The Internet TESL Journal's
Interactive JavaScript Quizzes Quizzes for ESL Students

Introduction

This is a group of quizzes produced by ESL/EFL teachers around the world. Anyone who is interested in trying to write a few quizzes to add to our collection should feel free to participate. All acceptable submissions (meaning probably all submissions) will be put online and may be accessed by students all over the world at: http://a4esl.org/q/j/.

There are Two Basic Ways to Write Quizzes

Writing the Test Data Using a Word Processor

This is the way we prefer to recieve the data, since it is easier to proofread the quizzes and spell-check the quizzes this way.

Brief Instructions for Those with Computer Experience

  1. Download the "sample" template (mc-template.txt).
  2. Load it into a text editor.
  3. Edit the "header" information to show your name, the quiz title, etc.
  4. Write the questions.
  5. Email it to (The Internet TESL Journal)

Further Explanations

(If you can understand what to do by just reading the "brief" instructions, you don't need to read the rest of this page.)

We have a program which will translate a plain text file into the JavaScript data statements needed for our multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes, so you don't need to learn JavaScript or HTML in order to submit a quiz.

The data must be in this format.

Multiple-Choice


Line 1 - QUESTION
Line 2 - CORRECT Answer
Line 3 - INCORRECT Answer - At least 1 is required
Line 4 - INCORRECT Answer - The rest are optional.
Line 5 - INCORRECT Answer
Line 6 - INCORRECT Answer


Example:


I ___ a dog.
have
has

I ___ in Japan.
live
living
lives
is living

Let's ___ tennis tomorrow.
play
playing
plays
played
to play
Fill in the Blanks - Type in the Answer


Line 1 - QUESTION
Line 2 - CORRECT Answer
Line 3 - (Another correct answer) Optional
Line 4 - (And another correct answer) Optional

(If there are more than 2 or 3 correct answers, the question is
probably not a good one. However, our JavaScript template can handle 
any number of possible answers. Just remember that the filesize
will grow causing a longer download time.)

Example:


My brother is ___ now. (swim)
swimming

I like ___ with my brother. (swim)
swimming
to swim

Additional Information Needed

Please also include the following information. Just copy and paste this into the top of your document, then edit it to suit your needs.
title="Assorted Questions - 1"
level="Medium"
category="Grammar"
date="May 4, 1998"
writer="Charles Kelly"
copyright="1998"
bgcolor="FFFFCE"
url="http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/"
email="ckelly@ge.aitech.ac.jp"

Writing the Test Data Using Our Online Data Writer

Unless you are going to put in feedback when wrong answers are chosen, it is probably better to use a word processor to write the test data.

Send the Quiz to us

Please save the file as PLAIN TEXT (with no added lines, if your word processor gives the option).

send the quiz as an attachment to:
Or, you can copy from the word processor and paste it into an email message.


http://a4esl.org/q/j/