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Get your Students Listening and Interacting with Native Speakers

tháng 3 17, 2011 listening skills, speaking skills, video, video conferencing No comments

Listening in the EFL / ESL classroom can be a pretty dull business. Usually it consists of students all listening to the same thing at the same time and doing the same tasks. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you feel the urge to...

Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL

tháng 10 30, 2008 animation, listening skills, script writing, text to speach, writing skills No comments

Yesterday on my Quick Shout blog, I wrote about a new tool called Xtranormal for creating text to speech animated movies. Since then I've had a little time to put together a tutorial video and think about how to use it in the classroom. First...

Exploiting a Video Viral

tháng 10 23, 2008 fun, listening skills, narrative, video No comments

For a long time now I've been fascinated with viral marketing campaigns and the way advertisers use these to promote their products. What's really interesting about them is the advertisers ability to come up with really novel and original ideas...

Text to Speech for EFL ESL Materials

tháng 8 26, 2008 i-pod, listening skills, pronunciation, teaching materials, text to speach No comments

Text to Speech (TTS) technology has come a long way in recent years and this is nowhere more evident than on the Read The Words website.I've just been having a look at the site and trying to decide whether it has real potential for helping...

Sending Bubble Joy to your EFL / ESL Students

tháng 7 24, 2008 CMC, communication, listening skills, speaking skills, tefl, video, video conferencing No comments

It's amazing how you can spend ages looking for something you want and then when you find it a whole bunch of other things come along with it. That seems to be the way things have happened for me with video conferencing. I found and posted...

Video conferencing for EFL

tháng 7 16, 2008 CMC, communication, listening skills, speaking skills, video, video conferencing No comments

It's not often that you look at a product and think 'Ah! That's exactly what I've been looking for! And it's free!' But tokbox does seem to be that kind of product for me.For some time now I've been looking round for a suitable video conferencing type application and while there have been a few that look okay, like SnapYap which I reviewed a week or...

Karaoke with a Social Network

tháng 7 07, 2008 listening skills, music, social network, song, video No comments

Well it had to happen! As every other kind of site these days has a social network attached to it, why not karaoke too?The site I've been looking at is called RedKaraoke and it has quite a few useful features. There isn't a huge range of songs...

Dictation goes Web 2.0

tháng 6 05, 2008 audio, listening skills No comments

Yes and why not? Seems hard to see how this would be accomplished but it certainly does seem to be the case at the Listen and Write - Dictation website. What's more it seems to have been done in a pretty impressive way too.This site features quite a number of audio files all of which can be accessed through quite a cleverly designed dictation activity....

Using Product Reviews

tháng 5 27, 2008 i-pod, listening skills, project work, video No comments

Product review sites are becoming ever more popular on the internet, and why not after all? If you are going to spend money buying something, it's always a good idea to see what other people who bought that same product think of it.ExpoTV is just that kind of site. It has a collection of, mostly home made, video clips made by ordinary people, mostly...

Pronunciation goes 2.0

tháng 4 23, 2008 audio, listening skills, pronunciation, speaking skills No comments

I've been looking this week at Forvo, which is a kind of web 2.0 pronunciation site. The site allows users to request, and add audio clips of the pronunciation of different words from a huge range of languages, so if you want to know how a...

Iconic teen video

tháng 4 18, 2008 culture, drama, listening skills, speaking skills, video No comments

Using video clips with teenagers can be enormously motivating for them, IF you get the right content. Getting the content right involves taking a look into the lives of our students and finding out what kind of things they are watching.One of the most high profile examples of this is LonelyGirl15.LonelyGirl15, which became a Youtube phenomenon, depicted...

Tackling political issues

tháng 3 21, 2008 debate, listening skills, speaking skills, video No comments

Big Think is running some really nice clips from two speakers on a range of political issues at the moment. Here's a nice taster to view with an opinion on "Is it fair to ask developing countries to go green?"The speakers are:Lawrence Tribe, an American constitutional scholar and University Professor at the Harvard Law School.He talks about such things...

Soundscapes from Soundtransit

tháng 3 07, 2008 audio, drama, fun, listening skills No comments

Sound Transit is a really wonderful formulation of an idea. It's not just a huge collection of Mp3 sound files from all over the world, but the sounds have been tagged by country and described and a visitor to the site can take a sound journey...

Exam Practice

tháng 6 04, 2007 exam, IELTS, listening skills No comments

I’ve just been doing some writing work for a really useful site called Exam English. The site specialises in providing information and free practice materials for a variety of English language exams including IELTS, TOEFL and the range of Cambridge exams..The practice materials are mostly Flash based and are interactive. They test a range of skills...

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