A GREAT WEBSITE TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE SKILLS

Hi everybody ! :)
You know, we can improve our language skills thanks to technology and there are so many efficient websites for ESL learners and teachers. This week I want to tell you about one of them : Easy World of English. 

Easy World of English was designed by a a group of young experienced teachers with the leadership of Marco Castillo. They want to allow us to learn English in an easy and comfortable way.
Their mission is to facilitate communication through better understanding and use of English through their multi-media online website. They has been designed it to help the students and teachers.
The website has four main heading : Grammar , Pronunciation, Readings and Picture Dictionary.

The Grammar section is based on three levels. Each grammar lesson begins with an explanation part and then, gives so many examples. You can see and listen the example sentences in different forms. There is a quiz at the end of the lesson to check your understanding. If your score is less than %80, they recommennd you to repeat the quiz.

The Pronunciation section is divided into 6 main units : Alphabet, Minimal Pairs, Numbers, T&D Sounds, Special endings and Verbs.
Students can improve their pronunciation skills by listening and repeating.

The Readings section is divided into beginner, intermediate and upper-intermediate levels. The readings were selected from common topics, expressions and general vocabulary used in The United States. Each reading passage can be listened. So, the students improve their listening skill at the same time. The passages include quizzes to check students' comprehension.

Finally, The Picture Dictionary has been divided into fourty-seven themes including commonly used words illustrated pictures and accompanied by pronunciation. The site enhances students' vocabulary learning process by providing both visual and audial items. So, the students can improve their pronunciation,  spelling and vocabulary progress.




Consequently, I like EWE and recommend it to the teachers. It is a good resource to help the students' English language skills. Especially the EFL teachers who have a smartboard or delineascope in their classrooms can use this website efficiently in reading, vocabulary and listening activities. 

DO YOU KNOW RSS ?

Hi everybody! You're going to read something about Rss on this post ! :)

I think you saw the orange symbol of RSS so many times but you don't know what it represents. I want to explain it to you with a concrete example. :) Well, you like reading blogs and you visit them from time to time. When you write the link of one of the blogs on the adress bar or click on the bookmark , you don't know if the blogger have shared any new post or not. Then, you do the same things for the other blogs. But you aren't aware of the time wasted. So, you do some research about this problem and find out RSS :) After that, you can follow new posts on the sites that you want to follow.
There are so many RSS Readers. I use an online reader service, Feed Reader. I write the blogs' names and then, i can see the new feeds on them.

                                                                                     The blogs that I want to follow 

WIKI PROJECT

Hello everybody ! :)

This week, Özgenur and me want to share our Wiki project. We were supposed to prepare a film review for the magazines on wikispace. So, we created a wiki page which includes some information and our recommendations about Three Idiots. This activity was enjoyable but a bit hard for us while we were writing the review. I think it can be beneficial for the EFL learners in writing tasks. Watching a film and comment about that with a friend may sounds funny to the students..

We hope you'll read our review about Three Idiot and enjoy it :)  

WATCH THE TRAILER ! :) 

Podcast Project

In this project, I worked with my dear friend Özgenur. We recorded some parts of the story several times but eventually, we achieved it :) To combine our voice recording and sound effects is the funniest part of the task :) I think this activity is beneficial for the young learners. They can improve their speaking and listening skills in an enjoyable way..

You can listen to our story by clicking VOCAROO


Audio recording software >>

Welcome to a Pre-service English Teacher’s Blog

Hello everybody , welcome to my blog ! :)

As you know, technology has a great role in our lives and in education, too. We have to use technology for the generations born with the technology. So, we are taking the course of Technology and Material Design. I hope that we’ll learn and create lot of materials in this course. This blog has been opened for sharing these materials.

Thanks for your valuable time, I hope you can make use of my blog J