Thursday, March 31, 2016

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.