GCF LearnFree: Homophones, Grammar Videos, Bingo, and Quizzes

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Activity Description

GCF LearnFree is a Web site of many uses. For this lesson use the grammar section. Students will watch the videos and make a quiz on their topic. They can follow up with a Bingo game.

Preparation

1. Preview the Grammar Practice: Homophones activity and any of the videos you would like to use.
2. Make copies of the handout, Example Document - Write a Quiz (above).
3. If you do the follow up activity, print Example Document - Blank Bingo Board (above) for each student.

How-To

1. Discuss Homophones.
2. As a class go through the Grammar Practice section, Homophones .
3. Assign individual students or pairs to watch a grammar video and create a quiz that demonstrates their set of homophones.
4. You can have students trade the quizzes for more practice.

Teacher Tips

• This is a great site to practice computer skills, collaboration and learn the topic as well.

More Ways

• Assign students to bring a list of three homophones to class with example sentences. Choose 24 of the homophones. Hand out a blank bingo card. (See Example Document - Blank Bingo Board, above). Students fill in their Bingo card with the homophones in whatever order they prefer. Suggest that they do not go in order, but scatter the words over the card. Play Bingo using the sentences the students wrote to review the words.
• The GCF LearnFree site has so many resources that it's hard to know where to start. Go out to the home page and browse around, especially in the Everyday Life, Reading, Work and Career, and Technology sections.

Program Areas

• ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

• Low
• Intermediate
• High
• All Levels

Documents

• Write_a_Quiz.doc - Write a Quiz
• blank_bingo_board_FINAL.docx - Blank Bingo Board

Subjects

• Reasoning Through Language Arts
  • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
• Writing
  • Basic Sentences
  • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
  • Paragraph Skills
  • Parts of Speech

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