Roll the cursor over the picture and hear the word...
http://www.languageguide.org/english/esp/
Lots of themes. What more could you ask for?
Perfect for IWB
Monday, 27 October 2008
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Furniture Vocab Game
Help Roger decorate his room!
Nice game with plenty of furniture and descriptive language.
http://www.ur.se/sprk/engelska/inredning/
You can practice first to review the language, designing your own room which can be printed off then you can do a compare and contrast (FCE) with another student or a picture dictation.
The game is to choose the things Roger asks for to decorate his room as quickly as you can, so plenty of compettion element.
Perfect for IWB as teams race against the clock.
Nice game with plenty of furniture and descriptive language.
http://www.ur.se/sprk/engelska/inredning/
You can practice first to review the language, designing your own room which can be printed off then you can do a compare and contrast (FCE) with another student or a picture dictation.
The game is to choose the things Roger asks for to decorate his room as quickly as you can, so plenty of compettion element.
Perfect for IWB as teams race against the clock.
Karaoke Madness!
Had to post this due to popular demand!
http://www.karaokeparty.com/en/
Great and fun way to get them singing (if you can strand it!) and more importantly practicing stress and rhythm!
Thousands of songs, all that cheesy pap your students love and more - I just did Nivarna Smells Like Teen Spirit as well as a bit of Elvis!
Great thing is you score points if you get the timing and pitch right, so plenty of incentive for them to hit those notes.
Enjoy!
http://www.karaokeparty.com/en/
Great and fun way to get them singing (if you can strand it!) and more importantly practicing stress and rhythm!
Thousands of songs, all that cheesy pap your students love and more - I just did Nivarna Smells Like Teen Spirit as well as a bit of Elvis!
Great thing is you score points if you get the timing and pitch right, so plenty of incentive for them to hit those notes.
Enjoy!
Yack Pack
This seems to have potential, especially for those setting up Wikis or Blogs, though as it's online it can be used by anyone.
YackPack
Hard to explain but basically so watch this Video to see it in action
Basically as you can have all your students logged on and talking in real time and everything is recorded.
Or you can just record a message for students for them to answer at homework and they themselves can leave messages for anyone else, which means it's great for collaborative tasks as part of a wiki.
Plenty of scope some great activities, for example the classic jigsaw listening; each students has part of a story and questions which can only be answered by listening to everyone else.
Or just putting on a question which students discuss online, leaving their messages for other to pick up and follow up from. Perfect chance for students to practice those discussion skills and associated language.
Please do add other ideas...
YackPack
Hard to explain but basically so watch this Video to see it in action
Basically as you can have all your students logged on and talking in real time and everything is recorded.
Or you can just record a message for students for them to answer at homework and they themselves can leave messages for anyone else, which means it's great for collaborative tasks as part of a wiki.
Plenty of scope some great activities, for example the classic jigsaw listening; each students has part of a story and questions which can only be answered by listening to everyone else.
Or just putting on a question which students discuss online, leaving their messages for other to pick up and follow up from. Perfect chance for students to practice those discussion skills and associated language.
Please do add other ideas...
Centre Challenge!
Can you beat my score - Geography quiz but higher the score the more cups of water they will donate. Not sure how that works but I assume they put in wells or pipe water to people... anyhow worth 5 minutes of your life!
Fun and scarily authentic computer voice
If your students have done any writings on the computer, why not get them to paste them into one of these sites...
http://text-to-speech-translator.paralink.com/
http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top
and listen to their own words come alive! A little tempremental, but always works after one or two clicks. Impressive English voices - though not too sure on foreign English pronunciation (Spanish, Japanese, etc).
You can even slow down the first site without effecting the voice too much, which might be nice for dictations or dictaglosses which the students themselves could set up for each other.
http://text-to-speech-translator.paralink.com/
http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top
and listen to their own words come alive! A little tempremental, but always works after one or two clicks. Impressive English voices - though not too sure on foreign English pronunciation (Spanish, Japanese, etc).
You can even slow down the first site without effecting the voice too much, which might be nice for dictations or dictaglosses which the students themselves could set up for each other.
Get students to Practice Questions!
Great way to get students to practice asking questions and help with listening too.
Follow LINK and get students to type in any question.
Ideas
Get students to interview her and find out as much as they can then report back to class. Could be used also to practice reported speech.
As she is pretty intelligent you could students to think of general knowledge questions to ask her, try to beat the computer. She knows where Bilbao is, who the first man on the moon was!
I'm sure there are a million and one uses so please to add more to comments as looks like a great and fun tool for students.
Follow LINK and get students to type in any question.
Ideas
Get students to interview her and find out as much as they can then report back to class. Could be used also to practice reported speech.
As she is pretty intelligent you could students to think of general knowledge questions to ask her, try to beat the computer. She knows where Bilbao is, who the first man on the moon was!
I'm sure there are a million and one uses so please to add more to comments as looks like a great and fun tool for students.
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