USING ICT AND INTERNET IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Some useful apps for English Language Class

Carlos Cagigas BallesterosHugo Cuevas Poza

Elena Otero San Miguel

Advantages and Disadvantages ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

Improve the communicative skills Price. Gets old quickly.

Lots of information in the cloud Teachers who has not the ability

Adapt the level Dependence on the Internet

Talk to other foreign people The digital gap

Autonomy of the pupils, Pupils can be easily disturb

Waist less time preparing lessons Sight problems in the long run

Connect the content with the real Control the information

Motivation Lost of social skills

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COMIC LAB

Students can do a comic, first they

can put in the slide draws and later

they can write the story

READING RING

FIRST… Picture AND LATER… Question

RULES

TOON BOOK READER

KNOWLEDGE BOX

Activities to work the different subjects while students are enjoying

G - CUBE

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Freeware Tool

Pupils can work in groups communicating in the Target Language

Pupils can create their own material

It is a program for producing exercises

for the web

JBCMultiple choice answer

quizzes

You can include a written text, with a reading time limitQuestions can have up to four answers.

Verb tensesSynonims

J Cloze

You can center the student’s attention in specific vocabulary,

structure…

Fill the gaps.

Writing exersicesVerb tensesPhrasal verbsSpecific VocabularyPrepositions

J Cross

Crossword puzzles

Clues can be either in word-form or as pictures

VocabularyL1-L2 words

J MatchListing

exercises, or matching

exercises  

As JCross, pictures can be used in place of words

VocabularyPhrasal verbs (verb + preposition)Match verb tenses - situatios

J Mix

Jumbled sentence exercises

Similar to ones that can be created with paper and scissorsThe teachers are able to include all combinations

SayingsMade-phrasesEnglish expressionsReported Speech

J Quiz

Short answer quizzes

Four possible correct answers are availableTells you what part of your answer is correct

Spelling trialsPrepositions

MES ENGLISH There´s no need to register or to create a user account.

We can generate: puzzles, mazes, bingo, vocabulary and spelling exercises, domino, videos, etc.

Many topics: body parts, colours, family food...

BRITISH COUNCIL. “LEARNENGLISH KIDS” Teachers can´t create their own tools

Games: Learn words, listen and watch, play with

words and spelling,…

Listen and watch activities: songs, short stories and

tongue twisters.

Reading and writing exercises.

Card and story-making.

Speaking, spelling and grammar activities.

ACTIVITY VILLAGE It mixes tools similar to the ones I have just explained.

It contains jokes which:

Contribute to increasing student´s confidence.

Stimulates their thinking

You can buy: sodukus, notebooks and other things in their shop.

ESL- KIDS It contains links to other EFL websites:

Maple Leaf Learning, Sparkle box, ESL kidstuff.

WWW.PRIMARYRESOURCES.CO.UK You can use this website if you ever

teach in any subject-area (Music, Science, Maths and Art) in English.

Thank you!