New sentence completion quiz added to ESL Reader

In addition to the Vocab Quiz, now the ESL Reader has a Usage Quiz. It is a sentence completion quiz, again based on the vocabulary words that are present in the page. The sentences in the quiz are from recent newspaper articles. You can take the quiz multiple times and each time it will give you different sentences. At present, sometimes the sentences can be a bit tough, so I might add multiple levels to the quiz down the road.

There are 2 ways to access ESL Reader.

1. You can either go to the ESL Reader site, or,
2. You can go to one of the partner sites, such as Manythings.org and look for the ESL Reader link on their content pages, e.g. go to VOA News index page and go to any of the pages listed there.

Check it out!

Top ESL website using ESL Reader

Manythings.org is one of the oldest and highest traffic websites for ESL (English as a Second Language). It contains a treasure trove of content and activities for ESL students. I have been working with them to allow their web pages to use the ESL Reader web API. You can now see it in action on any page on their site that contains reading material (such as news items, essays, etc.)

For example, go to http://www.manythings.org/voa/america/ or http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/ and click on any item. When the page comes up, look for the ESL Reader link on the right hand side of the page. When you click on that link, the page will be processed by ESL Reader and you will be able to use the basic ESL Reader functionality on that page. Note that ESL Reader is currently pre-beta and many more interesting features will be added to this in the near future.