Vocab quizzes - Gardens and gardening

These quizzes have three main ideas:

1. Dictionary resources - Take advantage of the online resources at the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) and the Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary (M-WVD).

2. Learn progressively - You can start off with the easier options such as multiple choice, and when you think you know most of the answers, you can move onto Text entry.

3. Dip in and out - You don't have to do everything at one sitting. Do a little and come back later, perhaps in a more difficult format.

M-W Visual Dictionary Online

Interactive formats (all also printable)

• Multiple choice - usually 5 options for each question
• Shows the words in a box at the top
• Shows the missing words as anagrams
• Students fill in the text without visual clues

Printable non-interactive formats

• Show first letter of missing words
• Show a dash for each letter of the missing word
• Combo - first letter and dashes
• Show consonants only
• Show vowels only

Instructions

• Multichoice - Click on one of the alternatives
• Show all words - Click on a word in the box and then click on an appropriate gap.
• Anagrams and Text entry - Type in the answers

1. The Garden

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Research

Look at the picture at the top from M-WVD then go to the OALD entry on garden, and click on the picture in the top right. Spend a couple of minutes looking at the picture, then come back and try these exercises (without looking at the pictures).

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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For more detail on soil go to OALD and look at the usage notes

2. Plant parts

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Research

Go to the OALD entry on plant, and click on the picture in the top right. Spend a couple of minutes looking at the picture of the parts of the plant in the top left. Now do the same thing with tree, paying attention to the picture of the blossom in the top right. Then try these exercises.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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3. Plants

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Research

Go back to the OALD entry on plant, and click on the picture in the top right again. This time look at the different plants, and then do the quiz.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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For more detail on plants go to M-WVD and click in any of the square pictures

4. Flowers

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Research

Go to the OALD entry on flower, and click on the picture in the top right again. Look at the different flowers, and then come back and do the quizzes.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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For more detail on flowers go to M-WVD and scroll down for descriptions. 'Next' takes you to types of flowers

5. Gardening verbs

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Research

Go to the OALD entry on plant, and scroll down to the usage note on the living world. Look at the section on plants and fungi. Then go to the OALD entry on sow and scroll down to the usage note on farming. Look at the section on growing food and raising animals.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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6. Gardening tools and equipment

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Research

Go to the OALD entry on rake, and click on the picture in the top right. Look at the various tools, and then come back and do the quiz.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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For more detail on tools and equipment go to M-WVD and click on any of the square pictures

7. Gardening idioms

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No doubt like most languages, English has several idioms connected with gardening. See if you can work them out.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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8. Growth idioms

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There are some idioms connected with growth which are used a lot when discussing business and economics.

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9. 'Garden' songs

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See if you can remember how these song titles (or lines from songs) go.

Select a quiz style: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants

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Printer friendly post

You can make clean copies of each exercise for printing. Each section will be on a separate page, starting with 'The garden' on Page 2, so do a 'Print preview' to make sure you only print what you want. You can make a teacher copy with answers by clicking on 'Show'. Make sure you 'Clear' before printing student copies.

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