Showing posts with label speaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speaking. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 March 2011

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.

Saturday, 19 February 2011

A interesting webquest- movie review

Website of the day : An great example of webquest ---                                                           Movie Presentation 


What is this?

It is a brilliant webquest suitable for pre-intermediate students to advanced students. The task is to have students present their favorite movie to the whole class in a catchy way, persuading other students to vote for it.

Friday, 18 February 2011

webquest-Willywonka

Website of the day: an interesting example of Webquest
                                   -- Willywonka navigation


What is this?
It is a great and motivating webquest for elementary students. It exemplifies what a normal webquest will cover: introduction, task, process, evaluation, conclusion. Besides, there are two versions of the webquest page. One is for students and the other is for teachers as a teachers' guide page.


Wednesday, 16 February 2011

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.


Sunday, 13 February 2011

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.

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Vocaroo-- Free online recording tool

Website of the day : Vocaroo  - A free on-online voice recording service.



What is this?
It is a free on-line  voice recording service which basically functions just like Internet voicemail.  Users can  record their voice and send  the file to others through email. In addition, they can even embed in the link of their voice file to their blog, publish it to the website and downloaded.

Audioboo --Free onine recording service!

Website of the day:   http://audioboo.fm/


What is this?

It is a great website for both teachers and students to record themselves up up to 5 minutes and share the sound file to one another. Audioboo is also a application which can be downloaded free on smartphohes so that users can record themselves or the sound they hear anytime and anywhere.

Thursday, 27 January 2011

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.       



Wednesday, 26 January 2011

BreakingNewsEnglish: Brilliant teaching resource

Website of the day: BreakingNewsEnglish



What is this?

It is a brilliant website for teachers to teach English news. The news is updated every two or three days. What the teacher have to do is to select a piece of news which will be interesting for their target students and then adopt the activities provided. There are a variety of ready-made activities and they are free of charge.