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ABU DHABI MEN’S COLLEGESEMESTER ONE

TOM JOHNSON –GEN. ED. FACULTY ADMC

tjohnson@hct.ac.ae

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NOT COMPREHENSIVE – JUST THE FEATURES I’VE

USED

CREATE FLASH ACTIVITIES: LAPTOPS & PHONES

BBV VISTA

STUDYMATE.COM

SEPARATE WEBSITE

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Select ‘TERM/DEFINITION’ OPTIONFive activities & glossary simultaneously

created:Flash cardsType the wordFill the gapMatchingGlossary

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Select ‘MULTIPLE CHOICE’ OPTION

QUIZ and CHALLENGE options created simultaneously: Standard multiple choice Challenge – same as Jeopardy team game 5 question categories & levels of difficulty 25 question items needed for Challenge

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5 POSSIBLE CATEGORIES FOR CHALLENGE

GRAMMATICAL FORM MEANING NUMBER OF SYLLABLES WORD STRESS SPELLING

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CHALLENGE QUIZ GRADING CRITERIA

Word Frequencies:

1st 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 most common words in English

Based on Longman Corpus Network: Compare

‘door’ and ‘baguette’, ‘big’ and ‘enormous’

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Lexical complexity:Compare: ‘month’ with ‘accommodation’, ‘price’ with ‘psychology’

Question Difficulty: Compare:

How many syllables does 'foreign' have? Which word below has the same number of

syllables as 'secretary'?

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THE FUTURE Website based on, but not limited to ‘Oxford Word Skills – Basic’ Website very big project – just started [URL in handout] ‘Oxford Word Skills – Intermediate’ Online exercises will be developed by another teacher ANY QUESTIONS?