automatically and the gaps are created automatically obviously
my idea now as a student would be to listen and fill in the correct words so this could be
grammar based or this could be really kind of more listening comprehension this is again one of many
many activity types that we can do with this one technology what I like about this next activity
is just how simple it is I literally just paste in some text click on the button and the system does
it for me this is what the students see they come on and they have to read the text then they once
they've read the text so obviously it could be grammar focus perhaps in the past or in the future
or using certain prepositions afterwards they get a chance to check the meanings of certain words so
they can roll over so in this case it's kind of more focused on vocabulary than it is on grammar
but of course you could for example work with past verbs uh to really kind of work in a more
of a kind of grammar context and then afterwards you once you've done that the student has to click
on next and then begin to answer the questions okay um so this one here would be um received
then you click on the next one and this one is the word technologist and etc etc so and then you get
immediate feedback at the end but what I like is how easy it was or how easy it is for me to make
this activity I click on a button choose the words I want to focus on and the system does it all for
me okay so you've seen a few of the exercise types and you've noticed that you can use audio
and video as well if you want to do that what I want to do now is actually show you how you can
create the activities so I'm going to show you the technology I use I'll take you through the process
of creating a couple of the activities so you can see them in action and I'm also going to show you
how I share them with the students so that they can do the activities so let's get on now to
actually how you create the activities so when you come onto the platform the technology is called
Zengengo it's specifically for language teachers and it's been created by language teachers which
is one of the reasons i particularly like it you can create as many folders as you want and
each folder can be for a different class and I'm just going to click on a particular folder so we
come inside that folder and then we're going to start now to actually make our activities
so the first one we're going to do is the multiple choice and the great thing about
the multiple choices that you get actually a whole range of different questions you've
got here multiple choice reorder categorize and multiple answers if you want more than one answer
you also get the option here of adding up any media that you want to connect to the question
so it could be video it could be audio it could be a picture it could be a text etc so what I'm
going to do is just quickly fill in the title then I'm going to show you how I add the media
so I've added in the title I can click here add media as you can see I can add text image audio
video pdf embed and what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to add a video so click on video
and I've got various options I can even record it video but what I'm going to do is click on
YouTube so all I need to do now is find a youtube video and add in here the url of that particular
video so all i need to do is find the video that i want to use click on share down here then click on
copy because you want to copy the link jump over to zengengo paste that link in and then click
on this button here and it will load that video and now we're ready to simply begin
to add questions and obviously the questions are going to be related to the video so let's just
add a question so we're going to click on multiple choice we simply write the question in here we can
even have this questions read out but i won't do that and i'm simply going to write in the question
and then all i do is write my answer here and then the wrong answer here and i can choose more wrong
answers by clicking on here and then add in two or three so I'm going to save time by filling in the
gaps now so I've added in the correct answer and then the three wrong answers notice I could even
add pictures if I want to I'm not going to do that I don't need to save anything you can even add
pictures into the questions as well I'm simply now going to click on another question here by
clicking on this one here and then again I write the instructions in here and then I can choose a
series of elements and I have to put them in the correct order and it becomes a reordering activity
so I'm going to fill this one in and show you what that looks like so i simply add in the question
put these activities in order and then i just put the actual order of the activities and that will
become another question that the students can do now i can carry on with some more and I'll
just show you this one because this is quite an interesting one and this is kind of categories
and we'll do to do with his lunch so we're going to choose food and I'm just going to really
quickly show you how you do this you basically write in the category so I'm going to put fruit
here then I can add as many elements as I want so I might put apples bananas and then here for
example I might put puddings dessert and then put some names of some puddings and then here
I might put vegetables so let me just fill this in and show you so I've added here fruit meat and
vegetables and i've put two in each category of course i could have added more if I wanted
now I could continue adding more questions really easy just keep adding more questions to the system
once I've finished all I need to do is click on save now the great thing is that immediately
a link is created and you share that link with the students and then the students can do the activity
now let's quickly jump over and just quickly look at that activity so a student clicks on the link
puts in their name clicks on next and begins to do the activities they've got a video to watch
and then they've got various questions to answer absolutely fantastic immediate feedback both for
the student and for the teacher who receives the results as soon as the student does the activity
now I'm going to show you another of the text types or the activity types that I really like
as you can see there's lots of them and and within each one you can do many many different things so
it really does offer a lot of variety I'm going to try this one here called text to test and this is
really interesting because what I have to do here is give this a title I have to input some text and
then I can choose the words that I want to work with in that text so let me just quickly write
a title in now what I'm going to do in this one I'm not going to add any media prompts I'm going
to come down to here and here I have to input the text now to save time I'm simply going to click
here and copy a bit of text from my own website it's just going to make things a lot quicker so
I'm just going to copy this text just to show this idea in action so I'm going to copy that come back
to Zengengo paste in that text and the other thing that I'm going to do is that I'm going to have
the text in English and the definitions I could even choose to have them in a different language
if I want to because we're going to focus on some of the recovery here so what I'm going to do is
I'm going to imagine for example that this is and we're going to use English to French okay this
could be English to English if I wanted to keep it like that in fact let's keep it like that let's do
English to French notice also that this this idea works in English French German Spanish in other
words you can put in any of these texts in any of these languages and then it will allow you to
choose the definitions and in the definitions you can choose a whole variety of different languages
so what I'm going to do this is English to English and I'm going to click on
process and this is really powerful because what happens now is it says to me okay
first of all do you want this text read out well yes I do so I'm going to choose
ivy to read the text out for me and then it says well what vocabulary do you want to work with well
I'm going to choose for example technologist and I'm going to choose especially and I'm
going to choose and it takes all the words from the text and tells me don't forget I could have
had these definitions in another language if I wanted to so this works really well
I'll do received I'll do feedback just do and it's taking all the words from the text and allowing me
to choose which words I want to focus on so this could be really grammar focused for example all
the participles are all the verbs in the past are all the prepositions that kind of thing so lots
of different ways of using this but what I love is the speed with which this works I'm just going to
leave that no more and then it also does a little bit of work on the grammar the word order of the
sentences and says which sentences do you want to work with so I'm going to work with for example
these three okay and we'll leave that there and I'm going to show you now exactly what this looks
like look how quickly I made that activity I'm going to click on the save button and now I'm
going to do exactly the same as I did before I'm going to copy the link and log in now as a student
and let's have a look at what's been created so exactly like before i have to put in my name you
can ask for the student's email if we want to i can read the text but i can also listen to it
so i can click here remember i chose ivy's voice so let's have a quick listen russell standard is
a multi-award-winning educational technologist and founder of www.teachertrainingvideos.com
i'm not that keen on that voice i must admit some of the other voices are much better but you get
the idea that it automatically generates and reads the text out and now click on next and it gives me
various words here that it won't remember these are the words that I chose to focus on and I can
roll over and see their meaning now again remember that could be the translations can be in loads of
different languages I chose English to English but this could have been English to French or
English to German or English to Arabic or English to Chinese however I wanted to work so really
flexible tool and then once I've studied the words I click on next and then the activity starts okay
so the first word is feedback go to the next one here next one is runs go to the next one here etc
so in this next part we've now got to put these words in order so it would be russell stanhard
is a multi-ward uh winning in fact that's come out in the correct order so i haven't actually
even been able to change that but obviously that was just pure luck if we do another one you'll see
of course that that's not here he has more uh than 65 000 subscribers on his youtube channel okay so
this is word order practice again notice how easy it was for him for me to do this i simply clicked
on the words that i want or the sentences that i wanted to practice the word order with this is
what i love about zengengo it makes the activities so quickly you can sign up for Zengengo and use it
free for 30 days after that you will need to pay the price is nine dollars a month for 9.99 a month
and that will give you a mass of options in terms of creating as many classes as you want and doing
all the activities you want all the feedback you want to give to students it's a very comprehensive
technology however if you use the link that I'm showing on the screen now you will save yourself
10 every month so for as long as you've got the technology you get a 10 reduction in the price
so please make use of that link it's going to save you money i was only able to show you a very small
amount of the things that zengengo can do it's got fantastic feedback and tracking of students
activities and it's really a technology that i would suggest you look into you can either copy
the link that you can see on the screen or simply go to the description and you'll see that the link
is also there click on it and that way you will get the discount okay really hope you like that
video and if you want more free videos please come over to teachertrainingvideos.com most of
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