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Write Your Auto Biography

An important part of being a good conversationalist is being a good listener and asking people questions about what they tell you, but sometimes you also have to talk about yourself and be prepared to answer questions.

In today's task you are going to answer questions about yourself and in doing this create your autobiography. You are going to do this using a website called Biographicon which is a site that collects the biographies of ordinary people like you and me.

Task:

Go to: http://www.biographicon.com/ and click on 'Create a new biography' then type in your name and create a new biography.

You will then see the frame for your biography. Click where it says 'Answer a questions about ...' and a field will open with a question and answer that you should complete.

Complete the answer to the questions and then click on 'OK, next questions'.

You will the see the next question. Work through answering as many of these questions as you can. When you have finished answering questions, you can click on edit and you will be able to upload an image of yourself.

You can also add some basic information like when and where you were born etc in the 'Overview' section.

Once you are finished you should have quite a complete biography of yourself that you can link to or share with friends.

As your English improves and things in your life change you can also go back and edit your biography. You don't have to complete it all in one day you can do a little more each day and add few more answers to questions.

I hope you have enjoyed this activity and soon have your biography ready to share.

Here you can find more writing activities for EF ESL students.

Ask and Answer Questions

One key element of communication is the ability to formulate and answer questions. This is fundamental to using language in a communicative way to get information and build relationships.

Today's activity uses a site called Hunch which can ask you lots of questions and help you get useful information. The more you use the site, the more it will learn about you and give you better and more useful information.

Task:

Go to: http://www.hunch.com/ You will see your first question. You can either answer it by clicking your choice or skip it.

Work through the questions. These will tell Hunch a bit more about you and help it to provide better information.
After you get through the first few questions you will be offered help with making some decisions.

If these don't interest you explore more topics, or you can get some advice on learning a language by using the search and then answering the appropriate questions.
You can now get help with specific questions too by using the search and typing in what you want to know.

If you want to use Hunch regularly to ask and answer questions then it's a good idea to create an account and then it will store your answers and give you better results.

This is a great site for asking and answering interesting questions. I hope you enjoy it. Here you can find more question activities to help with your English.

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A Virtual Job Interview

Doing a job interview can be a very stressful experience, especially if you have to do it in another language. That's why it's good to get as much practice as possible and have a chance to try different answers to common interview questions.

Today's activity gives you the chance to be interviewed, try different answers and improve your listening and reading skills. You'll also get some good interview tips too.

Task:

In a moment you will be able to try the interview. Here is what you will need to do. Click and watch the video introduction.
Then click 'Start' and watch the video for the first question.
Select what you think is the best answers.

Once you have chosen your answer you will get a score.
You can also get advice on how to answer the question by clicking on 'See our advice on how best to answer this questions'

Okay you are ready now, so start by watching the video below. Good luck and make sure you answer all the questions.

I hope you enjoy this activity. Here you can find more Business English Activities.

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Take and Make a Quiz

Quizzes can be fun ways of finding out about yourself and other people and learning new vocabulary and questions.

In today's activity we are going to look at a range of quizzes from FunQuizCards and then you can try to create your own.

Task:

First I have selected some quizzes for you to try, so you can see how they work and what you can learn from them.
Take these tests and find out:

Which music suits your personality?
Are you a couch potato?
Do you look older than your age?
Do you deserve promotion?
Are you a good student?

Now think about your own quiz. Here are some topics you could make a quiz about:

- Your country - Questions about special places or significant events
- Your favourite singer / movie star / artist - Questions about their achievements or personal information
- English grammar - Questions about verb tenses
- Food that you like - Questions about ingredients
- New words your have learned - Questions about word definitions
- A special topic that you enjoy - Questions about specific information about that topic
- You and our friends - Questions about your likes and dislikes - You could share these with each other and find out how much you know about each other.

You can use Wikipedia to find detailed information and check your facts.
Think of about 5 - 10 questions. Now go to: http://www.funquizcards.com/qc/step1.php
Enter a name and an email address, then give your quiz a name and choose the number of questions your quiz will have. Then click 'Continue'.

Now enter your question and three possible answers. Click the button to show which is correct.

Then click on 'Continue' This will show you all the questions and answers you have added. If you are happy with them click continue again. Now you will see a link to your quiz. Click the link and try the quiz to make sure it is correct.

Now you can either share the link with friends by email or post it to your blog or MySpace or any network that you would like to share the quiz with.

I hope you have enjoyed this activity and found out more. Here you can find more Quiz Activities.

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Your English Personality

Taking personality tests is a great way to find out a bit more about yourself, improve your vocabulary and learn some new questions. It's also quite good fun.

Today's activity is a personality test which includes 41 questions. At the end of the test you get some information about your personality and the types of job that will suit you.

Task:

Go to: http://www.41q.com/ and click on 'Start' You will then see the first question and choice of two answers. You must select one of the answers to get the next question.

Work through the answers and at the end you will get information about your personality type. Tip: If you have any problems with vocabulary and you want to check the meanings of any of the words, you can simply go to Google.com and types define: your word and it will give you a definition of the word.

Hope you enjoy this activity and find something new about yourself. Here are some more Quiz activities

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