Hello fellow Canuks (and curious people, all are welcome here)!
If you are like me, occasionally your teachers comes out of the wood work and ask you to do a random lesson on Canada. Since I have been desk warming and have had nothing better to do, I figured I better make some quizzes for when those occasions arise in the new school year.
There are 2 versions, one with translations (not very good ones as they were done by me) and one with just furigana on particularily difficult words. Pick your difficultly level and go! There is nothing too complicated about these power points, but if you want to end, click on the maple leaf at any time to bring yourself to the final slide.
My kids always seem interested in hearing the language differences between English speaking countries, and I have a lot of kids that just love these styles of quizzes where the stakes are zero and they just get to guess. I also think this gives the kids an opportunity to try and guess word meanings from context. I notice some students get very nervous when they do not completely understand a sentence, this is just a silly game for them to try guessing. Where wrong answers are welcome and their own interpertations are encouraged.
For the quiz with furigana only, you could try and get the kids to guess the meaning just from the example sentence. Tell the students to come up with their own meaning, or better yet, at the end of the quiz make up their own English word and definition! Use it in a sentence, draw a picture! Just enjoy the parts of speech! Tell their friends about their word! Some silliness is always fun!
If someone ends up using this I would love to hear how it goes, eh!
I'm not Canadian but this quiz looks so fun. I might steal this idea for my own country. Just FYI in the ppt with translations there are no animations on the last question before the bonus (give'r) so when you click to reveal the answer it just moves to the next slide.
Whoops! Should be fixed now!
Hey thanks so much for this! I'll definitely use it in the future.