This blog post discusses ways to make exam revisions more engaging for students. It notes that revision time can be high stress for both students and teachers. The post recommends using down time during revisions to consolidate learning and suggests mixing up revision activities, including using past exam papers, vocabulary booklets, songs, videos, and jokes to demystify exams while keeping students engaged. Activities should give students a taste and let them explore topics on their own to boost confidence during the revision process.

1. Jazzing up revisions
Isabelle Jones
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
@icpjones

2. Revision time
High stress-ours and theirs
What have they retained?-No
assumptions please!
Confidence and over-confidence
Effective time-management
Using down time to consolidate

3. Mix and match
• Past exam papers-demystifying the exam
• Core vocab booklet/topics, false friends, prefixes and
suffixes, make your own words/sentences
• Songs-songs and grammar
• Videos-give a taster and let them run with it…
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJtmC64__X0
• Jokes-Facebook jokes and grammar

12. Jazzing up revisions
Isabelle Jones
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
@icpjones