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Hi teachers! Nice to meet you again here. As English teachers, we know that engaging our students in the learning process is the key to their success. But we know that finding ways to make learning fun and interactive can be challenging, so today I'm going to introduce Nearpod, which can help us engage our students easier. Nearpod is an interactive learning platform that allows teachers to create and deliver engaging lessons to students. With its library of pre-made lessons, customizable features, and interactive presentation tools, Nearpod is a powerful tool for us as English language teachers looking to enhance our students' learning experience. From: https://nearpod.com/library/ Let's take a look at an example of a lesson that I made on Nearpod. As you can see this is an example for an IELTS listening class which introduces some listening strategies. What I did is simply upload the PowerPoint slide onto this platform. Of course you can add more interesting contain in you...

As language teachers, we are always looking for innovative ways to engage our students and promote language learning. And today I would like to introduce a valuable resource that can help us achieve this goal, which is TED-Ed. It's an educational initiative that produces and shares animated videos, lesson plans, and quizzes designed to enhance learning. And I also think TED-Ed is a great resource for us as language teachers who want to incorporate blended learning into our classrooms. From ed.ted.com Here's a simple sample lesson I've just made on TED-Ed. It's about teaching students to apologize appropriately. Just click on my link below and take a look how amazing this website can offer us. https://ed.ted.com/on/8Jm2J6Qz#watch From ed.ted.com As you can see, I put some open answer questions about the videos in my lesson. And it's your choice to create your own videos and questions. Here's the link about how to create TED-Ed Lessons, it would be helpful to take...

Hello teachers, nice to meet you again here! As we are language teachers, we know that speaking is one of the most challenging skills to master during the language learning process. It can be really difficult to know if you're pronouncing words correctly, using the right intonation, or speaking at a natural pace. So this time I'm recommending you a really good tool which is called Speechling. Speechling is an online platform that helps language learners improve their speaking skills through personalized feedback and practice exercises. From https://speechling.com/ As you can see in the front page of Speechling above, it is an online language learning platform that offers personalized speech feedback and coaching in several languages. And it's main focus is on helping learners improve their speaking skills by providing them with targeted feedback on their pronunciation, intonation, and fluency. From https://speechling.com/ Speechling offers a range of tools ...

Hello teachers, today I would like to share a really interesting and useful online tool which provide us a platform to collaborate and interact with our students, it is the Twiddla!  Firstly, let me introduce Twiddla briefly with some screenshot I just made on Twiddla. As you can see in the pictures. Twiddla is a web-based collaboration tool that allows multiple users to draw, write, and interact on a shared virtual whiteboard.  From https://www.twiddla.com/ From https://www.twiddla.com/ But please don't think it's just a site that provides blank canvases, it can do way more things. As you can see in the below picture, there are many tools we can use up top such as insert text boxes and images, or do some shapes and drawing on the whiteboard. And it's totally free and we don't even need to register an account for it! All we need to do is to create a room by just one click and then invite our students into the room by give them the room URL. For more detailed ins...

Hello teachers! Today I would like to share with you a really good language-learning website/app that is perfect for students to learn the language by themselves in their spare time. It's called Duolingo. Let's take a look at it together here. More than 40 different languages are provided on this website, which means that we  (or students)  can easily find the target language we/they want to learn. From duolingo.com To get started, just choose the language you are speaking, and then select the target language you want to learn. Here I choose English as L1 and Spanish as the target language for example. From duolingo.com The most impressive thing  that I like  about Duolingo is that it's a gamified language-learning  website/ app. It converted the process of language learning into a game. As you can see, the characters are all cartoonish and fun. From duolingo.com Another good thing about  Duolingo  is that with every single unit, there is a tip se...

Hello teachers! Nice to meet you again here.  We know that it's never easy to maintain our students' motivation during our classes, especially when we want to do some in-class quizzes. So today I would like to share a good tool to help us as teachers to let our students engage in our course contents. And this tool is called Kahoot. As teachers, we can use Kahoot to: from https://kahoot.com/ So, as we can see, it contains all kinds of class activities for teachers to do no matter new content introduction or knowledge revision.  And the process of creating your own Kahoot games is really easy and simple, just click on the ' Create a Kahoot'    button on the home page of Kahoot ( https://create.kahoot.it ). from https://kahoot.com/ And then it's your opportunity to show your creativity to make your own Kahoot. Take your time, select or upload the content you want and enjoy this funny progress. Below I will show you some screenshots of a simple quiz game I jus...

Hello, everyone! This is my first time doing the blog and I would like to share with you some good and interesting findings in English teaching in this place. And today I would like to start this by sharing with you my personal review of the blog by  Jamie Keddie ( a Barcelona-based teacher trainer and storyteller ) via  https://lessonstream.com/blog/ .  According to his blog  title, we can easily learn that this blog aims to provide ideas of stories for teachers to make their lesson plans. from  https://lessonstream.com/blog/   The layout of this blog is nice and clean, articles are listed in two columns which makes the whole page looks clean and uncrowded. The title of each article is enlarged, and there are some preview contents of the article, making it easy for readers to get the text's main point directly and decide if they want to click into it. Each article comes with an interesting picture above the title, which can attract readers' attention...