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.      

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wordle

Today's website: Wordle

What is this? 

It is a fun and interesting tool which generate word clouds from a piece of text. Wordle not only creates an artitic image of word clouds but also extracts the most commonly occuring words from the specific text or website. It is simple and easy to use that users only  have to paste a text or add the URL of a blog, the RSS Feed of a webpage. Besides, Wordle also provides a variety of options in terms of layout, color, font.

It is suitatble for both teachers and students to create their own unique word clouds in language classroom. 

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.

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.

Todaysmeet - Online discussion space!

Website of the day: Todaysmeet

Todaysmeet.com

What is this?

It is a free chat room service that allows users to create an instant back channel for either a classroom or presentation. It’s simple, easy and free of charge. To create the chat room, you only have to type in the name for your room, which later will become the particular URL of your chat room, and select the length of time you would like to have the chat room exist. Afterwards, all you have to do is to give the URL to your students.   

lyricstraining-Practice listening and having fun!

Today's website: Lyrics training

What is this?

It’s an excellent websites with many popular music videos whereby students can enjoy listening to their favorite songs while typing the lyrics they just heard. In every music video of the website, there are three modes of exercises based on the levels of students: beginner, intermediate, or expert.  Teachers no longer have to print out the lyrics or press the buttons on the CD player again and again to find the certain parts of the song.

              

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.