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“Eslvideo.com” is a website which allows you to create web-based interactive quizzes which are answered in a multiple choice fashion, getting the information from a video that is posted next to the quiz. The quizzes can be created by teachers and students, and are free. Since they are web-based, the quizzes can be done at school or even at home.

ESL video is a good thinking generator since you can make students watch a short video clip and then write questions about it; for this, critical thinking is of the essence. This site enables teachers to create motivating tasks for learners that exploit online video and motivates students to explore the web a bit more to find the video they need. One of the best aspects of this site is that it creates the possibility of setting the same activity as a classroom task or as homework.

I find this site useful because it can help students to improve many skills at the same time. For example, students better their listening skills since they have to watch a video and listen to something in order to solve the quiz. Grammar is emphasized from the description of the quiz to its application. The vocabulary could also be exploited if it were the teacher’s aim.

Peachey, N. (2010) Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. Retrieved October, 2016 from: https://es.scribd.com/doc/19576895/Web-2-0-Tools-for-Teachers
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**__ESL Video - Activity __**
 * Group: 8th form **


 * Age group: 13 **
 * Topic: Music bands **


 * Warm Up: ** The teacher will conduct a survey by asking the students their favourite music genre and within that genre their favourite music band. The teacher will write students answers on the board and look for coincidences, if any. Also, the teacher will ask the students why their favourite bands attract them. He will encourage the students to try to guess one of his favourite bands first by guessing the genre and then the band.

He will specify that students will have to choose a song in which the lyrics are clear, contain no offensive language and in which the topics are appropriate for a school setting. They will have to choose a picture as a cover and will have to provide a brief, captivating description for the quiz.
 * Web: ** The teacher will show the students an online quiz made in //eslvideo.com// about one of his favourite bands, The Beatles. He will encourage the students to do it and see how much they score. Then, he will tell them they will have to create a quiz based on their favourite band. For that he will show them a tutorial video which explains how to create a quiz on [|//www.eslvideo.com//].


 * What Next: ** Students will send the teacher their quizzes to be corrected and then the teacher will send each student a different quiz for him or her to do. Since students will be listening to a song, they will be using earphones in order not to disturb the others.


 * Evaluation criteria: **
 * Appropriate, conscious and serious use of the tool.
 * Appropriate choices of video and images.
 * Appropriate questions and relations between them and the video.
 * Language use (structures, vocabulary, focus of the activity).


 * Sample Activity: **http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz.php?id=27127