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

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

click N learn. Ready?

Hello and greetings to all.

Click. Click. Click. n LEARN. As easy as the name, so do the website! Click n Learn is a Spanish website that provides learners with different level of English proficiency some language activities. There are many activities to choose from and teachers can select any activities to suit his/her students' age and level of English. The good thing about the website is it is very visual. There are a lot of fancy animations that can get students engage and attach to the website. Some of the activities come with sounds too. For each topic's chosen, there will be several sub-activities and games once you click it ( it's click N learn by the way :)













So, that left us with a question. HOW ARE TEACHERS GOING TO USE clickNlearn?
  • For obvious reason, teachers can use it to teach grammar form,function as the website provide us with endless games and activities.
  • Set it as a homework. Foster / encourage autonomous learning. Students may be assigned a task later on to present their findings.

I love clickNlearn because:

  • Free
  • Full of animation
  • Many activities
  • Contexts are variety
  • Organisation of the activities are quite good. It's easy to understand.
  • The activities can be printed!
  • Integrating skills in some of the exercises where some of it are useful for reading and writing.

I don't like it for some reasons:

  • Some of the activities does not provide a clear instruction or no instruction at all. Besides, the instructions are in Spanish so it is difficult to understand it.
  • The sound effects are too exaggerating. It is distracting and I found it very annoying.
  • There are too many sound effects but the activities does not have any listening activities. (What a shame)

Till then, happy good day everyone!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Just The Word: Concordance.

Hello Sweethearts,

Oh, PLEASE bear with me again because today I am going to show you a new website called Just The Word~ (JTW). As we all know, words are important in our life. It forms a language that we speak and listen. Words in English especially can be confusing especially when it comes to differentiating its functions, form whether it is used as noun, verb, or preposition (just to name a few). However, with the advancement of technology, we are able to do this instantly by using JTW!

JTW is very useful for English learners to know and to improve their knowledge on English grammar. There are two options for this tool, it's either you choose Thesaurus or Learner Errors. There are in facts so many words that can be searched and according to Rocky,T. (2011), there are about 80,000,000 words of the British National Corpus (BNC).
To illustrate some of the examples of how to use the website, I will show you some of the snapshots from the website.

http://www.just-the-word.com/



Picture 1: Enter any words or phrase. Here I key in the word "refill". Choose thesaurus and click combinations.



Picture 2: List of concordance from Nouns, Verbs etc. Click to one of the list highlighted in the red box.



Picture 3: There you have, a list of how to construct sentences using the word refill... glass.


The advantages:
  1. Free
  2. A lot of examples of the chosen words
  3. User-friendly. Easy to use.


That's all for now! :)