Short answer

When students are asked to complete a sentence freely, Socrative is a great tool to display their ideas. In relatively large groups, it would be impossible to see or listen to everybody’s ideas.

By collecting students’ answers and allowing the teacher to project them, all the class can see everybody’s contribution. Usually, there will be repeated answers, mistakes to correct and excellent sentences to highlight and share.

This is what students see:

And this is what the teacher’s screen displays: