A selection of English ESL whether video quizzes

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Hereditary Trailer - Whether or If Noun Clauses

In this video quiz students fill in the missing past simple irregular verbs. 20 gapfill questions to practice grammar.

These are quick questions where students need to fill in only one word, but still I'm a bit unsure whether 20 questions are OK or too many. So I would appreciate your feedback about it. Also, if you wish to have fewer questions, just Copy & edit the video lesson (find button below the video screen) and edit out as many questions as you want.

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Job Interview - 20 Irregular Verbs in Past Simple

Students talk about extreme sports and watch the video. They will use adjectives to describe the scenes and how people are feeling.  Students will discuss whether they would like to try base jumping or any other extreme sports.

Dubai - Extreme Sports - Jumping Off A Building - Adjectives

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

An activity for revising Present Simple, third person singular. This video is supposed to be used after teaching vocabulary describing. everyday activities (wake up, have breakfast...). Students must be given a list of the verb phrases used in the video. They are then shown pictures of Simon and Simon's cat and are asked to divide the phrases into two groups, according to who, in their opinion, does each - whether Simon or his cat. Then they write Present Simple sentences: "Simon wakes up", "Simon's cat scratches the sofa" etc. At this point, they watch the video and check whether they've guessed right or not. I also have them re-write sentences they were wrong about: "Simon doesn't turn off the TV, his cat does it."

Simon's Cat - A Day In The Life Of A Cat Owner - Troubles Abound

Choose have to, don't have to, has to or doesn't have to according to what the children decide.

Good Habits - Do's and Dont's For Children - Have to/Don't have to

Students have to decide whether an adjective or an adverb is needed for the blank. They also have to think about the meaning and choose the most suitable answer.

The Secret Life of Pets - Adverbs of Manner

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

Choose this, that, these or those. It depends on whether the objects are close to you (the viewer) or not.

Minecraft - Adventure Time - Finn vs. Enderman

Students have to decide whether to use the Present Simple or Present Continuous tenses

Barbie - Present Simple vs. Present Continuous

In this video quiz, students will be making eight sentences on their own using should (not) + have + V3 to talk about mishaps and missed opportunities in the past, e.g. "The robber should have opened the door first." 

"Deuspi" is a silent film without any language  spoken, so we will be exploiting the visuals in this lesson by getting students to create their original sentences in English to describe what they have just seen.

There are 8 open-ended questions in the video quiz with example solutions provided. If your students are doing this for homework, they can self-correct using the example solutions (by comparing their own answer to the sample answer they can choose whether to award themselves a point or not).

Check out also this related video quiz based on the same short film (conditional 3 practice): https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/deuspi-two-dumb-robbers-conditional-3-practice

And this memory game:
https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/deuspi-two-dumb-robbers-memory-game

Deuspi - Dumb Robbers - Should Have + V3 Practice

Students can find out basic words in this song . Lyrics are often reflections of an individual’s thoughts and feelings. The purpose of lyrics varies greatly.
Pop lyrics are often written to achieve much more than the communication of an idea, opinion or
emotion. For example, the use of rhythmical lyrical loops can be used, like a chant, to help induce a trance like state to the listener.

One Direction - Story of My Life

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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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>

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