An Open Door For ELT

 

Hi guys, I'll introduce an ELT website I like visiting to you via this post so that you can have a chance to benefit from it.
Here is this website which is one of my favorites, ESLKidslab.

This website was made by a teacher, Kisito Futong. Kisito is a language talent who not only teaches English but picks up other languages rapidly. His language teaching and learning experiences have given Kisi a highly insightful view of language teaching and learning. During his 7 year TEFL/TESL career he has been the author of several English teaching course materials and has single-handedly learnt and created 7 highly popular ESL websites that draw tons of visitors.Actually,  This site was born out of the success of english-4kids.com. English-4kids.com has been written about in university papers, TEFL training courses and more.

 

The website provides English (ESL, EFL, ELT, ESOL) learning and teaching materials for young learners, preschool, beginners, elementary and pre-intermediate. The materials of the website are designed to appeal to all learning styles. Thank to these different materials, teachers won't lack stuff for your kinesthetic, visual and auditory learners that are common in all ESL Kids classrooms. There are different learning materials like video lessons by course, printable worksheets, self-grading exercises, flashcards, phonics materials, teaching tips and a host of others.

 

There are 4 main sections on the website such as lessons, worksheets, flashcards,

phonics.

 

 

  

On the lessons section, you will find video lessons and self-grading quizzes put according to topics and the developmental stages of the students. The online videos make for an excellent online classroom where students can study with minimal guidance. The video lesson slides are so well-designed, little or no explaining is needed. It is collection of many years of teaching in various classrooms across the globe.

                                                                  

On the worksheets section, There are different worksheets to teach and reinforce the lessons, the author tries to provide a rich collection of the finest worksheets ever created. They include: coloring worksheets, handwriting worksheets, Grammar, Crossword Puzzles, Word Search Puzzles, Word Scrambles, Gap fills, Text Mazes for reading, Drawing, and so much more.

 
On the flashcards section, This area is loaded with well-categorized flashcards according to the courses above. They are in PDF and JPG formats. It will be easy for you to use these cards according to different topics. The cards cover familiar topics like: Food, Animals, Time, Weather, Clothes, Vegetables, Fruits, Shapes, Action Verbs, Transportation, School and classroom objects. Do not be afraid to take a look. They will save you enormous amounts of time. We have gone an extra mile to give you a list of flashcard game ideas.


     
 
On the phonics section, the website provides phonics workcards, flashcards and worksheets from A to Z with videos to make things even better. With such good quality materials you just can't go wrong.The website also provides a few teaching tips, games and suggestions for using them.

I think the website is full of different learning materials for students who learn  a language in different styles. For this reason, teachers can benefit from this website for their students not to lack materials which are necessary for learning. Thanks to these different materials, if the students can not learn the subjects in one way, they can understand or learn in another way.

Hooked On Reading

 

Have you heard of RSS before? I seem to hear you saying ''Noooo!''. I did not hear until the last week. Now I'm here to introduce this technology to you. Firstly, RSS implies Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. RSS is such a useful technology that it enables us to keep track of our favourite website. There are a lot of versions of RSS and I use FreeReader which is an online reader service. Rather than check continually the websites you are interested in, you are alerted by RSS when your favourite websites add a new post. By using this service, you can have the very latest information on these topics delivered directly to you. With these countless advantages, it is already used by millions of users all around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

An ELT Notebook is one of my favorite blogs and also a blog every inexperienced teacher should follow. Of course, not just for inexperienced ones, even experienced ones can. There are many things you can benefit from as a teacher. The blog gives English teachers many different ideas about teaching English, how a teacher should teach the students the language or what kinds of activities English teachers can use in their English class for their students. As I said, it recommends teachers a lot of different activities they can use in their class such as picture games, drilling games, speaking. What's more, the blog does not speak to a specific student level. For me, the blog is full of information and it's obvious that there are many experiences the blogger has had until now. The blogger does not share only her own experiences or ideas in the blog, she also gets opinions of other teachers from different countries. People like me, who will be a teacher in the future, should not underestimate the blogger's experiences and should pay attention to her advices.





 

 

 

Oops, First Let Me Watch a Movie!

Hi guys!
Here I am again with a new post. As you know, a new post means a new project. For this project we made a review with my friend Esra Seferinoğlu about a film named Stoker on Wiki. Wiki gives us opportunity to work collaboratively with other people. Thanks to this useful website, Esra and me worked together for our review to give you some information about this film. All we did is like briefing the film without mentioning what happens in the end of it. Actually, we did not have any difficulties. On the contrary, it was entertaining cause watching movies is such a good thing that you can both have fun and generally learn interesting something while doing. I think activities like this work on teaching students to collabrate with each other and use technology. Through Wiki, students will be better with technology and more eager to share their knowledge with others. Also, it enables the students to make choices actively about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. I mean that teachers can make students use Wiki in classroom.

Reading film reviews is the thing that all people do. Cause there are times when we're bored and think there's nothing to do. You wanna watch any movie but have no idea which film you'll watch and in that time reviews work a treat on finding what you're looking for.

I hope our review can help you,too. You can give a look at the review by clicking here.

We're Ready to Sing!

Hi guys! Here I am with my first project. The project is Podcasting. This week, me and my friend Esra Seferinoğlu wrote a song about Cinderella. There are two characters,Cinderella and Fairy.The song was written by changing dialogues between them.This song is more suitable for young learners. It's better and easier for them to learn a language in such a funny way. To be honest,we had some difficulties while we were recording our song. As you know,singing is not that easy.You have to sing again from the very beginning if you make even one little mistake. So there were times when we had to rerecord the song. Also, you should make the lyrics fit into the melody. Or the song will be completely nonsense. This was not so easy for us because we had several melodies and we're so indecisive about which melody could fit more with the lyrics. You have to adjust your voice to the song properly and you have to give the emotions of the song to your listeners(even if your audiciences are kids). I think teachers can use this song in their classes. With this song,students will learn more while they're having fun. Through such didactic activities, the students will take pleasure in learning a language. In our recording, Cinderella sings a chant about her sadness upon not going to the ball held in the palace and The Fairy suddenly appears, consoles Cinderella and you will also hear what it says in a chant. You can find lyrics below.

Voice Recorder >>   

Lyrics

A ball was to held at the palace and while everyone was getting ready to go Cinderella, dressed in old rags, didn’t even dare ask if she also could go. She knew very well whatever stepsisters’ answer would be. The cat murmured and Cinderella sighed ‘’Oh dear, I’m so unhappy’’. Suddenly something amazing happened. There was a burst of light and a fairy appeared.

Cinderella:

I’m staying at home to scrub these dirty floors

Wash the dishes and turn down dirty beds

While my sisters are going to the ball

I’m staying at home for cleaning up the hole

Fairy:

Don’t be sorry pretty little girl

Get me a pumpkin bring me seven mice

Do not forget that dear Cinderella

The mice you’ll bring should be alive

Cinderella:

I was  dressed in rags and wearing torn clogs

Want to throw my old and dirty clothes

Thanks a billion you beautiful fairy

I just dont believe in this nice surprise                       

Fairy:

Please tell the prince that he would marry you

And be at home before the descent of the sun

Even your cat smiled and said:miaow
Your pretty face will be such a lovely gun

Are You Brave Enough to Learn a New Language?

If you answer this question ''Yes'', Then come and visit my blog! There are a lot of people who want to learn English. While some are really trying to do something for making this dream come true, some are not that brave and can not go beyond just wanting it. Of course you will have difficulty during this process but does learning process already take time and effort? Do not forget that self-confidence has a crucial role on learning second language,too. There are also other important factors. One of these factors is someone who has experienced this process before. Do not worry about it because my blog is here to help you for this aim. I will share my experiences via this blog so that people who start learning English can benefit from it. When you decide to learn English,please take a look at my blog. I'm sure you can find something useful here.