Tuesday 26 February 2008

INSETT - Using ICT for pronunciation

A practical hands-on session giving you time to investigate:
  • ELT pronunciation software
  • interactive web resources for practising sound production, matching pairs, rhymes, limericks and games
  • web-based publishing options, such as vokis and voicethread, for recording and assessing your students' progress
  • using the MP3 recorder and producing podcasts with your classes

ELT pronunciation software
We have the Sky Pronunciation suite installed on Front Office computers which consists of:
  • practising similar sounds - students can record themselves and compare their pronunciation with the original
  • working on word and phrasal stress

Interactive web resources
Here you can find an extensive list of pronunciation web resources
Some favourites from the list:

  • a phonetics site where students can see and hear how the different vowel and consonant sounds are produced (click on American English)
  • mouseovermusic.com where students can move your mouse over the lyrics and hear a song
  • shiporsheep.com where students can practise minimal pairs (similar words where just the vowel sound is different)
  • stress monsters - a game where students can test their knowledge of which syllable is stressed in a word
For primary age kids:
Web-based publishing options:

Producing podcasts

Monday 18 February 2008

Interesting.




Prisoners dilemma at the Council? Mmmm new modes of colloboration? Bring em on!

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Interesting site...

http://www.chinswing.com/

Easy way to create online conversations with your class, not tried it but on the long list.

Saturday 9 February 2008

Some classics of the TEFL world. Enjoy!

Students could simply be asked to comment on them or even come up with there own method. The videos come from a 8 hour 1985 documentary called "The Story Of English". Forget the DELTA just watch this!