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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Learn English in a interactive way!!!!

On this page http://englishinteractive.net/ you can find not only the best pages on the net but also the most fun of them.
It is a easy way to find different kind of activities through internet.

Conditions:

  • Interaction: On this page you can find differents kind of interaction because you can find things for kids and for young people as well, this page leads you to others pages where appears listening, writing, reading and speaking exercises the four skills.
  • Student-Focused: As we were saying during the clases the main point here is the student and teacher works as a guide only, with good instructions this page can be a good tool to teach English autonomous learning.
  • Autonomy: The student have the autonomy to choose between many options that the page gives you, because it is separated in categories (the four skills) and when you click on one of the options this leads you instantaneously through the one that you need.
  • 1Multimodal/2Integrated Skills: As I said before here you can find the four skills in differents types of activities.
  1. LISTENING http://www.lettertv.net/pages/audioalpha.htm
  2. WRITING http://englishinteractive.net/tutor.htm
  3. SPEAKING http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/speaking_situations.html
  4. READING http://www.americanfolklore.net/index.html
  • Motivating: If we want to teach children as weall as a teenagers this is it!! you have too many options for those guys that gives you problems the page have a wide variety of everything and if you use it well good results you may have.
  • Exposure to/Creation of varied language: Everyday conversation and more is what you can find here for student for advanced and kids.
  • Feedback: There are so many pages that congratulates you when you do something right that I believed that is a good way to feedback in terms that if you do something right it repeats you and you received feedback instantaneously!!
  • Appropiate to personalities, styles, intelligences: This page have everything in terms of having, as I said before, a wide variety of activities that every link leads you. So you can find things for kids as well things for teenagers and adults.
  • Meaningful Activities: In the reading part I found this website that shows the American Folklore (link above reading part) and here you can find songs stories and more (cultural things).
  • Authentic Audience: On this pages you can find a lot of new things to learn, like how to speak in certain occasions an so on.
  • Clear Objectives: As this page is categorized in the four skills you can have pretty clear objectives in each, if it is for listening that is what you have american English, Pronunciation, alphabet etc.
  • Comfortable Enviroment: I firmly believe that every teacher is responsible for the creation of a good enviroment in the classroom, give confidence to your student and make them fell that they can do everything!!...



Instructions:

  1. Go to the reading part and click on american folklore, go to myth & legends click on legendary women then click on female ghosts and again click on "La Llorona", read and discuss in pairs how similar is this story in comparison with "La Llorona" of Chile (for basic and intermediate learners)
  2. Go to the listening part and click on letter TV Then go to the Brick Wall part and click on that too and do the activity (for kids only).

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