3.1
Write your own practice sheets – with built-in success control!
This approach is suitable for word training with a foreign language, multiplication tables, factual knowledge (year dates, places/countries, etc.) as well as for spelling training.
This is how it works:
Take a sheet of paper, draw a vertical line or fold it in the middle. Write the questions on the left side and the solutions in the right hand column (e. g. on the left side “der Apfel” and on the right side “the apple” or on the left “7 x 9” and on the right “63” or on the left “capital city Croatia” and on the right “Zagreb”.
When finished, take a second sheet of paper and cover the right part of the test paper so that you only see the questions. Go through them one by one. Verify every time that you have given the correct answer. Mark with a cross those that you answered incorrectly, so that later on you will only have to practice those questions.
Tip:
If you can do this with a study partner (and each has a sheet), you will have twice as much practice material and more fun!
3.2
Create your own training program with a sound recorder!
This is fun and ideal for preparing dictations, learning foreign words, but also for factual questions, such as dates, places, numbers or for practicing the multiplication tables. You can record sound with an MP3 player, cell phones and smart phones, with the computer or other recording devices.
This is how it works:
- Record the dictation text, the words or questions (speak clearly!). Make long pauses regularly. During these pauses you will later answer the questions orally or in writing. In the dictation text, make a pause after each word (or after every two to three words). With words from a foreign language, first pronounce the word in your language or in the language of the school, then leave a pause.
- There are two possibilities for solving the self-control issue:Either you create a page with the solutions (in the correct order). When you listen to the recording and articulate the answers during the pauses, you can self- check your answers by uncovering one answer after the other on the solution page.Or
- You create the recording as described above. However, after each pause, you also record the correct answer. Example for English words: “der Apfel” pause – “the apple”. This variant is suitable for words, etc., but does not lend itself for the preparation of dictations.