Elllo -- English Language Listening Library Online

Website of the day: Elllo

What is this?

Elllo is a really fantastic website with over 1000 free listening practices and activities with pictures, videos, downladable MP 3 and much more. These practices are extremely helpful for students and teachers. What makes the listening resource unique is that the speakers of these listening practice come from all over the world with different accents. Besides, the genres of listening practice include interviews in audio or video format, conversation, casual talk or speech.

A fun cartoon making site-- Zimmer Twins

Website of the day: Zimmer Twins

What is this?

It is an interesting website devoted to children for making animated stories. Students can make their own animation, adding the dialogues and on-screen text.

Webquest--An alternative way to learn English through a project

What is this?

According to the founder of WebQuest fromWebQuest.org, "a  WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web." Generally speaking, a webquest is composed of 6 parts: introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion. Teachers can either create their own webquests or adopt those available webquests shared by others. Depending on the task of each webquest, students might have to give a presentation, design a website, write a report and so on.

MailVU-- Making Videomail!

Website of the day:  mailVU : making and sending video emails easily.

What is this?

MailVU is a online service which allows the users to record a video email up to 10 minutes, enter an email address of the recipient with a short text message, and send the video email.

Wordia--Let people tell you what the words means!

Today's website: Wordia

What is it about?

It is a brilliant unique and interesting on-line dictionary for intermediate to advanced English learners to learn vocabulary. As the slogan of the website goes, Wordia “bring words to life”. This website provides not only standard definitions of words from Collins English Electronic Dictionary (Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008) but also videos in which both famous and ordinary people can give their own definitions and connotations of words.

wordsift- Learning English in a visual and interesting way with tag clouds

Today's website: wordsift

What is this?



It is an excellent tool to learn English in a playful and interesting way. It can automatically select the most important words from a text and then transfer them to a map of tag cloud. When clicking each tag, students can easily check the meaning, synonyms or its relationship with other words by the online dictionary “Visual Thesaurus”, which is combined in the website. Besides, there are also some pictures in association with every tagged word.  

The website is suitable for every English teacher.

Ted: Ideas worth spreading

Today's website: TED: ideas worth spreading

Source: http://www.ted.com/

 What is this?

It is an amazing website with over 700 best talks, which are subtitled in English and even in other various languages. Originally, the talks are given by great people in the field Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED). However, the website now has more topics other than the three fields. These videos are freely shared and reposted so that English teachers can use the video clips on the website to amplify the depth and width of our teaching materials.