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I wrote earlier about one of my educational projects with an ESL teacher here in Kazakhstan. We designed an Jeopardy game in .html to have some fun with kids. Well, implementation didn’t go so well. A lot of teachers found it hard to work with because you had to edit so many different files and know a bit of html, or at least not be terrified of html.

So we decided to go another way. Powerpoint! The advantage is that it’s much easier to work with because you can change the questions all in one file and program without opening a million separate files. Plus it’s What You See Is What You Get. Animations and sound effects are easy to add. You can do an Audio Question or a Video Question without too much work. So here for your consideration is the PPT version, done in Open Office but everything should be compatible. The board is composed of links to the question pages and then each question page has a Back link that takes you to the board. Final Jeopardy at the bottom–the question has the theme song looped 4 times for a two minute time limit. Can easily be removed or modified.

These particular questions are designed to review Straightforward Intermediate Unit 2. Have fun, feel free to modify it, and if you have any suggestions or problems let me know in the comments.

Jeopardy Powerpoint (7 Nov 09)
and for those who prefer html: Jeopardy HTML (22 Sep 09)