News Quiz 2025: follow up

Image credits: Ruven Afanador [CC BY-SA 3.0]; 
Montclair Film [CC BY 2.0]; F darkbladeus [Public Domain]

Activities for reviewing and practising the language from News Quiz 2025

I hope you enjoyed the 2025 edition of the News Quiz. It’s true that sport was a little underrepresented this year – these things happen! That said, the quiz aims to reflect a broad range of news and topics, and I hope the accompanying activities provide an engaging way for students to work further with the language.

News Quiz 2024: follow up

 Activities for reviewing and recycling the language from News Quiz 2024

Fictional newspaper clippings generated with ChatGPT

I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of the News Quiz. I also hope that your students didn't feel it was too celebrity-focused, or found it lacking in tech news or leaning too heavily on politics - you can't please everyone! But I hope the follow-up activities will give you a balanced and engaging way to continue practising the language covered in the quiz.

News Quiz 2023: follow up

Activities for reviewing and recycling the language from News Quiz 2023

Image credits: Isaac Mayne/DCMS, Steve Swayne [Public Domain];
 Les Zg [CC BY-SA 4.0], Geoffrey Chandler [CC BY 2.0]

Welcome back, fellow EFL/ESL educators! I hope that the recent installment of the News Quiz did not only engage your students but also offered some valuable learning opportunities. Now, let's delve into a variety of language-focused follow-up activities. 

As in the past few years, these activities come in various formats. You'll find interactive drag'n'drop exercises on LearningApps, a matching activity on WordWall (Advanced level), interactive quiz on Quizizz (Intermediate level) and good old fashioned worksheets in editable Google Docs.

Interesting recent research according to Penny Ur - Pt. 2

 Penny Ur shares research she finds interesting at IATEFL 2023

Penny Ur posting for photos with fans
after her IATEFL talk (19.4.23)

This is the second instalment of my two-part post about Penny Ur’s session at IATEFL matter-of-factly entitled Interesting recent research, in which, in a span of 30 minutes, I learned more than during the rest of the conference. 

Click HERE for the first part.

The reason why it’s taken me so long to publish this (IATEFL took place in April) is that it’s not merely a summary of the talk. Upon my return I did some digging into the sources Penny Ur cited; the result is a summary combined with some personal reflections. By her own admission, she whizzed through so many studies in the talk that I only focus on those that are interesting to me.