VANE AND XAVIER'S QUIZZES DESCRIPTION

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This time we are going to work with some useful Internet tools(quizzes on youthink.com, a video, a listening and a reading), which are intended to help students to get a better understanding of the topics and they also have a big chance to reinforce some skills in the target language. That is why, we have prepared 3 quizzes which contain 12 questions each, and they are designed for three different age levels: kids, teens and adults.

To continue, we will describe what each quiz is based on and then we will give you an idea on how to develop each of them.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE QUIZZES

These are multiple choice quizzes constituted by 12 statements with three possible options each. You have to go to the different links and then based on that, you have to choose the most appropriated answer. If you cannot open the links from here, you can Google them. At the end of each quiz you can check your score and see how accurate you were in your answers.

FIRST QUIZ

1)-This is an amazing quiz for kids and it is based on a very nice story narrated by a kid who wanted to eat a cake his mother had baked. At night, he makes the decision to go for it, and he tiptoes toward the kitchen fearing to wake up his parents just to discover out that his sister has eaten the cake.

2)-The first thing you must do is to watch the video and pay close attention to single details to answer the quiz in a correct way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6xzw7kKN8

3)-After watching it, go to: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208422&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

SECOND QUIZ

1)-This quiz is for teenagers and it is based on a reading about the smell of a book. It says that each smells remembers us something and that everything has a different smell. The author says that his favorite smell is of a book’s, and he also describes some books he has bought because his favorite hobby is reading.

2)-Go to the following link to read the article:

http://www.topics-mag.com/edition19/smells/book.htm

3)-After that, go to this link to carry out the quizz.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208153&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

THIRD QUIZ

1)-This quiz is for adults, and it is based on a listening about “the ideal woman.”  We can listen to the opinions of two friends who have different points of views about the ideal woman. There is one man who seems to be possessive and perceives a woman as a slave, and the other who describes a woman with wonderful feelings and emotions.

 2)-listen to the conversation on:

 http://www.esl-lab.com/ideal/idealrd1.htm

3) Go to the following link to carry out the quiz:http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208414&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

It is important to say that some of the statements need your critical thinking because you cannot find the exactly answers in the audio.

CONCLUSION

This activity has been meaningful for us because most of the time students and teachers are accustomed to the traditional quizzes based on paper, but with these tools we can change the methodology, and it can benefit our pupils and the teacher. As you can see, by using these methodologies, we have access to most of students’ skills. We are sure that students will enjoy the experience of taking online quizzes and little by little they will get practice on the use of Internet tools.

MY COMPUTER AND INTERNET SKILLS

I Can't talk with experience but it is very crucial to know about computers in this new world we are living. When I was a child, I would dream touching a computer but nowadays we can see that many children own a computer and it is not as in the past that people were aghast when they saw a computer. Computers nowadays are very common that almost everyone has a computer and they can take it to different places like the park, the school, the yard, the bathroom in case of an emergency and any place they want to be comfortable and interact with that little machine that provides many advantages and disadvantages at the same time when you don't give it the appropriate usage. 

It is becoming a great need to have a computer than it is similar to drink water. This specially applies for those persons who are supposedly students and those real teachers or pobresores as they are called in this wonderful country. Students need to do many homework assignments and it is a need to have a computer and another very important tool called INTERNET, and the teachers really need those two important tools to make the TEACHING-LEARNING-PROCESS more interactive and meaningful for the students. 

I will talk about some basic internet skills you have to manage in order to make the learning process easier. First, you have to know how to use a a browser such as internet explorer and a search engine such as Google because sometimes the teacher asks to investigate any topic and if you do not know about how using internet, you have to ask others how to do it and it is a problem.  You also need to know how to download files or save the target of specific urls, upload files by using simple web forms, send and receive email with attachments, save email attachments on your hard drive, use browser helper programs like adobe acrobat reader and Microsoft media player. Those internet skills are the most important when using a computer and looking for information.

you also need to know some useful computer skills that help you to develop a homework for example if the teacher asks you to make a report, you have to know how to use a word processor, how to paste text from a web page or a word processor document into an email, how to print materials from the internet or from other computer documents, how to save a document as various file types, how to create and manage files and folders on your computer, how to find files on your hard drive and so many others. All this is related with the basis of computing and you can see they are very useful for any work you want to develop by using a computer. Sometimes it is very difficult to manage a mouse but it is a matter of practicing more