Quizizz presents classwork and homework in a gamelike format. For some students (though some may disagree), completing a quizz sounds far more interesting and engaging than opening up the student's book and doing an exercise. The more interested students are in a task, the more dedication they will put into it.

This is specially true for students with special needs. Planning motivating activities is a key step towards making students with special needs relax in your lessons and feel confident enough to participate. It is also a way of taking them out of the course book and providing a different way of practising the language. Working with clear and well-planned quizzes can help the teacher pay close attention to special needs of students and allow the teacher to walk around the class, monitoring. This is possible also because when using Quizizz, students can be left alone to work on the quizz and check their answers with the immediate feedback by themselves.

If we focus on students with ADHD, something worth mentioning is the format of the activities within this app. Having to focus on short quizzes helps those students who have a short attention span and need to feel motivated to complete an exercise. Besides, Quizizz allows teachers to create different types of quizzes, so that activities do not become repetitive and students don't get bored. With Quizizz, it is also possible to promote empathy and a good rapport among students by creating quizzes that require them to find out things about each other and what things they have in common.

Find within this post three activities planned keeping students' ADHD in mind.

After having explained comparative and superlative form, the teacher will present a first activity where students will have to access a Quizizz and do a multiple choice activity. They will be presented with different sentences, like for example "Emma has the shortest hair" and be shown images that can represent what is being expressed, hence: a girl with long hair, a girl with medium-length hair and a girl with short hair. They will have to choose the correct image in order to answer correctly. 

This exercise is useful as a first instance of controlled practice, which can be more attention grabbing for students who may have ADHD. Apart from the dynamic layout that includes colors and imagery, the students can also find their attention sustained by the sentences that appear one at a time and from which they get immediate feedback on their answers.

Furthermore, it will help the students dispel any doubts that may have arisen at the explanation stage, having to only focus on understanding the utterance and comparative or superlative form, rather than producing language.

This exercise would be followed by fill-in-the-blanks activity where they are given an image and a sentence to complete.

 Eg: the car is..... (Fast) than the bike. 

And for example an image of a bike, a car and a train. The student will have to notice the different clues to reach the conclusion that he will need to use a comparative form: The sentence is written with "than" and the image also contains a train which is faster than the car, therefore using superlatives would not be correct. The modality is similar to the one in exercise 1 which can, again, help students with ADHD. However, in this instance the student will have to actively produce a portion of language, and consequently pay close attention to form and accuracy.

To engage students in a more communicative and dynamic activity and get them to produce after the controlled activities, a question format available at Quizizz is the open-ended type of questions. Students are provided with a question and a blank space to type their answer. The accuracy of the answers cannot be measured in the app but as students submit their work, the teacher can check everyone’s answers and assign a mark.

In a lesson where the communicative goal is comparing a subject to a group of objects and the grammar focus is superlatives, students can work with the following questions:

1. Which is the most difficult subject at school for you?

2. Which is the easiest subject at school for you?

3. Who is the tallest student in the class?

4. Who is the best at math in your class?

5. Who is the oldest student in your class?

6. Who is the most hard-working student in your class?

To answer these questions, students have to make use of the target language and apply the superlatives rules taught in the Clarification stage. The most creative part of the activity is in the questions they’ll have to ask their peers to get the answers. At a A2 level, students are expected to use the new items in yes/no questions as well as in wh questions.

In Quizizz it is possible for the teacher to assign a time limit for each question. Considering students have to interact and get some answers from their peers, a time limit of less than two minutes per question is advisable. The time allotted for the complete activity is less than fifteen minutes, considering the teacher’s instructions.

Students with ADHD can benefit from this activity given that encouraging interaction with peers might increase the motivation of students with special needs. Also, setting a time limit for each question will make the activity more challenging and will require them to keep their attention focused on the task at hand.