MacDonald’s videogame is a very good website where students can play the role of MacDonald’s corporation. Time to see what they do to bring the Big Mac to your plate…very critical! The interactivity is very good, and there’s lots of reading in English. Students will love it!
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All About Blogs
Interesting article on ELT and blogging at BBC & British Council’s site for teachers. Different approaches and practical ideas for the classroom.
Play Trivia online with your students
A very interesting online trivia game at Qtoro, where you answer questions while trying to beat other people on the net. You can also create your own questions:
Listening Games
Here’s a nice website with some listening games: elllo. The interface is quite simple, and it’s good for time-filling activities. The transcript appears right underneath the quiz game.
A Good Method
An Inconvenient Truth: A Convenient Pack
Some other ELT blogs… and a smile
Here’s a list of other ELT blogs. Most of them will be permanently to your right .
http://blocs.xtec.cat/primaryenglish/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml
http://www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/eltblog/blog/
http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/
http://eltconsultant.blogspot.com/
And here’s some fun, for those who love phonetics like I do.
Learn English watching the telly
Here’s a very interesting website offering free TV programmes related to ELT.
Australia Network offers different sections to learn English with TV programmes. The section English Bites lets you watch the episodes and also download them into your computer without cost. You can read the transcript and the programme plays the video twice stopping at cuts where relevant expressions are used.
Play with Caillou
Here’s a nice website from PBSKIDS where children can play with the famous Caillou… in English. Very nice activities and colourful games for the youngest… and the teacher by their side!
CLIL: Science in English
Many teachers see the advantages of teaching in a cross-curricular way: many are beginning to teach sciences in English, for example.
Here’s a list of websites with interesting science interactives in English for you:
Nutrition Explorations: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/main.asp
Kidshealth: http://kidshealth.org/kid/http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/
What in Dust? http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/baylor/dust.htm
Brainpop Jr. http://www.brainpopjr.com/
Cellsalive: Column on the left; click on “interactives”: http://www.cellsalive.com/
Chemicool: http://www.chemicool.com/
The Human Heart: http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/index.html
How Stuff Works: http://health.howstuffworks.com/http://science.howstuffworks.com/
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/index.html
Tox Mystery: http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/
BBC-bitesize:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/21c/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/rurevising/index.shtml
Kinetic City: http://www.kineticcity.com/
Un minut de ciència: http://www.edu365.cat/eso/muds/ciencies/minut_de_ciencia/index.htm?lang=en#
Nova Teachers: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/resources/subj_03_02.html
Medmotion: http://www.medmotion.com/gallery.shtml
Interactives.org: http://www.learner.org/interactives/