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I absolutely love quizzes. I always have. Even when I was little, I loved them. At school I always had my hand up to answer questions. I remember looking at quiz shows on TV and getting more questions right than the adults. I guess I had a pretty good general knowledge. I was amazed when the game Trivial Pursuit came out – there were cards with thousands and thousands of quiz questions on them. And these were real questions. I didn’t know half of them. They were tough. I still like quizzes. There are loads of them on the Internet. I can’t resist doing one when I see one. I usually do the news quiz on the BBC. Just ten questions about the week’s news. I think I’ll always like quizzes.

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DISCUSSION (Write your own questions) STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Write five GOOD questions about quizzes in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

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 Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.  Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

Write about quizzes for 10 minutes. Show your partner your paper. Correct each other’s work.

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1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET INFO: Search the Internet and find more information about quizzes. Talk about what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Write a magazine article about quizzes. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.

4. QUIZZES POSTER Make a poster about quizzes. Show it to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your posters.

5. MY QUIZZES LESSON: Make your own English lesson on quizzes. Make sure there is a good mix of things to do. Find some good online activities. Teach the class / another group when you have finished.

6. ONLINE SHARING: Use your blog, wiki, Facebook page, MySpace page, Twitter stream, Del-icio-us / StumbleUpon account, or any other social media tool to get opinions on quizzes. Share your findings with the class.