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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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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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Tease your Brain

Reading is not only good for developing your English, but you can also use it to test your analytical thinking and solve problems.

Today's activity is a problem solving task. You'll need to read information, enter the information into a graph and use the graph to solve a problem.

Task:

Go to: http://puzzles.com/Projects/LogicProblems/PieForMom.htm. Read the information on the right of the chart.
As you read add the information to the chart by clicking the correct cells on the table.

Once you have all the information in the table, use the information to solve the problem. You can click on the words and then click on the correct cells for the answers.

If you need help with solving the problem you can get some advice from 'Tips on Solving Logic Problems' You can also find the answers to the problem at the end of the tips page.

I hope you enjoy solving this problem. You can find more logic problems to test your brain and develop your English at: Puzzles.com

Come back tomorrow for more EFL ESL activities.

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Halloween Horror Quiz

Today's activity is an Halloween Extra. For those of you who like horror movies and quizzes, this activity is ideal for practicing your reading skills, developing your horror related vocabulary and testing your knowledge of films. I'm even going to help you cheat a bit.

Task:

Go to: The Horror Movie Quiz and click on start.

You'll have to answer 50 multiple choice questions. If you're not sure about the answer to each questions you can check information and try to find the answers by searching for the names of the films at the Internet Movie database at: http://www.imdb.com/ just enter the name of the film or character and press on 'Go'.

Good luck. If you can get more than 25 right you are doing much better than me.

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Take a Quiz Adventure Journey

Quizzes are a great way to improve your general knowledge as well as develop your knowledge of English question forms.

This quiz from the BBC's BiteSize website is an adventure quiz with 8 beautifully designed levels. The quiz tests your understanding of writing skills, maths, science and many other topics. Another interesting thing about the quiz is that you have to click parts of the image to find the questions.

Task:

Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/games/questionaut/pop.shtml and start the quiz. Here's a clue to get you tarted. Look at the picture below.

As you answer questions correctly you will get fuel for your ballon which will help to take you to the next level

There are 8 levels in total.
Each one has a different desgn and topic and different things to discover.

I hope you enjoyed that activity. Let me know if you'd like to do similar activities to this or just find out more about the artist.

More EFL ESL activities tomorrow.

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