All About Quizlet

Courtney Parkinson

 What is it?
A free website where students and/or teachers can make online flashcards
How do I use it in class?
Activity / Practice / Quiz / Test / Self - Assessment
Great for Review, Spelling, Practice tests, play games!
Use on computer or print out vocabulary
Teacher Edition ($25/year): images & sound + Track Progress
Pros/Cons
Bonus Free APP for iPhone & Android
Can be used as accommodations for students with special needs
Great review for students
Many are premade by other teachers - use the search bar! (PLEASE PROOFREAD!)

How will this help my students?

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Online they can prep from home

Games for review (scatter & space race)
Practice Tests (Students can self-check their answers)
Flashcards & Spelling checks

How will this help me, their teacher?

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Customizable material

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Can produce quizzes/tests

How will this help me, their teacher?

QUIZLET TEACHER - $25/year **HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Track Student Progress

Add voice & photos

Make private classes

& flashcards sets

Get it for 6 months free when another

teacher signs up with your link

Check mine out

-- >www.quizlet.com/MadameParkinson

3 Additional Activities
- Quizlet Memory Stations
- Quizlet Madlibs
- La Tour Dgringolate

Quizlet Memory Stations

Teacher will print out vocabulary sheets from Quizlet. (I
usually choose the small mode to save paper) Print out
enough for them to work in partner (or groups of 4)
I split the students into partners (or groups) and assign
them to a table with 8-10 vocabulary words on it.
(These are the cut out pieces of paper that I prepared
before)
Students will play Memory to guess where the location
of the target language word and the image (or English)
is.

Quizlet Memory Stations

WHEN ONE PERSON HAS FOUND A MATCH
The student must correctly pronounce the word to keep
it. The other student has to listen and make sure the first
student is correct.
Game continues until all matches are gone FOR THAT
STATION. The partners then move on to the next station
and complete the same task with different vocabulary
words.
This is a great activity for those lessons that seem to
have 75+ vocabulary words.

Quizlet Madlibs
http://www.davidgormley.name/apps/project3/madlibs_list.php

The teacher will take a short paragraph/story in the target language and create a
cloze activity with the vocabulary words that are being addressed. This can be
nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.
Create a quizlet with those words in the target language (again I suggest images
over English for understanding the word)
Students have a sheet of paper with the paragraph and the teacher has two
choices.
1) Provide a wordbank printed out from Quizlet for individual work
2) Create a Classroom-Wide Mad Libs activity! (See next slide)

Classroom-Wide Mad Libs!

(See slide for 1st part of the activity)
Teachers will pass out the cloze activity and
ask the students to conjugate the
verbs/words on the Quizlet to fit the subject
pronoun, or to make agreement with the rest
of the sentence.

On the next slide, student see the

correct conjugation. OR (since I love
images)
One sentence example:
EX: Paul ______ la piscine.
QUIZLET SLIDE:

One sentence example:

EX: Sylvie _____ une promenade avec David.
QUIZLET SLIDE: FAIRE
http://www.jeuxvideo-live.com/news-img/ps3-1229431400-1.jpg

La Tour Dgringolate! (Jenga)

Materials
- Paper, Quizlet, Scoreboard (Dry Erase Board) Little Jengas, (Dollar Store)
or Big Jenga (Target, Salvation Army, borrow from a friend)
Set up
- Each table has a little Jenga
One Jenga - Table in the center of the room
- Classes break up in teams of 2, 4, or 6
2 - 6 players on each team
(I like to keep the team numbers small)
- Jobs 1. Speaker 2.Writer 3.Quizlet Tapper 4. Jenga player
(Jobs can be stationary all game or change counter-clockwise after every vocabulary word)
Group discusses (Can have a scorekeeper or teacher can keep the score)
- Teacher explains pronunciation & accuracy count for this game
(I also clarify the rules of Jenga - you can only use one hand to pick a piece, you cannot pick from
the top 3 rows of the tower.

Jouons! (Lets Play!)

1. Teacher/Quizlet Tapper shows the first flashcard on Quizlet
2. Team 1 has 5 sec to whisper & discuss the correct answer & pronunciation. The
Writer writes down their answer with the correct article. The team then relays
their answer to the Speaker.
WHAT THE OTHER TEAMS ARE DOING DURING STEP 2
Groups are discussing and preparing their answer. The Writer writes down their
answer with the correct article. The team then relays their answer to the Speaker.
3. Teacher asks the Speaker what the teams final answer is
They respond then teacher checks Writers spelling & article agreement

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Scenarios A et B

TEAM 1 GETS IT RIGHT

The team does not have to pick up a Jenga piece (PHEW). And they get a point! Play
continues to the next team.

B. TEAM 1 GETS IT WRONG. (CEST DOMMAGE!)

Teacher asks Team 2s speaker their answer. If Team 2 knows the correct response, the 1st teams
Jenga player has to pick a piece from the tower and place it on top without knocking it over.
If TEAM 2 also gets it wrong, play continues until someone gets it right. (Sometimes its Madame
who only gets it right!)
The Writer circles the numbers the team got wrong and corrects the paper if there is a spelling or
pronunciation error
WRAPPING UP
Towards the end I usually do a lightning round or make points worth double and up the risk to 2 or
3 Jenga pieces. At the end of the game, I collect the papers and students clean up the Jenga sets.

Additional Resource(s)
Look! So many people heart Quizlet!
http://i-heart-quizlet.wikispaces.com/

References
All photos (Minus the swimmer & Madlibs)
were screenshot from Quizlet.com