A selection of English ESL teded video quizzes

My video lesson is a listening comprehension with 10 True or False questions to test your students' deep understanding of the basic science of sleep deprivation as explained in this video.

The narrator speaks American English, his accent is well articulated and his pace of speech is moderate. As a result, it's relatively easy to follow for much of the time - maybe except when he throws in a bunch of scientific terms toward the end, like 'cerebrospinal fluid' and 'Lymphatic vessels'.

I recommend this video lesson for high school students and adults, who have a basic understanding of biology. 

The Effects of Sleep Deprivation - Deep Listening Comprehension

I set this video up to practice passive vs active voice by means of 13 multiple choice questions. In some of the questions I picked verbs whose active form already implies sort of a passive meaning, e.g. "accumulate", "surge", "decline", and test whether students can decide between the passive and the active voice. In other questions I gapped passive voice constructs, and again check if students can guess the right form.


I also included some advanced passive constructs, e.g. passive ellipsis: "When exposed to sugar ..." (=when it is exposed to ...), and "is to blame" (=has to be blamed).

Because hearing the well-formed sentences is a huge help for students, I decided to make the task more difficult by mischievously letting the video play on after each gapped sentence to wipe out their hearing memories a bit. :)

I think the biggest merit of such a video-based grammar quiz is to prompt students to pay attention to and notice certain grammar structures, which they may otherwise ignore when simply 'consuming' the content of a video.

What Causes Cavities - Passive vs. Active Voice Practice

My video quiz is focused on vocabulary boosting, with the 11 multiple choice questions aimed at Intermediate (B1) level and Upper-intermediate level (B2) students.

Due to the frequent biological terms, I recommend it for high schoolers and adults.

As a follow-up, you could rewatch the video in its entirety from YouTube, and then put students in teams and ask them to try to reproduce as many of the original sentences as possible with a given set of words learnt in this lesson (5-11 depending on the capability of your group). For example, 'boast' (Question 4): "The elephant boasts the largest brain of any land mammal". The team capable of reproducing the most (accurate) sentences wins. Alternatively, you could, again, assign the class a set of new words, and have the students come up with original statements using the new words based on facts heard in the video.

The video is narrated in American English at a normal pace by a female voice.

Why Elephants Never Forget

This video lesson contains 11 gapfill questions aimed at checking whether Intermediate (B2) students can hear (make out) advanced vocabulary that they possibly never heard before. Upper-intermediate (C1) and Proficient students are more likely to have already come across many of the words I cherrypicked from the video, but they, too, will find a bunch of useful vocabulary to take home.

Due to the nature of the subject matter, I would use this lesson starting from high school level.

Is There a Limit to Technological Progress

A 3:30 video Ted Ed video explaining how potato influenced the course of civilization. 

This video lesson has 9 deep listening comprehension questions (multiple choice ) and is best used in combination with the vocabulary booster for the same video: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/history-potato-vocabulary-booster

The accent of the narrator is American English, his pace of speech is moderate and his words well-articulated.

The History of the Potato

Students will watch a TedEd video about the benefits of a bilingual brain. Students will be introduced to new vocabulary.

The Benefits Of A Bilingual Brain - 2 Languages Makes You Smarter

Listen and Tap game: ESL / EFL students will tap each of the 10 words on the screen whenever they hear each one for the very first time.

How Memories Get Lost - Listen & Tap Game

My video lesson focuses on advanced vocabulary from the video and asks students to find a synonym for them through 9 multiple choice questions. It can be complemented by a deep listening comprehension video quiz based on the same video: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/history-potato-listening-comprehension

The accent of the narrator is American English, his pace of speech is moderate and his words well-articulated.


This History of Potato - Vocabulary Booster

(In)definite vs Zero Article Practice for ESL / EFL students containing 28 gapfill questions. Try out our brand new feature: the "zero gap". When creating a video quiz, the zero gap allows you to have a gap in a sentence where students don't need anything to type: just hit enter to submit their answer. It's great for activities like articles vs zero article (=a missing article, for example for general concepts: e.g. society and NOT the society).

You can create a zero gap in one of your questions by clicking on a space in a gapfill type question.

How To Stay Calm Under Pressure

Article or zero article gapfill video activity. ESL / EFL learners will leave the gap empty and hit the Submit button when no article is needed. 20 gaps in 10 popup questions containing a mixture of definite, indefinite and zero articles.

This ESL / EFL video lesson is best suited for upper-intermediate (B2) and advanced (C1) students as it features the zero article for general concepts and some expressions with articles.

This TedEd lesson is quite scientific, but is likely fit for a lot of high school groups and intelligent adults.

Can We Eradicate HIV? - Article or Zero Article Gapfill

you can check how to properly use Passive voice (all tenses) and some useful  computer vocabulary

Computer Knowledge - What's Inside Your Computer

The first video quiz on our platform featuring our brand new "Listen & tap game". Students have to tap each of the 10 words on the screen when they hear it for the first time.

Psychology of Narcissism - Listen & Tap Game

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

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how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

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53 Teded English ESL video lessons