Wednesday, August 27, 2008

EFL WEB PAGE RESOURCE

Here you have an excellent, entertaining and full of activity page to teach English:


www.cambridge.org/elt/resources




Interaction

This page cannot help you as an EFL teacher to get interaction from your students directly because students only interact with the computer. But you can get interaction by adding some own activities to get interaction from you students, for example, give them time to get their opinions about the activities.


Authentic audience

The page does not give time to get authentic audience incorporated to you classroom, but you are responsible of your success in EFL classrooms. You would invite common people to your classroom, or native English speakers so you would have authentic conversation.



Meaningful activity students



The activities for children are full of colours, sounds and content. As a result you will have meaningful English learning. Students will remember the pictures easily, and most of the content will be useful for common day activities. For instance, learn how to say the time.



Exposure to/ creation of varied language

This page is only in English, so you cannot practice other languages.


Right amount of time/feedback



The exercises on the web page can be always corrected. So, students can get feedback in every circumstances and the activities are sufficiently long in order to get student attention. However, recast is the most used one.


Motivating

From my point of view, this web page is very motivating because students tend to like playing games and learning through different ways of learning. They are used to be bored after an activity that would last long. Nevertheless, most of the activities are short and make them feel confident because it does not matter that they are wrong, they would learn by their mistakes without being assessed.


Students focused



Technological activities are planned for being students focused. Technology is part of the entertainment inside the classroom. Students enjoy it.



Authonomous



Student can perfectly open this page wherever they were by connecting to Internet. No matter if they are inside or outside their school.


Multimodality

You can find listening, reading or writing material on the page. Also, there are a lot of visual and music in order to give multimodality lessons.


Comfortable environment

Shy students will not feel frustration, because they will be showing their answers to a machine. They will feel comfortable enough to answer the question not matter if they are wrong.


Integrate activities

Of course it does. You can hear and see at the same time, or you can also sing an read.


Clear objectives



On this page you will find resources grouped according to subject areas. There are links to resource sites, as well as material of more general interest. To help teacher and students in their improvement. All the activities are guide to get success learning and teaching EFL.



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There is only part of the full activity ready to use. You have to buy it if you want the complete resource.


Speaking exercises are not included in the web page.