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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Session 5th May
Here are the 10 websites that we looked at in our session:
1 www.cueprompter.com Teachers' comments: AGE: It can be adapted for any level.
It could be useful for students to read any kind of activity they have already prepared: dialogues, songs, chants…
In that way they don’t need to hold the materials, like paper, in their hands. This helps them to improve body language and other skills.
-it can help students to improve their reading, listening and writing skills.
2 http://futureme.org Teachers' comments: AGE: Primary level & upper
This resource can be useful for:
• To revise the date (ordinal numbers, month of the year, etc.)
• To learn & check basic vocabulary to write an e-mail (from …, to …, deliver on …, subject…). To achieve basic competences.
• To make the students remember things they have to do in the future.
• To introduce / practise simple future.
• you can use it for writing practice.
3 www.eslvideo.com (look at: http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz.php?id=5909 and
http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz.php?id=5567) Teachers' comments: AGE: according to the objectives to be achieved.
• To practice listening skills.
• To ask questions related to the listening.
• From the teacher’s point of view it’s useful to input your own questions according to the objectives you want to achieve.
-it’s very good for listening practice but with highly-motivated students and with good level.
-As the teacher works through the listening task, (s)he can adjust the questions and tasks to lower levels so that students can successfully complete the tasks.
4 http://busyteacher.org Teachers' comments: AGE: all ages
In this website you can find lots of resources like worksheets already made for you to use (to practice all the skills).
A pretty useful tool for teacher when they need to find extra activities to bring into their lessons.
5 http://iteslj.org/questions/ (then use http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/resources/sentencemix.html) Teachers' comments: AGE: all ages
You can find lots of language: vocabulary, expressions, etc. to practise conversation.
Helping students to develop questioning and getting them involved with speaking.
6 www.howjsay.com Teachers' comments: It is useful for pronunciation and listening. All levels. There is also a dictionary.
7 www.vocaroo.com (listen to: http://vocaroo.com/?media=vVh8X4RfFQvJJVq3L ) Teachers' comments: It is a voice recording service. Students can record their own voice and send it to the teacher to assess.
Students prepare a dialogue in class and instead of reading it in front of the class, they record it, post it or send it and everybody listens to it.
8 http://novatores.com/stories/stories.htm (then http://www.readspeeder.com/ ) Teachers' comments: It is a reading task with multiple choice questions. You can also click on some difficult words in bold to find out the meaning.
Students can write their own words or compositions. Then, they can visualize them on the screen.
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary
Checking grammar
1st and 2nd ESO. Start reading a text and stop it to create interest and to assimilate the ideas.
9 http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html Teachers' comments: You can do a piece of writing and then you can produce a cloze test by choosing an option available from the site which allows you to erase the parts of the text you want.
Filling the gaps
You can choose different semantic categories
10 http://www.listen-and-write.com:80/ (try Royal Wedding Draws A Worldwide Crowd (level 11) – choose no. 3 Blank mode) Teachers' comments: I used it with 4th level. It was very useful.
Listening and filling the gaps.
1 www.cueprompter.com Teachers' comments: AGE: It can be adapted for any level.
It could be useful for students to read any kind of activity they have already prepared: dialogues, songs, chants…
In that way they don’t need to hold the materials, like paper, in their hands. This helps them to improve body language and other skills.
-it can help students to improve their reading, listening and writing skills.
2 http://futureme.org Teachers' comments: AGE: Primary level & upper
This resource can be useful for:
• To revise the date (ordinal numbers, month of the year, etc.)
• To learn & check basic vocabulary to write an e-mail (from …, to …, deliver on …, subject…). To achieve basic competences.
• To make the students remember things they have to do in the future.
• To introduce / practise simple future.
• you can use it for writing practice.
3 www.eslvideo.com (look at: http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz.php?id=5909 and
http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz.php?id=5567) Teachers' comments: AGE: according to the objectives to be achieved.
• To practice listening skills.
• To ask questions related to the listening.
• From the teacher’s point of view it’s useful to input your own questions according to the objectives you want to achieve.
-it’s very good for listening practice but with highly-motivated students and with good level.
-As the teacher works through the listening task, (s)he can adjust the questions and tasks to lower levels so that students can successfully complete the tasks.
4 http://busyteacher.org Teachers' comments: AGE: all ages
In this website you can find lots of resources like worksheets already made for you to use (to practice all the skills).
A pretty useful tool for teacher when they need to find extra activities to bring into their lessons.
5 http://iteslj.org/questions/ (then use http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/resources/sentencemix.html) Teachers' comments: AGE: all ages
You can find lots of language: vocabulary, expressions, etc. to practise conversation.
Helping students to develop questioning and getting them involved with speaking.
6 www.howjsay.com Teachers' comments: It is useful for pronunciation and listening. All levels. There is also a dictionary.
7 www.vocaroo.com (listen to: http://vocaroo.com/?media=vVh8X4RfFQvJJVq3L ) Teachers' comments: It is a voice recording service. Students can record their own voice and send it to the teacher to assess.
Students prepare a dialogue in class and instead of reading it in front of the class, they record it, post it or send it and everybody listens to it.
8 http://novatores.com/stories/stories.htm (then http://www.readspeeder.com/ ) Teachers' comments: It is a reading task with multiple choice questions. You can also click on some difficult words in bold to find out the meaning.
Students can write their own words or compositions. Then, they can visualize them on the screen.
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary
Checking grammar
1st and 2nd ESO. Start reading a text and stop it to create interest and to assimilate the ideas.
9 http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html Teachers' comments: You can do a piece of writing and then you can produce a cloze test by choosing an option available from the site which allows you to erase the parts of the text you want.
Filling the gaps
You can choose different semantic categories
10 http://www.listen-and-write.com:80/ (try Royal Wedding Draws A Worldwide Crowd (level 11) – choose no. 3 Blank mode) Teachers' comments: I used it with 4th level. It was very useful.
Listening and filling the gaps.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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