Friday, December 19, 2008

Freerice.com now more than vocab




FreeRice.com was an incredible site to begin with. It's a multiple-choice English vocabulary game. You're given a word and you have to pick the synonym out of the choices. Do well and you move up to more difficult words. Simple.

Every correct answer donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The more you play and the more you answer correctly, the more rice you donate.

Now they've added different subjects to play. The site loads English Vocabulary by default, but you can click on the Subjects tab at the top of the page and choose to answer questions about art, chemistry, English grammar, geography, languages, or math. Even better, you can switch subjects while you play and your rice total will carry from one subject to the next.

So now you can brush up on more than vocabulary and support a charity at the same time.

3 comments:

  1. 1) The site is pretty nifty, I got to test out my (underrated) vocabulary skills and donate at the same time.

    2) You must scour more sites than I do to find things as cool as that site.

    Jamie

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  2. Actually my sister told me about freerice.com originally, and then it came up recently in a video I watched on YouTube. :P

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  3. Cool, thank you for letting me know about www.aidtochildren.com, bluesky. I'm on it right now. :)

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