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Esl Review: Past Tense Irregular Verbs Quiz
A quiz on using the past tense of irregular verbs is found at this site. Eighteen questions to challenge your knowledge. When finished, check your answers by clicking "Check Your Answers" at the bottom of the page.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Prepositions Level 2
This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides a 10 question activity that asks for the missing preposition from a complete sentence. Moderate difficulty. Includes correct answers without detailed explanation.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Paynes Prairie
Adapted from Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park brochure, this article gives an excellent overview of the nature preserve and its history. The quiz offers feedback immediately.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin is the subject of this passage and the comprehension questions which follow. The test is interactive online, and may be printed for use in the classroom by going to the site map and choosing PRINTABLE MATERIALS.
BusinessSpanish.com
Business Spanish: Saludos/greetings
This business Spanish tutorial teaches how Spanish and English speakers how to greet each other and relevant cultural notes.
Randall Davis
Building Your Listening Vocabulary: Personality Types
This exercise designed for English language learners helps build their vocabularies. Students learn words associated with personality traits, such as selfishness, truthfulness, and cleverness, by completing this multiple-choice quiz.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Making Questions
This is targeted practice for question formulation; guided prompts ask the student to type question (yes-no or who, what, where, when). Students can then check the answer, ask for a hint, or see the answer.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Adjectives and Adverbs
This is a basic explanation of adjectives & adverbs, with examples of each. This resource explains how to change adjectives into adverbs through interactive exercises (with hints and answers).
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: "It" and "There"
Brief interactive exercise on proper usage of "there is," "it is," "is there," "is it," "there was," "it was," "was it," etc. Twelve questions, the student types in the blank & can then check the answer or get a hint.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)
Useful, extensive site for the Spanish-speaking ELL. This grammar section focuses on use of the articles "a/an" and plurals. A variety of interactive, self-correction exercises are provided. A "Teacher's Lounge," section is available...
NASA
Nasa: Tres Pequenos Satelites Que Viajan a Cuestas
A challenging and creative hangman activity where students read a short article about satellites and then proceed to play "Nanosat Flingman." A great learning activity for for reading comprehension, vocabulary, and pronunciation....
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: The Inverted Pyramid
A short explanation of how newspaper writers construct their articles. Review questions at the end are corrected for you, and model answers are shown for the short answer questions.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: "Zinnia and Her Babies" by M Bianco
A charming story about Zinnia, the cat. Comprehension questions follow, with immediate feedback if done online. Teachers, go to the site map, and under PRINTABLE MATERIALS, you will find the story, the quiz, and the answer sheet.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Death Valley
This newspaper article deals with a curious geological phenomenon which occurs in Death Valley. After you read the article, test your understanding by answering the multiple choice questions.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Droughts May Have Killed 1st Colonists
For advanced readers, this newspaper article on the "Lost Colony" and Jamestown, is followed by questions with immediate feedback. It can be printed for class use.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Scrub Jay Gains Favor
After reading this Tampa Tribune article by Jan Hollingsworth, respond to the multiple choice questions to see if you have understood. Immediate feedback.
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Eigo21: Daily Hangman
A site for self-study of English for Japanese speakers. Instructions are in Japanese. Maintained by a private afterschool "English cram" program. This section has an interactive Hangman game that updates daily. Play today's game or let...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: The Florida Boys on the Suwannee River
This excerpt of the story by John P. Jones Jr. is exciting and fun to read. The questions will be corrected for you, so you can check your own work.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: "The Crow" by Margery Bianco
"The Crow" is a short story which has been adapted from the original. It is followed by multiple choice comprehension questions, and corrections so you can correct your own answers. There are also some extended response items with model...
University of South Florida
University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Practice Test: The Florida Panther
The Florida panther is the subject of the short article, with accompanying questions for assessing reading comprehension.
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Placement Test
Test your English ability. You will get a score at the end, plus the correct answers for any items you miss. You then have the option to choose more exercises on any of the subjects covered in the test.
Other
Eflnet: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
This interactive quiz assesses student understanding of comparative and superlative adverbs.
Better English Lessons
Vocabulary Exercises for English Language Learners
Choose from among a number of exercises designed for advanced English language learners. The menu of exercises, which appears on the right, covers a complete range of topics geared toward building vocabulary used in business-related...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Bonsai
After reading a short passage, you can check your comprehension through some multiple choice and short answer questions. Immediate feedback is provided.