English Toolbox Tips

We’ve had several queries about the English Toolbox Interactive HTML Exercises. Everyone likes them, but they’re not always sure how to use them in their teaching. First of all, there’s a difference between the printed and the computer exercises. The MS Word document exercises can be used in class or given as homework, but the Interactive HTML Exercises are for the student to use outside of class for testing and review. When you download an HTML file, it has the file extension “.htm,” which means it’s a web page that can be opened in any web browser. Simply e-mail that file to your students: they can save it to their hard drive, open it and use it as many times as they wish. You can also post the file to a school intranet or to a web site you’ve created: simply make it a new page on the site and send the URL to your students. The Interactive HTML Exercises shuffle questions and answers every time they’re opened, which makes it more difficult to memorize the answers; they also give the students a running score and a final score, so they can see improvement each time they use the exercises. Our samples show how the exercises appear on the students’ screens: click here or here. So the next time you download some English Toolbox files, try one of the HTML exercises: your students will love them and will ask for more!

// posted by English Toolbox Co. @ 12:04 PM