FUN TOOLS

1)

This is a website which provide many interactive ways for ELT through ICT. Furthermore, it should almost all level of learners because the activities are divided into three different level, easy, intermediate and difficult.  Teachers could also use this website as a handbook for creating creative lesson plans in the language classroom.It is free and easy to use with the learners. Just click the link below to enjoy the all the activities.   

http://clicknlearn.net/

This webpages comes in four languages. Teacher could utilise this website according to the learners language target. Besides, the variety of languages could also help learners to learn new languages.

It also offers three different difficulty level for each section. The learners could begin with the easy and gradually try the difficult  activities. 

Moreover, each difficulty level offers quite a number of topics with respective activities in each of them.

I like this webpage because: 

1. It is free to use
2. offers many different types of activities with different level of difficulties
3. very interactive and motivating because the activities are being scored

I dislike this webpage because:

1. it requires internet connection
2. some activities are too easy, (only suitable for young learners)

As a whole, I enjoyed using this tool and I hope you would love it too.

MJ

2)

This  fun tool is called Phonetic Focus. It is a very interactive tool which could be used to enjoy phonetic lesson in classroom. Learners could also utilise this tool at home to improve their phonetic knowledge through the interesting activities in this site. 

This the image of the webpage. It shows many options of  interesting activities to choose from, in order to have fun and improve phonetic.  

 I would encourage learners to use this tool because:

1. It is interactive, where, this would motivate the learners to learn phonetics (a quite boring lesson in language). 
2. It is also free to use and it is also available as iPhone app - easily accessible by learners

 However, 

This tool requires internet connection  and cannot be used offline. And, the iPhone application is not free to use - paid version

MJ




3)

This webpage is Breaking News English, which provides EFL/ESl lesson plans for teachers. It is an useful webpage especially for teacher to prepare lesson plan in a short time. Click on the link above, you will be directed to the webpage and you can start experiencing the benefits of it like I did. 

Image of the webpage

This webpage is benefits the teachers the most because:

1. It provides free lesson plans based on topics.
2. Saves time in preparing lesson plans
3. Free and printable

Therefore,

Teachers should not be too dependent with this website - only use it when necessary or may use some of the ideas from the website to create own lesson plan.

I believe this website would be very useful for teachers like us, but we have to be careful in choosing and using the appropriate lesson plans for our learners need. 

MJ