Listening
Skills
Skills
"I'd prefer a window seat, but an aisle seat is fine too."
What is the speaker's first preference?
Window seat
Identify the grammatical error:
"The informations provided by the report is inaccurate."
Informations (uncountable nouns)
What is a word that means both "to leave a place" and "a door or opening"?
EXIT
Fix the redundancy: "Free gift"
Answer: "Gift" (A gift is already free!)
Choose the correct word: "The experiment was designed to ______ the effects of climate change."
Answer: "analyze/examine"
Rearrange the words!
Someone says: "Late the train I missed because overslept I."
Rearrange this into a correct sentence.
Answer: "I missed the train because I overslept."
Identify the redundancy:
"The small little boy carried a tiny kitten."
"Small little" is redundant; use either "small" or "little."
Spell "queue" aloud.
Q-U-E-U-E
Turn slang into formal English: "Gonna"
Answer: "Going to"
Correct the sentence: "Each of the students were given a book."
Answer: "Each of the students was given a book."
A teacher says: "You’re hitting the books this weekend, right?"
What does "hitting the books" mean?
Answer: Studying hard 📚
What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
SHORT
(Adding "-er" makes it "shorter")
Which of these words is NOT pronounced/ Read the way it looks?
A) Colonel
B) Chaos
C) Depot
D) Recipe
Answer: A) Colonel (It’s pronounced "ker-nel")
Fancy Word Swap: Replace "very tired" with one word.
Answer: "Exhausted"
Correct the sentence: "The company have announced their new policy."
Answer: "The company has announced its new policy."
A person sighs and says: "I studied so much for this test, but I still failed."
How do they feel?
Answer: Disappointed/frustrated/sad
Say this classic tongue twister:
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
If succeeded, then add 400 points
What’s a word that sounds like "bare" but means "to tolerate or carry something"?
Pick the correct homophone:
"There/Their/They’re going to the park."
They're
Fill in the blank with an appropriate collocation:
"He has a ______ grasp of English grammar."
Answer: "strong/firm"
What’s implied?
A boss says: "It would be great if you could finish this report today."
What is the boss actually saying?
Answer: "Finish the report today!" (It’s a polite command, not just a suggestion!)
Correct this sentence:
"Despite of his efforts, he failed the test."
"Despite his efforts, he failed the test." (Remove "of")
Say this tongue twister three times fast:
"She sells seashells by the seashore."
Answer: (Student must attempt to say it fluently!)
If the student succeeds, add 500 points.
Shorten this without losing meaning:
"Due to the fact that he was tired, he left early."
Answer: "Because he was tired, he left early."
What is the difference between "affect" and "effect"? Use each in a sentence.
(Let the player answer it.)