Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

wordmagnet- an interesting tool to learn vocabulary

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.      

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.  

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.

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.

Friday, 28 January 2011

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.




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.


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.