LEARN AND PRACTICE ENGLISH WITH ELLLO

Hi Everyone! For this week's project, we are supposed to introduce an ELT website specifically designed for language learners of English. The website that I will try to introduce is ELLLO.

ELLLO is about learning and practising English especially vocabulary, listening and reading. Since it offers level options, it can be useful for beginner, intermediate and advanced level English learners. It is created by Todd BEUCKENS who is an English teacher in Japan.  It has listening samples of English speakers from around the world with transcriptions and interactive quizzes. The purpose of the site is to engage learners' interest, and motivate them.

You can see lots of listening activities. You can get over 2.300 free lessons!
You can check out newest lessons on Elllo!
At beginner level, the audio is slower with basic words.
At intermediate level, the language is natural speed.
At advanced level, topics and vocabularies are more difficult. 

You can choose any videos or audios. 

If you need while listening, you can get audio script and vocabularies.

You can check and improve your vocabulary, listening or reading skills with the quizzes below and you can rely on them.

I think it is very useful site for learners. It has especially two characteristics I really liked: 

• Firstly, it gives you lots of quizzes.
• Secondly, it gives you level options in lessons and exercises so it is appropriate for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners.

I  would recommend to use Elllo website since it is very helpful to develop students' listening, reading and pronunciation skills. It shapes the students' sense of feeling to become a social and active people and more critical thinkers. Moreover, I would definitely suggest teachers to recommend this website to their students to practice their English. The students can access it easily and they can find lots of contents such as education, health, sport, science and politics in this website. 

If you ask me why we must use Elllo, I can say "Tell me more... I am all ears."

If you wish to learn how to use Elllo, you can watch the video below.

                                     

Feedreader Online

Hi everyone! This week I am going to introduce an online reader which is used for following blogs regularly: Feedreader Online.

If you don't wish to install on your pc, you can use Feedreader Online which is a simple and free RSS reader. You can read or organize news and updates from all your favourite websites in one place. 

The process for signing in is very easy. You can start to use Feedreader Online through your Facebook or your Gmail. You just need to enter your user name and password, then you can find your blogs you wish for.

It has two types of viewing modes: 

• First one is Starred Items which are used for saving RSS feed items.
• Second one is a filter (Show unreaad) which is used for displaying unread items.

I follow lots of blogs and I will keep following them . One of my favourite one is Busy Taecher. This blog offers you worksheets, articles, posters, books, flashcards and so on. In detail it offers grammar,reading, pronunciation, vocabulary, listening, speaking, writing and their subcategories. You can benefit from it thanks to its rich content as a teacher. Teachers easily get papers of  these activities and hand them out to students and it is totally free.

Writing A Film Review - The Wiki Project

Hey there!

After the podcast project, this week we have been introduced to the Wiki projects. As a class we have a Wiki page called “Film Reviews for Magazines”. We have our own page with the name of our films, Dead Poets Society. Here, in this project I worked with Berna.

Creating a Wiki page is very easy, it takes just a few minutes to create it. You just need to enter your user name and password. Then you will have the authority to create, edit or delete.

Advantages of creating wiki are it encourages you a wide investigation and it improves writing and analysing. Difficulties of creating a wiki are you can give some misinformation to the people and it can be time consuming because you have to make a wide investigation.

Here, you can find the link of my wiki. Enjoy it!

MILESTONE

Hello everyone! This week, we are supposed to create a sound rich story and narrate it together. My friend Berna and I prepared a podcast using Vocaroo- Online voice recorder.
The story is about the destruction of an ordinary day. One day, while Emily and Rick are walking in the park, they hear a loud scream and then all the cases happen.

It was our first podcast. It wasn't difficult, in fact we had fun during the project. It was so bizarre to listen our voices from the record.

In foreign language classrooms, preparing podcasts is a great activity for students. You need more time, energy and creativity while creating podcast. It is an easy way to teach language and it is a funny project. Moreover, it grabs chidren's attention. Sound effects make the podcast more attractive and fun. Such a task would be suitable for students whose level is B1 roughly.

-Here you can find the script- 

It was such a lovely sunny day. We were walking in the park. When suddenly we heard a loud scream. Then we turned back to the lake side. A man whose face covered with blood was running towards us in terror. The worse, a Zombie was chasing the man screaming out loud. At that very moment, my boyfriend Rick passed out as we met the Zombie's eye. Upon realizing the case, someone from the crew called 9-1-1 urgently. After the first intervention, the ambulance made tracks for hospital. Unfortunately Rick passed away before arriving the hospital.
As a twist of fate, the actor acting just like Zombie came to light as a friend of ours.
After all, our friend started to see Rick whenever he looked in a mirror and this was the reason he went nuts.
This is the case that Emily made a statement to a well-known newspaper.
Two days after this report, Emily committed suicide by throwing herself off a bridge.


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