News Quiz 2020 - Follow Up

Activities for reviewing and recycling the language from News Quiz 2020

Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin [CC BY-SA 4.0], 
TenAsia [CC BY 3.0], U.S. Secretary of Defense 
[CC BY 2.0] - via Wikimedia Commons

The traditional news quiz has changed its format this year so the follow up, which usually consists of paper-and-pen activities, had to follow suit. I've created a series of interactive online activities on WordWall and LearningApps, which you can adapt if necessary and share with your students. There are also 'traditional' worksheets in Word and PDF, which those of you teaching remotely can display via ScreenShare on Zoom or Teams or simply send to students by email.

• If you haven't seen News Quiz 2020 - click HERE.

• See also this Jeopardy version (Advanced level) kindly shared by a colleague of mine, Marlene Saban

• Accompanying Quizlet sets (work in progress): https://quizlet.com/leosel/folders/news-quiz-2020/

The activities are grouped by level according to the two versions of the News Quiz.

Online activities

Advanced (B2+/C1)

Matching 1a:  https://learningapps.org/display?v=pssne32bn21  (preview below)

Matching 1b:  https://learningapps.org/display?v=pgagayqp321

Matching 2:   https://learningapps.org/display?v=pm4totybj21

Intermediate (B1/B2)

Matching 1:  https://learningapps.org/display?v=phe08edy221 (see preview below)

Matching 2:  https://learningapps.org/display?v=pw6ki187t21

Collocation match: https://wordwall.net/resource/9290664 (preview below)

Discussion & Lexis

Sally Hargreaves has kindly shared this discussion activity, which is seeded with chunks from the quiz (highlighted in this colour) and which includes some additional chunks (highlighted in orange). This activity can be used to provide an additional encounter with the target lexical items, which, combined with the highlighting - a kind of input enhancement - increases the chances of their acquisition (Szudarski & Carter 2016). I've adapted the same idea for the intermediate level.

News Quiz 2020: Discussion questions - Advanced (B2+/C1) (all credits to Sally Hargreaves)

click HERE to download Word doc or preview below

News Quiz 2020: Discussion questions - Intermediate (B1/B2-)

click HERE to download Word doc or preview below

Worksheets

These are more traditional-style worksheets (like in the past).

Advanced

Click HERE to download Word doc or preview below:

References

Szudarski, P., & Carter, R. (2016). The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners' acquisition of collocations. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 26(2), 245-265.