Website of the day: wordmagnet
What is this?
Once download the application to the computer, users can create a space to shift around words which they paste. There are loads of interesting backgrounds with different purposes. Users can play with the language and organize their ideas of sentence structures.
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
World Englih- online quizzes
Website of the day: world English -- online quizzes
What is this?
It is a great website with not only quizzes but loads of learning resources. The website is particularly useful for those teachers who do not have time to make quizzes for every lesson and grammar rules.
Labels:
activity,
English learning,
English news,
Grammar,
online quiz,
reading,
vocabulary
BBC online quizzes
Website of the day: BBC online quizzes - a great website to learn English through interesting activities.
What is this?
It is a excellent website with much resources and various online quizzes with printable versions. It is beneficial for both teachers and learners.
What is this?
It is a excellent website with much resources and various online quizzes with printable versions. It is beneficial for both teachers and learners.
Labels:
activities,
BBC,
English learning,
Games,
Grammar,
online quiz,
reading,
vocabulary
A4ESL-online quizzes
Website of the day: A4ESL - a resourceful online quiz website.
What is this?
It is a good website which provides plenty of online quizzes in different categories like vocabulary and grammar and in various levels of difficulty.
What is this?
It is a good website which provides plenty of online quizzes in different categories like vocabulary and grammar and in various levels of difficulty.
Labels:
activity,
English learning,
exercise,
Grammar,
online quiz,
reading,
vocabulary
Friday, 28 January 2011
wordsift- Learning English in a visual and interesting way with tag clouds
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.

Labels:
English learning,
ICT,
reading,
tag cloud,
vocabulary,
writing
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.
Labels:
activities,
English learning,
lesson plans,
listening,
MP3,
news,
reading,
speaking,
vocabulary,
writing
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Listen-and-Write -- Fantastic website to practice listening!
Website of the day: Listen and write
What is this?
It is a website that we can use to improve listening ability in particular. It contains various video clips and audio files, each of which includes three activities which learners can write down what they have heard: full mode, quick mode, and blank mode.
Labels:
Dictation,
English learning,
listening,
Movies,
videos,
vocabulary,
writing
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