People from Amanita Design have produced a beautiful online videogame for the BBC educational website: Questionaut
Travel with a friendly voyager in pursuit of his friend’s windswept hat, and answer multiple questions from different fields in a dream-like world, flying with your balloon and winning oxygen by answering correctly. There’s fun and learning, and it’s in English! Worth a visit!
After a while without posts, here’s one with interesting websites for your lessons. They are worth a look during the coming holidays: ESL and Clil have room here… enjoy!
This website has a large list of online activities to foster reading and writing skills. Among the long list, I have chosen two applications:
Character Trading Cards is an application based upon the popular trading cards students use. Here students can customize their own cards making up different characters with their specific features: Mood, weaknesses, strengths, problems, approach to life… Students fill the card with the information required in an easy step-by-step process.
These trading cards can be printed and used in order to create stories or role play situations. Writing, reading and speaking in a bunch!
Fractured Fairy Tales helps students create brand new stories out of classical fairy tales which are fragmented and reused after changing some of its characteristic traits (part of the plot, characters, end of the story…) An easy interface with easy write and click instructions. Really catchy!
An extremely nice website for young students created by the New York Zoos and Aquarium Authority. Choose the animal parts you want to have in your own wild self, and create a new species in the animal world! Navigation is easy and the library has many different options … good fun!
The parts you have chosen will help you make up the name of this strange creature. Learn about its habitat and how it reacts to the world around it… Your students will love it!
Good website with animations and road education! Hector’s Home gives students a very good time with some very spooky short films where Hector, the main character, moves about the city and learns the most important aspects of road education.
You can watch the films and do the activities and games that appear as you move around.
Teachers can enter a special area where very useful lesson plans are provided. They’re worth a look, believe me!
A really catchy website, they learn road education as they practise their English.
New feature from Google. Go into Google Docs
and create a form for your friends… or for your students… and why not a test? It is veeeeeery easy to create and to embed in your blog. Here’s an example:
Watch and learn!
This short films from Animals save the Planet give us the chance to help our students learn the most important concepts of global conscience and sustainability. Funny animals show our children how to be green! Language is not very difficult, and of course, there are lots of other possibilities to exploit.
This a really nice game! It’s not a simple click and go thing, you must think as a responsible manager, a responsible mayor who wants to run a clean city with happy citizens. The main focus is the wise use of energy, but it appears together with other aspects that create an extremely catchy educational game. Take some time to learn the rules, and you’ll be able to get the most of the game with your students next school year!
