What's all this about
These generators are a bit rough and ready, and certainly not as polished as other generators around. On the other hand, they're quite versatile and my idea is that you can use them quickly, without too much fuss. I find some of the glossier generators a bit of a hassle to use - filling in lots of separate boxes etc.
They are offered very much 'as is', but I hope they might prove useful. I think the best way to see how they work is to play around with them a bit.
Tools currently available.
New!
- IPA symbol generator - keyboard to generate HTML phonetic symbols for use in a blog or web page
Standard printable exercise generators
- WordChanger - changes a list of words - removes vowels, consonants etc - makes anagrams, word shapes
- New improved gapfill printable exercise generator - this is intended to supersede the earlier Multi-function Gap Fill generator. It includes a quick Gapmaker facility and can make more Word-friendly worksheets than the earlier version.
- Matching exercise generator - For basic spaghetti type exercises
- Information gap generator - Students ask each others questions to find the information
Instant exercise generators
- Text jumbler - divides a text into groups of jumbled lines
- Vowel remover - removes vowels, punctuation and more
Basic randomiser
- Basic Randomiser - Just does 'what it says on the tin'
Interactive exercise code generator
- Interactive Gapfill code generator Version 2 - - generates a gapfill exercise and all the code you need to put an interactive exercise on your blog or web page. Updated version of the generator below, which has dealt with a slight problem on the original.
Various
- Assorted gap fill exercises - editable exercises. Could also be used as a rather versatile gap fill generator
- Quick gapmaker - This quickly square brackets words for use in any of the gap fill generators. Now incorporated into the 'New improved gapfill printable exercise generator'
Kids' stuff
Superseded by newer posts
- Multi-function Gap Fill generator - Now superseded by the 'New improved gapfill printable exercise generator'
- Interactive Gapfill code generator - Now supersede by 'Interactive Gapfill code generator Version 2'
Other people's generators and worksheets
- BBC / British Council Teaching English - very superior gap-fill (but there's something wrong with the print version), board games, flashcards - you need to register, but it's free
- SEN Teacher
- TEFL Net - 3 - Matching, Sorting and Anagrams
- Charles Kelly at a4esl - 1 - Multiple choice
- Superkids - not really generators
- Discovery Channel - Word search, crosswords
- Bogglesworld - especially good for kids' stuff
A note to developers
I've just made a little discovery. I soon found out that to put Javascript in the Head section, you had to convert entities. But for these generators I didn't want to load up the Head section with script that's only going to be used on one page. So I tried putting the script into the Body section, as I do with answers to the exercises. But when I did this, nothing happened.
Now I've just done a little experiment, and discovered that if you don't convert the entities when your script is in the Body section, but just load the code it its usual form, everything is Hunky-Dory.
