How I used ZOOMWORDS

A friend of mine, Geórgia, this week showed me a tool I had forgotten about, ZOOMWORDS. She had made a list of words for our students to revise and used the ZOOMWORDS application from BLIXY.COM.


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This is how I used it:

1. I told my students I would show them a list words they would have to copy for 2 minutes. 
2. I used the clock counter in our IWB to set the time limit and showed the ZOOMWORD above which I had embedded in a blog.
3. Students had 2 minutes to write down in their notebooks as many words as they could.
4. When time was over, we checked how many words they had been able to copy and then asked them to check if they knew all the words in their list. Students asked me to explain the words they didn't remember but I always repeated the questions for the other students to try to explain.
5. IN PAIRS, students gave definitions of words from their list for the other student to guess what word it was.

Why I liked the activity? Students were really involved, it was a fun way to revise, it called students' attention to the fact that they need to study vocabulary a bit more, good way to help them recap vocabulary we had studied the previous month.