Cambridge Vocabulary for PET: Phrasal Verbs

 

Time to face Phrasal Verbs, again?!?

We all know studying Phrasal Verbs is a tricky issue, so just trying to ease the pain, here you are some Quizlet flashcards with B1 level Phrasal Verbs.

If you don't know Quizlet yet, have a look at this post although, being such an intuitive tool, you can just start playing the sets below.

Not only for students, teachers can also play Quizlet Live in class and thus introduce a revision game in the lesson.

You'll find the same Phrasal verbs in three different sets:

• B1 Level Phrasal Verbs "English-English"
• B1 Level Phrasal Verbs "English-Spanish"
• B1 Level Phrasal Verbs "Find the Preposition"

Let's go for it!!

B1 Level Phrasal Verbs "English-English"  

 B1 Level Phrasal Verbs "English-Spanish"  

 B1 Level Phrasal Verbs "Fin the Preposition"

Quizlet - Create your own sets of flashcards

Here it is

a new way of learning vocabulary and many other things.

With this tool you can create sets of flashcards with words from your own list. You can also use sets created by other teachers.

When creating your flashcards, you can type on Quizlet or simply upload that list you've kept for ages on your computer.

What teachers can do:

• Write in different languages.
• Use images as a definition to a word.
• Print lists of vocabulary
• Print tests with varied types os questions.
• You can create groups/classes and organise a competition.

What students can do: choose among 3 Study modes and 2 games.

• Study

• Speller: Listen to a word and copy it down.
• Learn: Listen / Read the definition and write the term to study.
• Test: Test yourself by choosing from different types of questions

• Play Games

• Scatter: Match terms and definitionsto make them disappear.
• Space Race: Write quickly the term to study as the definition appears on your screen.

A very useful tool for teachers and appealing for students. Time to try it!!

Cloze Tests Generator

From time to time, we all go back to those traditional "Fill in the gaps" exercises. No doubt that they aren't the most engaging ones, but sometimes they are good to check  how well students use certain grammar points, or their general understanding of texts. Not only this, cloze tests can also be used to provoke students' imagination.

The problem is that it usually takes time to prepare these exercises; finding words first and erasing them later. The good news is that there's a fantastic tool that makes all this for us, and for free.
This tool is a creation of l.georges and you can find it here.

In this image you can see what you'll fin on your screen. Just follow these steps and you'll get you exercise ready to use;

1. Write/Paste your text.
2. Decide the type of words you want to disappear. If you have your own list of words to be taken out, click on the word and then click on the + between the to boxes of instructions.
3. Get your exercise as a text (to create your own file) or to be done on line. Decide also if you want show your students the list of words removed from the text.

Now, preparing exercises with updated tests that engage students is easier. Once you get them you can embed in a blog or copy in a doc, but they are ready to be used. See an example of fill in the gaps exercise; "Films Review"