Interesting & Intelligent Internet Activities… …and they’re are all FREE!

1. Online Activities Interesting & Intelligent Internet Activities… …and they’re are all FREE!

2. TeachYa.com

3. What does the web offer teachers & learners? 1. Authentic Sites Text, images, audio & video for lesson planning Useful for projects & webquests 2. Teacher Sites Lesson plans & ideas Methodology Ready-made materials (worksheets, mp3s…) 3. Learner Sites Reference Interactive exercises Text, audio & video

4. Structure of Talk Why? Recommended websites Computer Room vs Projector Activities Mini-Projects Keeping problems to a minimum

5. What do you currently use? Do you currently use…? - Internet for lesson planning? - Internet in class? - Computer room? - CD-ROMs? - Interactive whiteboard? - Projector? Which websites? Obstacles?

6. Why Internet? break from routine attractive materials - multimedia increases status of language appeals to a range of learner styles inspires creativity & communication independent learning instant feedback fun students can try again at home wealth of material

7. Obstacles & Issues availability of IT resources confidence in our IT ability set-up time computer room discipline technicalproblems web pages can move / change Does website really fit the scheme of work? Which websites?

8. BBC Learning English – The Teacher

9. BBC Learning English – The Teacher • Which idiom do you think is correct here? • I got cold feet. • My feet froze and consequently I was unable to move. • I really put my foot in it!

10. BBC Learning English – The Teacher

11. BBC Learning English – The Teacher The final idiom is ‘I shot myself in the foot’. What do you think it means?

12. BBC Learning English – The Teacher • Follow-up activities • Mini-story • Extend idioms • Interactive features • comments • your idioms dictionary.cambridge.org

13. BBC Learning English – The Teacher

14. BBC Learning English – The Teacher

15. BBC Learning English – The Teacher

16. BBC Learning English – News English

17. BBC Learning English – Pronunciation

18. British Council – LearnEnglish Kids Teddy Dresser Clothes vocabulary

19. British Council – LearnEnglish Kids

20. British Council – LearnEnglish Kids

21. British Council – LearnEnglish Kids

22. Using the Computer Room

23. Using the Computer Room Great for: Interactive Activities (think of extension for early finishers) Project work / creative tasks Teaching ‘computer language’

24. English for the Computer Room Beginning the Session log in / log on log out / log off type in / enter your username & password open / open up Internet Explorer

25. English for the Computer Room Mouse & keyboard click double-click left-click right-click scroll up / scroll down

26. English for the Computer Room Mouse & keyboard hit / press the spacebar hold down SHIFT drag and drop

27. Projector

28. Projector Great for: Presenting language point or topic Listening / video exercises Interactive Exercises & Games can also work Quizzes – divide the class into two teams Games - Class v computer Games - Teams take turns (possible with Teddy Bear Dresser game?)

29. Can this work with a projector? • Challenge: For the website below, think of: • Projector-based activity • Follow-up activity If you had a million dollars... Song & quiz 2nd conditional & superlatives GenkiEnglish.net

30. Can this work with a projector?

31. Can this work with a projector?

32. BreakingNewsEnglish.com

33. English-Trailers.com

34. OUP.com

35. TeachYa.com

36. Computer Room Mini-Projects Making Arrangements How about ...ing? Let’s... Shall we...? Why don’t we...? Yeah, I’d love to! Great idea! That sounds nice. Actually, I’d prefer to...

37. Dvolver Movie Maker Turn your dialogue into a movie! Make a Flash movie with different characters, scenes, settings and music.

38. Dvolver Movie Maker

39. Dvolver Movie Maker

40. Dvolver Movie Maker

41. Dvolver Movie Maker