What is an English quiz? Many of us can answer that this is a special event that is organized in an educational institution of any level (university or school). This event allows with a great degree of efficiency to increase the stock of knowledge of students in the field of the subject being studied.
Let's consider in more detail the question of how to conduct and properly organize this quiz.
Essence of the quiz
A quiz is a teaching method that, on the one hand, proceeds from the need to organize students' gaming activities, and on the other hand, involves studying the material at a higher level of complexity.
The English quiz provides students with a we alth of opportunities to improve their speaking skills, translate words, and try to solve difficult grammatical forms of the language.
At its core, quizzes aredevelopmental means, and it is difficult to use them directly for training. Usually they are used in extracurricular activities - during KVN, computer science evenings or other similar events. The basis of quizzes are sets of questions or tasks. Quizzes, crosswords in educational activities, unfortunately, are used extremely rarely. Working with quizzes with proper formulation allows not only to develop, but also to train schoolchildren.
Typology of quizzes
Any event of this kind, including an English quiz, has its own characteristics.
The most simple is the typology according to the method of presentation, since it is based on the method of presenting questions: verbal quizzes are spoken out, while written ones are presented on tangible media (paper, cardboard, interactive whiteboard).
It is for written quizzes that the design typology is used. If the questions are given in the form of pictures, then this is a graphic quiz, if there are only letters and other symbols, then it is a text quiz, and if there are letters and pictures in the quiz, it belongs to the text-graphic type.
Typology for the means used is as follows. If any material objects are used during the quiz (for example, to demonstrate or clarify questions), then it belongs to the type of quiz with material objects, otherwise it is a quiz with abstract concepts.
The fourth sign is quite simple - typology by subjectareas: depending on the content (the content of the questions), these can be mathematical or physical quizzes, quizzes on natural history.
According to the typology of the specific questions, if these questions are posed traditionally, then the quiz is considered standard. Entertaining quizzes, on the other hand, use non-standard questions, or a quiz is a narrative or a complex image, to which indirect questions are asked.
Why is an English quiz useful?
The benefits of these training sessions are obvious. Firstly, they are positively perceived by both elementary school students and middle and senior students. Secondly, it is with the help of such events that a teacher can form in students a love for their subject and interest in activities.
Methodological material for the event
What questions can you suggest for the quiz? They can be very diverse. As a rule, these activities use either some literary work that children studied in English, for example, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, or talk about some region of the UK.
There are quizzes designed to expand students' knowledge about the history of England, its royal house and more.
Thus, we see that the questions for the quiz are compiled based on the age of the children, the level of language proficiency and the personal preferences of the teacher.
Summarize
Hence,it can be concluded that the inclusion of additional material in foreign language lessons is pedagogically expedient. The organization of quizzes as one of the ways to keep students interested in the subjects being studied is very useful. Nevertheless, the teacher is required to prepare in advance, or rather, the selection of additional material for each subject separately (texts of a country-specific nature, links to Internet sources and printed literature). The selection of material should be based on the questions and tasks that are included in the quiz. An example of this is the country-specific quiz in English.
At the same time, it is very important to monitor the understanding of the additional material read by each student, since in some cases the style of presentation may not correspond to the age characteristics and level of language training of individual students. When preparing for quizzes, organization and consultation are necessary.
It's important to remember that the UK quiz is a fun way to help kids learn a lot about the country they're learning.
