Images by Tim Evanson , Gene Hunt & Alex Alishevskikh via Flickr As usual, as a follow up to the traditional end-of-year news quiz, here are language-focused activities aimed at reviewing and consolidating lexis from quiz. If you haven't seen the news quiz 2013, click HERE This is how I usually use the quiz with my students. Please note the quiz and the activities below come in two levels. Lesson 1 : (first lesson of a new year) Students answer the questions the quiz. Optionally, I may give out the correct answers. We highlight interesting chunks of language (see the teachers' notes that accompany the quiz) Lesson 2 : Students' mini-presentations on the news stories they chose in Lesson 1 OR the ones they didn't know the answers to. Vocabulary review and practice 1. (available in two levels) Lesson 3 : Vocabulary review and practice 2 (available in two levels) Scroll all the way down for the teachers' notes for the vocabulary activities for both levels. 2