Matching Quizzes for ESL Students

12 Questions per Round

• English Vocabulary Matching Quizzes
  • Opposites (3 Dozen)
  • Prefixes (2 Dozen)
  • Words & Definitions from VOA
    • Nouns from the VOA (4 Dozen)
    • Verbs from the VOA (14 Dozen)
    • Adverbs and Adjectives from the VOA (9 Dozen)
  • This next one is for teachers, so they can get the same feeling that their students might have doing the above quizzes.
    • Very Difficult: GRE Vocabulary Words (117 Dozen)

• Non-Language Study Matching Quizzes
  • Presidents of the USA and Years in Office (3 Dozen)
  • Roman Numerals (1 to 1,000) (83 Dozen)
  • Roman Numerals (1880 to 2011) (11 Dozen)
  • The Chemical Elements (8 Dozen)

• English-Japanese Vocabulary Matching Quizzes
  • We have some bilingual English-Japanese Matching Quizzes, too.

  Features of This Matching Quiz Program

  • Items are shuffled each time a quiz is taken, so it useful do the same quiz more than once.
  • You get immediate feedback on each attempt to make a match.
    • A wrong match is immediately rejected.
    • A correct match attaches itself.
  • The score for the round and the total score are calculated in real time after each attempt to make a match.
  • There is just enough sound to make it more game-like, but not enough to require a lot of download time.
  • The downloads are small, so you shouldn't need to wait long.
    • The average file size is about 18 Kb.
    • The GRE quiz, even with 1,404 questions, is only 40 Kb.

6 Questions per Round

• English Vocabulary Matching Quizzes
  • What time is it? (13 Rounds)
    
  • Words & Definitions from VOA
    • VOA Special English - Nouns (70 Rounds)
    • VOA Special English - Verbs (69 Rounds)
    • VOA Special English - Adjectives and Adverbs (36 Rounds)
    • VOA Special English - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs (185 Rounds)

• Activities to Go Along with the Many Things Textbook
  • Page 158 - Where do you ...? (2 Rounds)
  • Page 159 - Adjectives for People (2 Rounds)
  • Page 160 - Counting Non-countable Things (2 Rounds)

• Activities to Go Along with the Practical Things Textbook
  • Page 242 - Occupations (2 Rounds)

• Commonly-used Proverbs
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 1
    3 six-question rounds, capitalized words
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 2
    2 six-question rounds, plural nouns
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 3
    8 six-question rounds, singular nouns
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 4
    4 six-question rounds, adjectives, etc.
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 5
    4 six-question rounds, verbs
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 6
    3 six-question rounds, verbs
  • Proverbs Matching Quiz 7
    4 six-question rounds, misc.

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Here is a list of some of the longer quizzes. Load one into your computer and take it with you.

• 6 Questions per Round
  • VOA Special English - Nouns (70 Rounds)
  • VOA Special English - Verbs (69 Rounds)
  • VOA Special English - Adjectives and Adverbs (36 Rounds)
  • VOA Special English - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs (185 Rounds) - This one should keep you busy for hours!
• 12 Questions per Round
  • Nouns from the VOA (4 Dozen)
  • Verbs from the VOA (14 Dozen)
  • Adverbs and Adjectives from the VOA (9 Dozen)