English Quizzes

Sometimes I will conduct English Quizzes in our classes. Quizzes are fun and provide opportunities for teamwork. They usually end up as boys versus girls, which adds a little extra spice!

As with everything in our syllabus, I've made the quizzes by myself without any help from any other source ie. the internet.

The quizzes consist of 20 questions of varying degrees of difficulty, and are based on a single letter of the alphabet. I hope to formulate 26 quizzes ready for 2013.

Our English quizzes involve spelling, sentence-making, grammar skills, rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, general knowledge, and whatever else I think of.

The students do enjoy it!

Reading your way to good English

In my previous post, I explained about the art of listening, in particular by watching English movies.

A good companion to listening is reading. Reading, reading and more reading!

One of my current primary school students is passionate about reading. His mother has to pull him away from his books so he can do his homework, eat dinner etc. Coupled with him speaking English at home, he has such a strong grasp of English that he speaks equally as good as me and gives amazingly coherent and sophisticated speeches in class with an unbelievably wide vocabulary for his age!

Reading good English on a regular basis will work wonders for you! Of course, all good English books are great for reading and building one's confidence and vocabulary. Fiction, non-fiction, biographies, magazines and newspapers are all wonderful additions.

In my adult classes, I have recently introduced another reading tool, which is my personal blog.

My personal blog can be found at:

http://www.duncaninkuantan.blogspot.com

At my blog, my students, and indeed anyone, can browse a plethora of articles I have posted about life in Kuantan, since mid-2009. My students find it particularly useful for quick, easy, and free reading practice, seeing how sentences are strung together grammatically, and bolstering their vocabulary.

So feel free to browse my blog, and whatever you do, please get reading!