What is this?
To access it ->breakingnewsenglish
Breaking news English is an absolute phenomenal website which provides us with thousands of readily available lesson tailored for EFL teaching context. More importantly, all those great lessons are free and a new lesson is updated every 3 days.On top of that, all the lessons and listening recordings can be downloaded for free in no time!
Why is the content good for language learning?
1.All the lessons are created based on the latest news and information, which can surely appeal to the students.
2.It can spare the teachers huge amount of time preparing for a lesson, thus allowing the teaching making better use of the preparation time.
3.There are loads of different kinds of exercise, aiming of enhancing students English from different aspects like speaking, listening, reading and writing.
4.Some of the exercise are fairly collaborative, thus making the classroom's atmosphere more interactive and relaxing.
How might you use it in a teaching context?
1.Choose a chunk of exercise from the lesson related to a certain topic for your class to do some warm-up activities and brainstorming with the students.
2.Expanding students vocabulary by giving them exercise of matching synonyms from a certain lesson on Breaking News English.
3.Engage the students into pairs or groups to do some of the reading exercise together.
4.Assign the students to work in groups to design a unique lesson based on the pattern on the website. In this way, the students have to understand the text thoroughly.
Limitations:
1.It can be extremely time-consuming.
2.The text form is a bit humdrum and can be pretty boring for the students if they have to do it every time.
3.There are not much pictures or other visual attractions in the lesson.
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Sunday, 12 February 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
A very simple and tentative webquest created by Cindy and me....
Press
here to go to our -->WebquestWebquest
What is
this?
Webquest is a fantastic website introduced by Tilly. With thousands of readily available webquests on this site, it is both time-saving and user-friendly for teachers and students. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.
Why is
the content good for language learning?
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1.There
are loads of reading material in English which can facilitate students'
skimming and scanning reading skills.
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2.There
are questions which require students' critical thinking in English
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3.Pictures
are added to each page,making it interesting for the learners.
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How might you
use it in a language teaching context?
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1.As a
teacher, create a webquest myself and ask the students to finish the task in
groups.
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2.Assign the
students to work collaboratively and exchange their findings.
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3.Ask the
students to create their own webquests concerning a certain topic discussed in
class.
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Limitations:
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1. reading
material might be too much
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2. too
time-consuming
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3.students
might easily get distracted by other information online
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