1. Family Photos. Any beginner-level class will involve a unit on the family, and using examples from your own family will be far more interesting to students than a lesson from a textbook. Be sure to bring photos of extended as well as nuclear family so you can use them to demonstrate words such as "niece," "brother-in-law," or "aunt." Before you leave home, consider taking some photos to a copy shop to blow them up to the size of 8x10 and then laminate them. This will make it easy for your students to see them during a classroom presentation, plus they will be more durable if laminated.
2. Calendar. A calendar will have large photos that you can use for descriptions, and it's easy to find one depicting the different seasons. Plus, you can use your calendar for lessons on the months of the year and the days of the week.
3. youtube: You Tube remains a powerful classroom tool, As English teachers, we are truly blessed to be working in the YouTube era.
4. blogs: as teachers we can ask the students a blog and there they can upload everything what we’ve seen in class.
5. Email
If you’re going to use Electronic Mail to communicate with students, the first thing to do is create mailing lists of your students, grouped in whichever way is most appropriate. Most email programs have an address book that allows you to do this. Once done, you will then be able to email all of your students in a particular group with a single mouse click. You will still, of course, be able to email them individually.
6. Newsletter/Newspaper/Magazine
Working together, but not necessarily in the same location, students can write and edit a publication of some kind. This might be a one-off (for example, for a short-term course) or weekly or monthly (for a longer-term course). It could be related specifically to the group or to any other subject of interest to the group. The way you organise this is up to you. You might give each student a different role (editor, advertising manager, journalist etc) or you might let them work in any way they wish. But you should probably set some clear objectives: number of words, editorial/advertising ratio, editorial policy etc.
The beauty of email is that the text can be written, transmitted, rewritten, edited, retransmitted etc easily between any number of students working in any location. Text can be either in the body of the email or attached as a file. Manipulation and correction is particularly easy.
The final product could be published as an email, as a printed document or as a web page. If you have your own home page, or if your school has a web site, it should be a fairly easy matter to publish your students’ work. This would give added motivation.
7. Vocabulary Builder
Explains difficult English Vocabulary. With this tool, English language students can extract meanings of all difficult words from arbitrary text.
English language teachers can prepare lesson vocabularies of unknown words. This program may be a useful vocabulary reference and first draft resource for translators. Useful for ESL/EFL and other English language study.
Ex: http://www.online-utility.org/english/vocabulary_builder.jsp
8. Teaching Audio & Video (podcast)
Podcasts in English are not just listening activities for efl and esl students. The supporting worksheets and transcripts also provide valuable English language lessons for those who learn English at all levels.
Podcasting provides a means of publishing audio programs via the Internet. Users can automatically download podcasts (usually mp3 files) onto their computers and transfer these recordings automatically to portable music players such as Apple's extremely popular iPods. Users can then listen to the files anytime and anywhere they choose.
ex: www.LearnOutLoud.com
ex: http://esl.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=esl&cdn=education&tm=117&f=00&su=p284.9.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.apple.com/itunes/
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