The Most Interesting Websites

After searching and discovering the Internet, our group all agreed to choose the following websites we have found are the most interesting. They are not only reliable but also invaluable resources for both teachers and students.

Websites for Teachers:

1. Oxford University Press – A great resource for language learners and teachers. We can also search for academic, professional information and materials.
   <http://www.oup.com//>
2. Teaching English - As a co-production between BBC and the British Council, this website provides teachers of English with a practical resource, a theoretical and historical archive as well as a forum for teachers to exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials.
   <http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ >

Websites for Students:

1. British Council – A reliable site of different kinds of interesting activvities and links related to foreign language learning and teaching, which is suitable for leaners at different levels. It includes exercises, songs, quizzes, and so on. <http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/>
2. BBC Learning English - This website enables students to practice their English with a lot of activities like Listening, Crosswords, especially downloadable videos and audios related to interesting and daily topics.
   < http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish>

More websites will be added soon. ^^

We welcome all your contribution to lengthen this website list.

Hot Potatoes, really interesting!

Hi all, do you find that our lessons today are very interesting and informative? We ourselves think those are really exciting. Now let see how it is...

Hot Potatoes

1. What is Hot Potatoes? (http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/)
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.

2. What can language teachers benefit from Hot Potatoes?

- apply technology in teaching

- design a variety of activities

- make teaching more interesting and meaningful

..... ( maybe there are more, you can contribute)

---- Finally, some lines about our lecturer - Ms. Marta
We would like to send great thanks to you.
Our teacher is so nice, we love to hear her voice and see her smile.

An Exploration Day For Everybody in TILT Class

Today is a hard-working but meaningful day. What we need as an English teacher to create activities and exercises is delivered clearly from the very beginning of the class.

Soundforge and Audacity breathe a fresh wind to the design of Listening tasks. We can actually manage and exploit an audio file in a number of ways, not just only play and stop. Indeed, these are useful tools enabling us to manipulate listening practice in an efficient way, a far cry from the traditional method of recording, pausing then playing over and over – which is too inconvenient and results in poor quality.

Besides, our attitude towards using Software in language teaching is dramatically changed after we are introduced to Hot potatoes – which is the key point of today’s lesson. We were fully immersed in creating Cloze test, Multiple choice Questions as well as Matching and Crosswords activities. They are so amazing and beneficial. Our group is considering them in our project. How can these programs be inserted and exploited in our final product – the CD ROM? We are all eager to try, to explore and practice with the new Software, yet how to apply them logically and methodologically in a lesson plan? We have just come up with the topic, perhaps about the environment, more specifically, about the UNDERSEA WORLD.

With clear and detailed instructions of Ms Marta, we have better and deeper understanding of the software so that we can apply them in teaching and learning English. Also, the thing that we are interested in is the way teachers can use well-designed activities for students to do at home and also get students' results via email or saved document. In that way, both teachers and students can make use most of technology in studies even if their schools don't have multimedia rooms or labs. From what we discovered today, our group has a number of ideas for our projects and our lessons in future as well.

Ya, there are still a lot of things to be done for the next two days. Wow, the TET is coming, shall our group be able to settle everything before we enjoy ourselves? Will our fine appreciation of this subject and the exhilarating moment in class remain vivid to guide our way through the busy festival? We hope we will find a way!