Flash Quizzes for English Study

About Flash Quizzes

Flash Quizzes is part of the Self-Study Quizzes website, aiming at providing learners with various quizzes to help them improve their comprehension and skills (eg. vocabulary, grammar, and even culture aspect and so on) of English.

The sample quiz selected is about verb forms practice. In the following, I would like to discuss about it through the aspects of its advantages, disadvantages and usage.

Advantages

• As shown above, the sample quiz is about verb forms, which contains 8 questions in total.
• It is very easy to follow. Just click 'Start' and you can begin the quiz. (Sample picture is presented below.)

• Apart from the convenient control, the immediate feedback is also among the features of this flash quiz. (Below is the demonstration if you got a wrong answer.)

• As the quiz only includes 8 questions, it will not take too much time if the teacher applies it in class for students.

Usage

• As mentioned previously, since this quiz does not take too much time, in my opinion, it can be used as a exercise for review in class.
• Teacher can use it to check whether students grasp what have been taught, by doing this small quiz with students together, or leave this quiz to students to do it individually or in pairs.
• If the computers are limited, or there is no computer in the classroom, I suggest the teacher print out these 8 questions in one paper, then use it as a in-class test. Perhaps it might be an alternative to check what the students have learnt.

Disadvantages

1. As mentioned previously, if the classroom does not have any computer or the computers are not enough for students, then such quiz may not be employed in class.
2. There might be not adequate questions for students to practice, as in my opinion, only 8 questions can not cover all aspects of verb forms.
3. While feedback is provided for each question, it still needs further explanation for those wrong answers.