This is going to become an obstacle. How do I give students an equal opportunity to make up quizzes that involved a listening or speaking portion but still keep moving my classes forward?
One idea that I used today was to have the regular class use an on-line activity to guess what the new vocabulary words meant. For example, I had written them clues earlier, and then they had to pick the choice from several multiple choice answers. The "quiz" was designed to immediately tell them if they were right and if they were wrong what the correct choice was so they could fill in the definition in their notes.
I would like to revise the activity to include pictures; I just didn't have time to put them in. I also had to make sure that the answer for each question appeared immediately after that question instead of waiting until they had taken all the questions.
We did go through the vocabulary to practice pronunciation once I had completed the listening portion of the make-up test with my previously-absent students. I also went up and down the rows to have the students tell me the English.
Another advantage to this set-up is that any students who were not in class (and also my students who were making up the quiz) have access to all the vocabulary on-line now.
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