8 of the best sites and applications for those who teach, and teaching English

Every year the British Council provides the best educational resources in English Award ELTons. "Theory and Practice" was chosen by 8 most interesting nominees and winners of recent years, and Website publish these sites and applications that are useful to both teachers and those involved in their own language.







Materials for lessons on topical novostyamEtot site can be useful for those who want to integrate into their lessons discuss current events. Every two days, a teacher Sean Benvil lays out new teaching materials based on the news, for example, a recent issue focuses on the phenomenon of Hello Kitty - it turned out that she was a girl, not a cat (as we now know from the words of its creator). The lessons are divided into two categories: a simpler and more complicated. In each of them there are exercises for listening comprehension, dictation and lexical tasks. In addition, Benvil puts free access many other materials developed by them - for example, a compilation of the history of the Presidents of America, learned about famous people and characters in the film.







English korotkometrazhekUchitel using the English language and creator of the website Film English Kieran Donaghy has no doubt that it is with the help of video lessons can be brighter and more interesting. Its correctness is confirmed by statistics visited this site in the month, more than 80,000 teachers come here to download short films and lesson plans for them. The site presents a variety of films: and cheerful vacation in Barcelona, ​​and the problems of British agriculture. Interestingly, in addition to the tasks recommended to perform before and after the viewing of videos, this resource can also be found a short guide to the language of cinema. Donaghy said that one of the skills needed in the XXI century - it is just the ability to view and analyze films and it does not hurt to start to learn at school.





Materials for lessons for people with disabilities If you teach a foreign language, you have a direct opportunity to influence, if not the minds, at least in the awareness of your students in those or other issues. Volunteer project «Disabled Access Friendly» provides teachers with free materials for lessons about the problems of people with disabilities. Covering all levels of the lexical complexity - from the beginner to the most advanced. There are materials for different age groups: for example, for children - the story of a dog who has been denied his feet and which now do not want to play her friends. And for adults - material, analyzing records from Twitter with hashtag #heardwhilstdisabled: they accompany people with disabilities heard in his address discriminatory phrases (such as «So, is your daughter normal then?»).





Teaching students with disleksieyDisleksiya - is selectively impaired ability to learn reading and writing. If students are confused and do not distinguish between words that you think it's time it would be to learn to distinguish, they can be prone to this disorder is. To help them overcome these disorders, we developed a special allowance. It analyzed the dissemination of statistics dyslexia and explained in detail about the methods that facilitate the perception of the language to those exposed to it. For example, to teach students to distinguish between the words «how» and «who», you can resort to Mind-mapping, karaoke songs and new management in its class.





Application to prepare for audirovaniyuTrudno learn to perceive different language accents, if you listen to all the time only one teacher. For example, Texas pronunciation is not like New Zealand, and the Chilean version of the English in general may require additional time to adapt. The creators of the free app Listen Up recorded 10 interview with the English-speaking people from different countries and distributed them on the level of complexity, like a computer game. If you correctly answer questions after listening, the audio file is repeated again and again - not yet fully understand. And only the correct answers to all the tasks, you can go to the next level. Questions, as they say, podkovyrkoy, so even those who know the language, cut will be easy.





Application for an ideal fonetikiEtot resource for those who have the main task - to tighten the pronunciation. The application is also built like a game. As a warm-up, you can listen to the words, and choose from two dissimilar options as they actually are written (for example, «walk» or «woke»). However, the main blow should focus on the part of the game where you have to say for himself. Here are the rules: first you listen to how a native speaker says a word and see its frequency response, and then record yourself and compare your version with source code. By the way, if you specify which language is native for you, the application itself will tell you over the sound of what you need to work in the first place.





Customizable English using muzykiTune Into English, - as the name suggests, this site offers an English tune in and do it through music. It was created by Fergal Kevanah - he is not only a teacher of language, but also works as a DJ in the evenings. In general, it is not surprising that he decided to promote the use of music is to learn the language. After all, music is easy to remember, makes work both hemispheres of the brain and creates a good mood. The site Kevanaha can record dictation lyrics, sing karaoke, find exercises to the texts, and guess what kind of song it is from the diagrams.





Blog Nick Peachy «Daily English Activities» By reading this blog, you will learn about the different ways to practice English daily. For example, at different times in the review Nick Peachy got sites like Dreamdoze (social network of interpreters of dreams), 60 Second Writing Activity, Voscreen (you can upload your videos in English, while other users will be advised that you need to change in pronunciation) Bookoven (teaching look for errors in the texts and to correct them) and the Speech Accent Archive (site to adapt to the different accents).









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