SKKN Using the webs of Quizziz.com and liveworksheets.com to encourage students to actively and eagerly participate in extra practice outside the classroom

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1. * Crosswords The crossword puzzle is a traditional intellectual game that is often applied by teachers when they teach English. It makes homework more interesting and exciting. Sample :Unit 1: FRIENDSHIP (Tieng Anh 11) B. Speaking In Liveworksheets: Aim: Help students revise and widen vocabulary related to adjectives used to describe someone’s physical appearances and personalities. 11
2. * Multiple choice Sample Unit 9: NATURE IN DANGER (Tieng Anh 11) A. Reading: Aim: This activity is used for checking and widen vocabulary after lesson. In Quizziz: * Matching Sample: Unit 6: FUTURE JOBS (Tieng Anh 12) A. Reading: Aim: This activity is used for checking vocabulary after the lesson. In Liveworksheets: 2.2.2. Activities to help improve listening skills In liveworksheet, it is easy to create a large number of activities to help learners improve listening skills. In this web, teacher can use file PDF or a photo from a book to make a kind of the activity. Users are easy to add a link that 12
3. contains audios from other webs. *Gap- filling Sample: Unit 13: HOBBIES (Tieng Anh 11) C.Listening Aim: This activity is used to practise listening skills after the lesson. In Liveworksheets: Answers: 1.swimming 2. adults 3.citizens 4. child 5.practising 6. anyone 7. taught 8. twice 9.workout 10. fit 11.vehicles 12.sticks 13.judge 14.expensive 15. golf *Multiple choice Sample: Unit 12: THE ASIAN GAMES (Tieng Anh 11) C.Listening 13
4. Aim: This activity is used to practise listening skills after the lesson. In Liveworksheets: 2.2.3. Activities to help improve writing skills * Rewriting sentences without changing the meaning. Sample 1: Unit 7: WORLD POPULATION Part E: LANGUAGE FOCUS Aim: This activity helps students practise the way to rewrite sentences in a suitable condition. In Liveworksheets: Sample 2: 14
5. Unit 5: ILLITERACY and Unit 6: COMPETITIONS Part E: LANGUAGE FOCUS Aim: This activity helps students practise the way to change the sentences in direct speech into reported speech, using infinitives and gerunds. In Liveworksheets: * Word formation. Word formation exercises are made to check students’ understanding about nouns, verb, adjectives, adverbs. In English, this kind of test is popular in GCSE exams or FCE tests. Sample: A practice for word-formation from FCE book 1 test 1: In Liveworksheets: 15
6. 2.2.4. Activities to help improve grammar points All of grammar points can be designed in liveworksheet and quizziz to help students improve language using skills in both grade 11 and grade 12. 2.2.4.1. Relative clauses Sample 1: Unit 10: NATURE IN DANGER Part E: LANGUAGE FOCUS Aim: This activity helps students practise relative pronouns. * Gap – filling In Quizziz: * Multiple choice In Liveworksheets: 16
7. 2.2.4.2. Conditional sentences Sample: Unit 7: WORLD POPULATION E: LANGUAGE FOCUS Aim: This activity helps students practise conditional sentences exercises. In Quizziz: 2.2.4.3. Infinitives and gerunds Example: Unit 3: A PARTY (Tieng Anh 11) E: LANGUAGE FOCUS Aim: Help students practise gerunds and infinitives. In Liveworksheets: 17
8. In Quizziz: 2.2.4.4. Question tags Sample: Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST (Tieng Anh 11) E. LANGUAGE FOCUS Aim: Help students practise tag questions. In Liveworksheets: - Gap-filling: 18
9. *Multiple choice: 2.2.5. Activities to help improve reading skills * Multiple choice cloze Example: Unit 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY (Tieng Anh 12) A. Reading: 19
10. Aim: Encourage students' reading habit. * Open cloze Example: Unit 10: NATURE IN DANGER (Tieng Anh 11) A. Reading: Aim: Encourage students' reading habit. *Multiple choice Example: Unit 13: HOOBIES (Tieng Anh 11) A. Reading: Aim: Encourage students' reading habit. 20
11. Answers: 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. D 2.2.6. Practice tests for GCSE exams. The authors are highly apprecitated with this function of the webs due to the fact that students can practice GCSE tests without using a paper as before. The thing that makes them interested in this is they can get the results as soon as the they finish the tests and can check whether the answers are correct or not. Aim: Help students practise GCSE trial tests. 21
12. 3. Some pictures illustrate the results of students a. In Quizziz: 26
13. Teacher can check which questions students can answer right or wrong, they can click the name of the student. A following result will appear. b. In Liveworksheets: 27
14. Teachers can get students’ results in their emails or from a mailbox in the web. 28
15. 4. The effectiveness of the solutions 4.1. Teacher’s evaluation Quizziz and liveworksheet are widely used all over the world. This means that they have demonstrated a lot of good points . In two years, 2020-2021 and 2021 -2022, we have applied them in our teaching, which have brought a number of benefits: - Easily receive quick feedback from students. - Help students consolidate and revise the lessons. - Get free questions from other users in free sources of the web. - Help improve both students and teacher’s IT skills. 4.2. Students’ evaluation a. Form of the survey: The authors have used Google form with 5 questions to investigate students’ attitude toward these new kinds of giving extra activities. Question 1: Which one would you prefer, paper homework or online homework? Question 2: What is your attitude toward online homework? 29
16. Question 3: What do you like most about Quizziz and Liveworksheet? Question 4: What do you think about the suitability of Quizziz and Liveworksheet for schools? Question 5: Do you think that Liveworksheets and Quizziz can motivate you in doing homework? b. Results of the survey: There are 120 students of three classes : 11A2, 12A1 and 12A7 taking part in the survey. Question 1: Which one would you prefer, paper homework or online homework? Question 2: What is your attitude toward online homework? 30
17. Question 3: What do you like most about Quizziz and Liveworksheet? - I can get the mark quickly. - It is easy to use. - I don’t need to write down. - I can know the answers quickly. - I can practise a lot of skills. - If I do it on quizizz, I can do it many times so you can review it. There is more time to work on the test because there is no need to write down the class name and circle or re-color the answers. In addition, it also creates a more "luxurious" feeling and is more suitable for the 4.0 era. - I find it convenient, helps students reduce stress, can study and play at the same time. I think that helps a lot to understand the lesson more deeply. - I find it easy to grade on quizz for teachers, practice quick reflexes, better memory. 31
18. Question 4: What do you think about the suitability of Quizziz and Liveworksheets for schools? Question 5: Do you think that Liveworksheets and Quizziz can motivate you in doing homework? Thus, from the practice of applying the Quizizz and Liveworksheets tools in teaching by teachers, most students have positive feedback, clearly realizing the advantages of the tool 32
19. PART 3: CONCLUSION From the theoretical, practical and practical bases when using the Quizizz and Liveworksheets tools in assigning homework for students at Tan Ky 3 High School as analyzed, I draw the following conclusions: 1. Using the tools in assigning homework is a measure that contributes to improving the ways of learning and teaching, which leads to better study results. 2. Quizizz and Liveworksheets tools are suitable for modern educational trends. 3. Quizizz and Liveworksheets are supported with a lot of utilities in the free version, which can be applied to many subjects, many educational ranges. 4. Difficulties when using Quizizz and Liveworksheets tools in teaching: To use the Quizizz and Liveworksheets tools, first of all, we need to meet the prerequisites required: - Teachers and students must have internet access devices, must have an internet connection. - Teachers must invest time to prepare question packages according to the format of the tool to have their own library of Quiz questions suitable for each lesson or each part, each problem or review for students. In short, Quizizz.com Liveworksheets are suitable for use in educational settings, across all subjects. There is no optimal teaching tool or means. When teachers use these tools in teaching, it is important for them to be flexible and creative to increase the compatibility of the tools for the subject and lesson, their learning, objects and teaching environment. 33
20. PART 4: REFERENCES 1. Tiếng Anh 11 2. Tiếng Anh 12 3. “Some views on the interest of western psychologists”, Nguyen Duc Nhan (2007), Scientific journals, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. 4. Online tools: 1. 2. 34