Showing posts with label listening skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label listening skills. Show all posts

October 27, 2019

Unicef: Summit Ten Cartoons For Children’S Rights

This is a site I spotted a land dorsum in addition to was genuinely impressed by. UNICEF are creating lots of rich media to instruct their message across in addition to the whole of the site is worth exploring if y'all are looking for materials to help y'all tackle merely about to a greater extent than controversial issues.

What's on the site?
  • This is 1 page I works life genuinely useful. On this page y'all tin discovery 10 genuinely useful brusque video cartoons which trace the diverse rights of children. They accept depression in addition to high bandwidth versions, then fifty-fifty if y'all are on equally depression network connecter it would move possible to download the smaller videos inwards a reasonable amount of time. The videos are not verbal, then they could move used amongst lower levels too.

Here's a lesson plan
I had a quick endeavor at creating a lesson innovation for them. This should move usable amongst students who are at an intermediate or higher level.
  • It includes atomic number 82 inwards tasks equally good equally discussion, viewing in addition to follow upward tasks. You could genuinely role merely about bits of it fifty-fifty if y'all can't plough over your students access to the site.
  • You tin download it inwards pdf format from here: Lesson innovation (39k pdf)

If y'all role it, delight come upward dorsum in addition to instruct out a comment hither in addition to experience gratis to instruct out a proposition for whatsoever improvements or variations y'all tin intend of.

Exam Practice

I’ve simply been doing unopen to writing function for a actually useful site called Exam English. The site specialises inwards providing data in addition to gratis do materials for a multifariousness of English linguistic communication language exams including IELTS, TOEFL in addition to the make of Cambridge exams..

The do materials are by in addition to large Flash based in addition to are interactive. They examine a make of skills in addition to grammar, in addition to you lot expire the results at the terminate every mo good every mo the risk to review your answers. Many encompass listening skills amongst professional person lineament recordings for students to heed to.

I’ve simply written 1 for the TOEFL reading newspaper based on a text virtually Robert Capa.
  • You tin essay that out here
I've too written a listening newspaper based on the life of Sylvia Plath
  • You tin heed to that here
There is too a basic score examine which students tin purpose to run into which examine would survive appropriate for them.
  • You tin accept a hold off at it here
On the whole I intend this is a actually useful site amongst unopen to actually useful resources in addition to data in addition to unopen to good designed interactive activities.

June 21, 2006

Unicef: Summit Ten Cartoons For Children’S Rights

This is a site I spotted a land dorsum in addition to was genuinely impressed by. UNICEF are creating lots of rich media to instruct their message across in addition to the whole of the site is worth exploring if y'all are looking for materials to help y'all tackle merely about to a greater extent than controversial issues.

What's on the site?
  • This is 1 page I works life genuinely useful. On this page y'all tin discovery 10 genuinely useful brusque video cartoons which trace the diverse rights of children. They accept depression in addition to high bandwidth versions, then fifty-fifty if y'all are on equally depression network connecter it would move possible to download the smaller videos inwards a reasonable amount of time. The videos are not verbal, then they could move used amongst lower levels too.

Here's a lesson plan
I had a quick endeavor at creating a lesson innovation for them. This should move usable amongst students who are at an intermediate or higher level.
  • It includes atomic number 82 inwards tasks equally good equally discussion, viewing in addition to follow upward tasks. You could genuinely role merely about bits of it fifty-fifty if y'all can't plough over your students access to the site.
  • You tin download it inwards pdf format from here: Lesson innovation (39k pdf)

If y'all role it, delight come upward dorsum in addition to instruct out a comment hither in addition to experience gratis to instruct out a proposition for whatsoever improvements or variations y'all tin intend of.

June 14, 2006

Exam Practice

I’ve simply been doing unopen to writing function for a actually useful site called Exam English. The site specialises inwards providing data in addition to gratis do materials for a multifariousness of English linguistic communication language exams including IELTS, TOEFL in addition to the make of Cambridge exams..

The do materials are by in addition to large Flash based in addition to are interactive. They examine a make of skills in addition to grammar, in addition to you lot expire the results at the terminate every mo good every mo the risk to review your answers. Many encompass listening skills amongst professional person lineament recordings for students to heed to.

I’ve simply written 1 for the TOEFL reading newspaper based on a text virtually Robert Capa.
  • You tin essay that out here
I've too written a listening newspaper based on the life of Sylvia Plath
  • You tin heed to that here
There is too a basic score examine which students tin purpose to run into which examine would survive appropriate for them.
  • You tin accept a hold off at it here
On the whole I intend this is a actually useful site amongst unopen to actually useful resources in addition to data in addition to unopen to good designed interactive activities.

May 13, 2006

Soundscapes From Soundtransit

Sound Transit is a actually wonderful formulation of an idea. It's non simply a huge collection of Mp3 audio files from all over the world, but the sounds create got been tagged yesteryear province together with described together with a visitor to the site tin create got a audio journeying around the world.

 is a actually wonderful formulation of an consider Soundscapes from SoundtransitYou simply select your province of origin, your goal together with how many stops you lot desire to make. You together with therefore larn offered a alternative of itineraries alongside stops at diverse destinations together with descriptions of what you lot volition hear there. You select the 1 you lot desire together with and therefore the site edits together the private sounds to create a unique audio journeying for you. You tin together with therefore download your mp3 audio journey, withdraw heed to it online or shipping it to a friend.
  • To endeavor this larn to the Book a Transit purpose of the site. It's simply similar booking a flying on an airline website (except that it's gratuitous together with a lot to a greater extent than user friendly!!)
Alternatively you lot tin search the database of private files yesteryear country, keyword or creator together with simply download the sounds you lot want. All the sounds are licensed nether creative common 2.0 therefore you lot tin relieve together with reuse them according to the limitations defined yesteryear that license.
How to utilization this alongside students
  • You tin utilization the sounds for visualisations. Get the students to withdraw heed alongside shut eyes together with therefore write nigh what they heard. Or they tin create a storey from what they heard.
  • You could collect 4 or v clips for students to withdraw heed to together with and therefore larn them to create a chapter / episode of a storey around each one.
  • You could utilization them for grammer do ( e.g. introduce continuous "Someone is speaking." etc.)
  • You could larn the students to utilization the site to conception a vacation alongside 4 or v destinations together with therefore utilization the descriptions inwards the itinerary to state what they 'will / are going to' do at each place. They tin together with therefore select the best holiday. For yesteryear tense do they tin tell other students what the did on their vacation piece the students withdraw heed to the sounds.
  • For vocabulary do they could simply withdraw heed together with state the things they hear. This volition in all probability involve a lot of guessing, therefore you lot could extend this for do of modals of probability (e.g. It powerfulness live on somebody eating, It can't live on inwards Argentina. That must live on a auto door etc.)
  • You could utilization this site to plough over students inspiration to collect their ain sounds together with to tell the residue of the shape nigh them. They could fifty-fifty upload them to the site together with portion them.
  • They could create their ain audio journeys ( e.g. Going to school, what they did at the weekend etc.)
  • You could play 'Guess the sound' equally a warmer alongside educatee together with laurels points to each educatee or team.
  • You could inquire students to respect their favourite sounds or verbalize nigh what the sounds remind them of. (e.g. This is 1 of my favourites. It's the telephone phone to prayer. This 1 was recorded inwards Delhi, but it reminds me of when I lived inwards Cairo. I went out to Giza 1 eventide together with listened equally thousands of mosques from all over Cairo erupted inwards to a grand symphony of sound.)
    Listen here
  • You tin utilization the sounds to create atmosphere for storey telling activities or educatee plays
  • You tin play the John Cage game together with simply larn the students to sit down silently together with withdraw heed to the sounds around them inwards the schoolhouse classroom ( for 4 mins together with 33 seconds) together with therefore verbalize nigh what they heard. You could equally good tell them nigh the famous John Cage composition 4'33" later together with inquire them what they cry back of it.
  • You tin play "Where am I?" yesteryear playing them 1 of the sounds together with bespeak them to estimate where you lot are. Try this one. I'm inwards a cafe inwards Moscow getting some coffee
What I liked nigh this site
  • It's a wonderful gratuitous resources alongside a huge collection of sounds.
  • It tin actually larn students thinking nigh the audio surroundings they alive in.
  • I dear the consider that the sounds are tagged to countries together with that students tin majority a audio journey.
  • The creative common license
What I wasn't therefore certain about
  • Some of the audio journeys are quite long if you lot add together a lot of stops
  • Some of the sounds are quite odd together with could require quite a high grade of linguistic communication to describe, but I cry back this simply way that you lot create got to select the action that you lot utilization carefully together with live on selective.
Anyway. This is a site that I actually enjoyed together with I'm immediately determined to operate out together with firstly recording some of my ain audio adventures. As I'm based inwards Kingdom of Morocco I consider I would complete this posting alongside the sounds of the Marrakech market recorded yesteryear Reza Tahami.

To download whatever of the sounds you lot simply demand to correct click together with and therefore click 'Save As..'

Best

Nik

May 7, 2006

Iconic Teen Video

Using video clips amongst teenagers tin locomote enormously motivating for them, IF you lot larn the correct content. Getting the content correct involves taking a await into the lives of our students too finding out what sort of things they are watching.

One of the most high profile examples of this is LonelyGirl15.
LonelyGirl15, which became a Youtube phenomenon, depicted a immature teenage daughter talking to her photographic television set camera too discussing some of the intimate, bizarre too oftentimes incredibly petty issues of her life. The ‘show’, a serial of 2 -4 infinitesimal clips, was shortly attracting audiences of millions too it shortly emerged that it was a ‘fake’ too that the LonelyGirl15 was an actress working amongst a pocket-size cinema crew too script writer.
Since thence the exhibit has transformed into a sort of on going thriller. at that spot is straightaway both a United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland version, KateModern equally good equally the master copy LonelyGirl15 series.
For to a greater extent than data on the plot too background see: LG Pedia

These ii shows furnish a huge potential source authentic linguistic communication equally teenagers inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too North America speak it. It’s too wrapped upward inward a context too genre which teenagers / 20-somethings tin lay to. Though using this stuff isn’t without its pitfalls too drawbacks.

What I similar almost it
  • The clips are short, but self contained too volition download quite quickly.
  • They truly exhibit the agency that English linguistic communication is beingness used yesteryear immature adults.
  • The clips are quite enigmatic too the storey is inferred too implied rather than depicted, thence the stuff tin locomote useful for developing students thinking too deductive skills.
  • Many of them bargain amongst immature people’s issues too attitudes
  • The characters appear similar really ordinary people
  • The clips tin locomote really engaging

Here’s a only a distich of examples, from a collection of hundreds of clips which I mean value could good locomote usable.

From LonelyGirl15: Boy problems



From LonelyGirl15: Parent problems



From KateModern: H5N1 proposal



From KateModern: The order




Some ideas for using this stuff amongst students
  • Students to sentinel a unmarried clip too brand deductions almost the story, what’s been happening to the character, what the relationships are to other people mentioned etc.
  • Students to sentinel dissimilar clips thence construct upward too telephone commutation grapheme data too motility to attain upward one's hear what the relationships are betwixt diverse characters
  • Students persuasion the clip without audio too brand deductions almost the topic too mood of the person
  • Create essence or specific data questions
  • Get your students to sentinel too thence write questions that they would similar to inquire the character
  • Get your students to attain too video their ain reply to i of the characters inward the videos
  • Get your students to sentinel for cultural data too await for things that would locomote dissimilar amongst their ain civilization (clothes, family objects, agency people interact, gestures etc.)
  • Get students to sentinel too compare a clip from the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too the North American serial too lay differences inward the role of language.
  • Get students to sentinel too compare a clip from each serial without audio too await for cultural too environmental differences betwixt United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too North American culture
  • Create give-and-take classes around some of the issues touched on inward the clips
  • Students attain their ain localised version of the series.
What I'm non thence certain about
  • Some of the clips comprise violence too bad linguistic communication too exhibit immature people drinking. This is something you lot mightiness truly emmet to bargain amongst inward class, or avoid altogether, thence locomote careful which clips you lot choose.
  • You mightiness convey to locomote prepared to defend your role of this sort of stuff if your students larn habitation too foremost watching it inward front end of their parents
  • Much equally I uncovering this persuasion into the the world of 'young people today' (Did I truly write that?) quite intriguing I too uncovering it slightly disturbing
Anyway, whether nosotros similar this sort of content or not, it does appear to locomote the sort of matter that is becoming increasingly pop equally meshing entertainment, too if nosotros truly desire to engage amongst our students too engage them inward our classes, I don't mean value nosotros tin afford to ignore it.

I would too honey to hear from anyone who has been using LonelyGirl15 or KateModern amongst your classes, thence delight ship service a comment too portion your experience.

Best

Nik

May 6, 2006

Pronunciation Goes 2.0

I've been looking this calendar week at Forvo, which is a variety of spider web 2.0 pronunciation site. The site allows users to request, together with add together sound clips of the pronunciation of dissimilar words from a huge range of languages, therefore if you lot desire to know how a give-and-take is pronounced you lot tin give the axe either create a quick slow search for the give-and-take together with and therefore psyche to it, or if the give-and-take isn't already inside the database, you lot tin give the axe add together it together with asking a pronunciation.

 together with add together sound clips of the pronunciation of dissimilar words from a huge  Pronunciation goes 2.0The site also categorises words into lexical areas such every bit brands, acronyms, sports etc which is really handy

You tin give the axe too live on helpful together with add together the pronunciation to words which accept been requested inwards your language.

The site offering gratis registration, precisely you lot tin give the axe discovery words, asking words together with pronounce words without registering. The create goodness of registration is that you'll live on notified when individual pronounces your give-and-take for you.

What I similar nearly it
  • It's a peachy visit together with it's free
  • Very slow to locomote interface
  • Lots of dissimilar languages
  • Sound clips charge speedily together with a reasonably adept quality
  • Registration isn't required
  • Potentially a huge together with growing resource

What I'm non therefore certain about
  • Like most things on the web, specially Web 2.0, you lot can't live on certain of the character or authenticity of what you lot are getting, therefore if you lot are using this alongside students cheque out the words they are subsequently together with build certain the character of the pronunciation is adept (My litmus exam was 'aluminium' together with it experience somewhere betwixt the U.K. together with the United States versions)
  • Watch out for students who desire to pronounce the (four letter) words that they shouldn't live on using (though in all likelihood improve for them to pronounce them good than badly)
  • It would live on actually prissy to accept regional variations of the pronunciation, precisely I gauge that's broadening out the sum of piece of job a flake far.

How to locomote this alongside students
  • This is a prissy self access resources for students to cheque their pronunciation
  • You could give students a listing of words together with teach them to discovery out how they are pronounced
  • Get students to add together some words that they desire to live on able to pronounce
  • Use the site to dictate words field students listen, together with therefore teach them to teach to the site together with cheque that they accept got the correct words
This is a actually prissy application of the Web 2.0 concept to pronunciation together with it volition live on actually interesting to run into how this site grows together with develops.

Hope you lot savor it together with tin give the axe teach your students involved.

Best

Nik

May 1, 2006

Using Production Reviews

Product review sites are becoming ever to a greater extent than pop on the internet, too why non later all? If you lot are going to pass coin buying something, it's ever a skillful thought to encounter what other people who bought that same production recall of it.

ExpoTV is only that sort of site. It has a collection of, by too large abode made, video clips made past times ordinary people, by too large from North America, talking close the products they convey bought. There is a huge collection of stuff hither on a whole attain of products from estimator accessories to clothing, brand up, cars, video games, children's toys too fifty-fifty trucks!

Here's an instance production review. This i is of i of my favourite products, Apple's i-pod touch




What I liked close the site
  • The clips are reasonably curt too download quite quickly.
  • It's gratuitous too you lot don't convey to register unless you lot desire to add together comments or upload your ain video.
  • The site is rich amongst the kinds of linguistic communication too vocabulary that students detect quite useful inwards their 'real lives' particularly if they exercise convey to purchase things from websites or spell traveling inwards an English linguistic communication speaking country.
  • The videos are made past times existent people hence the stuff is really authentic amongst a broad multifariousness of voices too accents.
  • The site is good designed amongst a skillful search facility, hence it's tardily to detect the kinds of products you lot are looking for.
  • There is a brief guideline on how to brand a skillful production review hither which students tin utilisation every bit a guide. Also some how to video clips that are handy.
  • There is a bully potential hither for existent tasks every bit registered users tin submit their ain video reviews too fifty-fifty brand coin from them!! (I would go really careful close advising students to exercise this)
  • There's an embed code for each video hence if you lot don't desire students wandering around the site, or if you lot desire to utilisation alone specific clips you lot tin choose handgrip of the embed code ( every bit I convey above) too only add together the clip to a blog, spider web page or tidings processing document.

How should nosotros utilisation this amongst students?
  • Get students to picket videos of a type of production too determine which i they would purchase too why / which ones they wouldn't desire to buy.
  • Get students to create their ain production video too include all the relevant data (this could go done really easily using anything they convey amongst them inwards shape from shoes to stationary, phones bags etc.) If your students don't convey access to a video camera, you lot could all the same teach them to exercise this for each other inwards shape every bit a sort of curt presentation. You could fifty-fifty enter competitive too encounter who tin best convince the shape to purchase their shoes or telephone etc.
  • Get the students to picket iii or iv clips too brand notes of fundamental data close each product. They could hence percentage this data inwards minor groups too determine on the best product.
  • Give pairs or minor groups of students a budget too a shopping listing too inquire them to select the best collection of products inside their budget. They should hence utilisation the production data to justify their choices.
  • Ask the students to brand notes of fundamental tidings or phrases / judgement structures used when describing products
  • Get some pictures of products too teach students to picket / heed to i clip too determine which production was beingness described.
  • Prepare a listing of production features from a selection of videos, hence teach the students to picket the videos too jibe the features to the product.
  • Give students a selection of clips to picket too inquire them to determine which was the best made clip. Ask them to determine why. (This is a skillful activeness to get-go amongst if you lot intend to teach students to brand their ain clips or presentations)
  • Have a shape give-and-take close production review websites. Here's some possible give-and-take questions.
    • Have you lot ever used a site similar this before?
    • Do you lot recall the sites are useful?
    • Do you lot know of whatever skillful sites similar this (in English linguistic communication or other languages)?
    • Are the reviews unbiased?
    • How much confidence exercise they convey inwards such sites?
    • Why exercise people add together videos to sites similar these?
    • How exercise the sites brand their money?
    • Why exercise they pay people to brand video clips?
    • Would you lot brand a review of a bad product? Why / Why not?
What I wasn't hence certain about
  • Students tin submit their ain videos too teach paid for them, but I would go really wary of encouraging this particularly for younger students. Be certain to protect your students privacy too personal data too cheque on whatever damage of utilisation earlier letting them register on this or whatever other website.
  • The site carries a lot of advertising hence go wary of letting students click circular all over the place. It may good go ameliorate to create your ain page that alone uses the clips you lot convey selected embedded into the page (especially for younger students).
  • Students should go aware of the fact that non all the data given inwards the video is necessarily correct. These are only amateur video makers giving their opinion.

On the whole I recall that sites similar this are a actually useful root of authentic materials, existent linguistic communication utilisation too authentic existent life tasks that tin go useful to students beyond the classroom.

there are some things to go wary of when using them, but on the whole I recall making students aware of the possible dangers, traps too pitfalls, is a valuable operate of their instruction inwards itself, hence I don't encounter this a argue non to utilisation these sites.

Well I promise you lot detect these tips useful, too delight exercise add together a comment if you lot convey whatever other ideas for using production review websites, or if you lot convey used them amongst your students.

Here's the URL of the site inwards instance you lot missed it: http://www.expotv.com

Best

Nik Peachey

April 27, 2006

Dictation Goes Spider Web 2.0

Yes too why not? Seems hard to come across how this would live on accomplished precisely it sure enough does seem to live on the illustration at the Listen too Write - Dictation website. What's to a greater extent than it seems to create got been done inward a pretty impressive agency too.

This site features quite a seat out of good files all of which tin live on accessed through quite a cleverly designed dictation activity. The users larn to head to parts of a judgement too they too hence create got to type inward the words of the judgement to a text champaign which alone allows the words if they are correct. They are able to head over too also larn some assistance yesteryear setting the activity to automobile consummate the words every bit they type them inward (cuts downwardly on the frustration for EFL students of non beingness able to piece what yous tin hear).

The other overnice seem of it is that yous larn a score every bit yous larn too hence yous tin move against yourself to attempt to ameliorate the score.

But where's the Web 2.0 bit?
Well anyone who registers tin link to an good file for role inward the activities. As a registered user yous tin also accept on the business of adding the transcript etc. This tin live on a smashing agency of sharing what must live on quite a lot of work. Anyway, sentry this video to come across it inward action.



How to role this amongst students
  • Just your EFL students registered too sit down them amongst some headphones to move through a few dictations
  • Get your students to add together some good files that they would similar turned into dictation activities
  • Add some of your ain good too transcripts that yous desire students to move on

What I similar nigh it
  • This is actually practiced complimentary listening do for students
  • Great for role inward a media see or to gear upward listening homework for students to produce on their ain (they tin enjoin yous their scores inward class)
  • Nicely designed activity amongst good sentiment out prompts
  • Great that it plans to include other languages
  • Great that the move charge is beingness shared out too that users tin add together links to audios they desire somebody to transcribe
  • The texts create got been leveled according to difficulty
What I'm non hence sure about
  • I didn't care to detect a privacy policy on the site, hence I wonder what they produce amongst my information 1 time they create got it!
  • Most of the texts are quite high score too grabbed from Voice of America news, hence are also on some quite heavy intelligence topics.
  • Some to a greater extent than exercise types would live on great, though they may live on coming
  • I wonder who is going to live on willing to seat the fourth dimension into transcribing the good files (bit cynical I know precisely teachers are seldom sitting around amongst a lot of fourth dimension on their hands)

On the whole I mean value this is a actually simple, precisely actually smashing idea. This site has huge potential for linguistic communication evolution too I promise the the people at Listen too Write tin croak on this going too that your students detect it actually useful.

Best

Nik Peachey

April 21, 2006

Karaoke Alongside A Social Network

Well it had to happen! As every other sort of site these days has a social network attached to it, why non karaoke too? As every other sort of site these days has a social network attached to it Karaoke amongst a Social NetworkThe site I've been looking at is called RedKaraoke together with it has quite a few useful features. There isn't a huge gain of songs in that place yet, exactly users tin upload their own, it also has a spider web cam characteristic thus for potential singers who desire to hold upwardly seen equally good equally heard you lot tin direct maintain your spider web cam hooked upwardly land you lot sing.

As amongst most karaoke, in that place are background tracks together with you lot run into the words of the lyrics highlighted equally you lot are supposed to sing them. You tin charge per unit of measurement other singers also together with direct maintain your ain profile equally good equally direct maintain role inwards forums (mainly used for technical back upwardly yesteryear the looks of things) together with there's also synchronous chat too.

 As every other sort of site these days has a social network attached to it Karaoke amongst a Social NetworkClick ikon to enlarge

The high ranking singers acquire pushed to the top, together with if you lot similar someone you lot tin exit encouraging messages of support.

So why work this amongst EFL students?
Anyone who has ever taught a EFL / ELT volition know how powerful together with motivating music together with vocal tin hold upwardly to assistance students acquire language, thus sites similar this tin hold upwardly actually useful.

  • If your students are interested inwards music together with singing, you lot tin acquire them along to the site to tape a few of their favourite songs (Onlye the to a greater extent than confident students though)
  • You tin acquire students to psyche together with charge per unit of measurement other singers also together with exit messages for them if they similar them (though don't encourage messages to singers they don't like)
  • The site has the words together with music to quite few songs, thus fifty-fifty if your students don't experience confident plenty to tape themsleves, they could even thus acquire some practise inwards the privacy of their ain homes.
  • If students create tape themselves you lot tin acquire them to charge per unit of measurement each other together with run into if whatever of your students tin acquire into the locomote yesteryear ranking list.
What I similar almost it
  • Well equally ever for me the root attraction is that it's free.
  • There are a gain of songs together with it's non all inwards English, thus if you lot are education or learning other languages together with then in that place is potential cloth here.
  • I similar that you lot tin direct maintain the spider web cam recording too.
  • The interface is quite slow to acquire around uncomplicated to use.
What I wasn't thus certain about
  • I intend this is going to hold upwardly pretty bandwidth hungry, peculiarly if you lot are using a spider web cam too, thus solely ane for broadband users working lone from home.
  • The character of some of the audio files wasn't thus great, exactly that's e'er going to hold upwardly the illustration amongst Web 2.0 type content.
  • Looks from the forum similar a few people direct maintain had problems amongst getting their recording synchronised, though I'm guessing that switching off the wqebcam would assistance amongst this.
  • As amongst whatever site where students are asked to register together with add together a profile, hold upwardly certain your students know how to protect their pivacy together with personal information.
In theory, if you lot direct maintain students who similar karaoke, this could hold upwardly a potentially rattling useful site. To hold upwardly honest I'm non a bang-up fan of the fine art together with direct maintain to acknowledge that I didn't brand recording myslef, exactly idea I would part the site anyway, equally I know some teachers together with students actually relish it.

Hers the ful URL of the site: http://www.redkaraoke.com/

Hope you lot uncovering this useful

Best

Nik Peachey

April 19, 2006

Video Conferencing For Efl

It's non oftentimes that you lot expect at a production as well as intend 'Ah! That's just what I've been looking for! And it's free!' But SnapYap which I reviewed a calendar week or 2 back, when I saw Make your ain chat room

April 17, 2006

Sending Bubble Joy To Your Efl / Esl Students

It's amazing how y'all tin pass ages looking for something y'all desire in addition to hence when y'all discovery it a whole bunch of other things come upwards along amongst it. That seems to hold upwards the mode things bring happened for me amongst video conferencing. I industrial plant life in addition to posted near tokbox terminal calendar week in addition to hence came Bubble Comment this calendar week which I wrote near on my Video conferencing for EFL volition besides piece of occupation amongst Bubble Joy, only hold upwards certain to think that amongst Bubble Joy y'all exclusively bring threescore seconds, in addition to the video carte expires subsequently it has been viewed fifty times.
  • You could besides endeavour using it for specific occasions (there are cards specifically for Christmas, Easter, Valentines etc.)
  • You could besides larn students to practise messages that check the other themes (What would y'all tell from within a lion's mouth, within a shark, on safari) in addition to hence construct a even out to become amongst the cards explaining why this happened.
  • Students could besides computer program an imaginary vacation in addition to hence ship a carte to order other equally near it (on safari, riding inwards a hot air balloon etc.)
  • Students could operate i of the TV or phase designs to plow over a brief intelligence report. They could each written report on their 24-hour interval inwards bird or what they did on holiday, at the weekend or on a bird visit.
  • They could operate the phase or TV designs to tape a joke each in addition to hence ship them circular in addition to vote on the best one.
  • The cocktail drinking glass carte could hold upwards used to practise warnings against the dangers of alcohol.
  • Great Video Commenting Tool
    Video conferencing for EFL
    Send Free Video Messages

    Best

    Nik Peachey

    April 13, 2006

    Text To Spoken Language For Efl Esl Materials

    Text to Speech (TTS) applied scientific discipline has come upwards a long agency inwards recent years as well as this is nowhere to a greater extent than evident than on the Dictation goes Web 2.0
  • Artificial Intelligence Chat bots as well as EFL ESL
  • Activities for students:
    Best

    Nik Peachey

    April 4, 2006

    Exploiting A Video Viral

    For a long fourth dimension straight off I've been fascinated amongst viral marketing campaigns in addition to the trend advertisers role these to promote their products. What's actually interesting almost them is the advertisers mightiness to come upward up amongst actually new in addition to master ideas to capture our attending in addition to brand us desire to part amongst others. Animated EFL ESL Writing Prompts)
    • Ask students if they tin plow over the axe mean value of whatsoever existent celebrities whose floor is like to this. Get them to tell the flat or write the floor of a like celebrity.

    Best

    Nik Peachey

    March 4, 2006

    Get Your Students Listening In Addition To Interacting Alongside Native Speakers

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