One of my favorite resources for casual English is Buzzfeed I love their quizzes which I'm going to
show you here as well as their YouTube channels.
They actually have a few.
Each channel is for a different topic and they're really entertaining.
They're just very real life topics.
I hate to say this because it makes me sound so old but it's definitely very young English.
They use a lot of slang and expressions that are popular right now.
Now let me show you how you can use the quizzes to help you improve your English.
So the first thing I recommend is pick a quiz that sounds interesting to you.
If you want something that's English oriented they also have a surprising number of these that I personally
love.
So even as a native speaker I'll take these just for fun.
So in this one it's about meemies which I mean I just absolutely am obsessed with them because they
made me laugh.
So here they're asking you to correct.
So copy edit this rabbit's remarks.
So that means pay attention to the punctuation and what is the correct way.
So we have four choices going to pick blindly until I was incorrect.
So what this does for me now is I can observe.
OK what's the difference.
So after said before quote We need to use a comma.
Awesome.
Honestly that was more valuable than taking an entire grammar lesson.
You'll probably remember this better.
And there's an explanation.
So if you want to know why I would recommend if you can read this stuff out loud that way you get speaking
practice in addition to grammar practice.
Let's do one more just because I'm curious so here which responds to dog uses correct grammar and punctuation.
So hello.
Yes this is done.
So here we have some more options.
Again I'm just going to pick whatever one.
OK.
Awesome.
I picked incorrectly again.
And here I can read why so.
Notice how this is it's still grammar but it's brought to you in a real life way.
Nemes and it's written by people who are not English instructors.
So this gives it a more casual feel which can be very fun.
A little bit lighter now they have quizzes for everything by the way.
So here I'm going to show you one that I think is great for vocabulary development.
So this one is about designing the aesthetic bedroom of your dreams.
So number one I love the word aesthetic if you're not sure what it means.
First try to think about what it means in this context and then look it up in a dictionary if you're
still not sure.
No problem.
Now the first ones are just pictures which are quite frankly entertaining.
But of course you have your bed for example.
Pick a bed.
You learning the the words you can use their bedding to make sure that you know what that means.
And again here you can just look at the pictures.
You know what's the context.
What could bedding possibly mean.
And then as we go further down there are little more options with words.
So a wall of no flowers.
So.
This looks like Fowlkes unless you're French you probably pronounce it that way.
It's actually a word that English borrowed from French to pronounce Pho.
So here look at this and think what is what could phone mean.
You know there on the wall so they're probably not real.
So maybe Faud means fake.
You can look it up to confirm and indeed so means fake.
Then again here you just are learning more about how to describe things that are around you through
the form of a quiz.
So you can think about oh shelves these are called floating shelves.
Do you have floating shelves in your house.
Do they have these at your work.
So this is how you can use quizzes as a fun quick way to increase your vocabulary and your comfort level
with modern English.
Go check out BuzzFeed or right now and take a quiz.
Have fun.