Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Games at a glance for ESL

http://www.manythings.org/

Here is a website that you as a teacher can go to really quick to get any kind of game from vocabulary to pronunciation anything.

They offer many different levels as well. This site is good for anyone who wants to add a game to their lesson or wants to have a fun game day!

Some of the games are hard to understand but they can be adapted. The idea is there and so they can be worked from there.

Some of the games can be played on the computer and others are a printout idea or cards to be printed or a worksheet type of game. But there is so much to choose from. Make sure that you spend some time looking before you just go to it.

This site could be overwhelming for students so the teacher should go first and have the instructions for students because it exceeds the three click rule.

Have fun with it though and there is lots to choose from!

Games at a glance for ESL

http://www.manythings.org/

Here is a website that you as a teacher can go to really quick to get any kind of game from vocabulary to pronunciation anything.

They offer many different levels as well. This site is good for anyone who wants to add a game to their lesson or wants to have a fun game day!

Some of the games are hard to understand but they can be adapted. The idea is there and so they can be worked from there.

Some of the games can be played on the computer and others are a printout idea or cards to be printed or a worksheet type of game. But there is so much to choose from. Make sure that you spend some time looking before you just go to it.

This site could be overwhelming for students so the teacher should go first and have the instructions for students because it exceeds the three click rule.

Have fun with it though and there is lots to choose from!

Using the CBC for ESL classes

http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/esl/lessons.html

This is a great way for students to practice listening and do some reading comprehension. It caters to all levels which is great for a LINC environment. There are lots of lessons to choose from and the lessons could be used to build schemta for students who do not know anything about the topic at hand.
I used this site before my students went to the sugar bush so they had more of an understanding of where maple sugar came from and what they would see when they got to the patch.

It is an interactive site in that you can read what you are listening too and you can answer the questions right on the site as well.

Students really enjoyed the site and I had them coming back to me the next day telling me that they checked out some more on their own time and really enjoyed all that they were learning.