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DeepLeap as warm-up spelling activity

Teachers can use this online tool, DeepLeap, as a warm up or reward activity as the re is not a great deal of control over the letters that pass along the top at this time. It can be used as a short spelling/vocabulary challenge type of activity. Simply, letters appear at the top of the …

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Interactive Vocabulary Activities (Hot Potatoes)

Thanks to the Language Centre at University of Victoria, Canada and their  Gerry’s Vocabulary Teacher and Hot Potatoes, there is a free offering over over 700 online activities based on 2000 words that can be used by English language learners at English Vocabulary Exercises. Teachers may also incorporate the Weekly Study Guide into their courses.

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Prewriting Activity with The Interactive Trading Card Creator

The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their search, literacy, and categorization skills as they learn about about popular culture texts or realia. This interactive tool allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.  This could be used as …

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term.ly for Vocabulary Building Activities

term.ly provides concise definitions as well as a quick link bar to other web resources to locate elaborations of input terms.

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Share My Lessons – by Teachers for Teachers

SharemyLesson provides a digital market where teachers can freely share lesson plans.  There is a designated virtual table for ESL/ELT teachers. At this time there are 216 worksheets, games, puzzles, lesson plans, flashcards, posters, assessments and other ideas for teachers to use  with their students at this site.

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Thinking of a class/school/event/genre newspaper this year? Consider Paper.li

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Paper.li allows anyone to publish an online newspaper.  The technology is quite simple to use.  As with any other coordination based activity, it is the instructor’s responsibility to assign tasks and set the editing and vetting process. Since it is web based, it can be used as a means for students to write for an …

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Teach genre with Everyone’s Mixtape

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This is a stretch but you can use this site, Everyone’s Mixtape,  as an ice breaker with the goal of defining genre with your students.  The casual  music genres are listed on the cassette tape box spines on the left.  Challenge students to  define each genre.  Pairs, groups or as individuals but as a class …

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Turn Dead Words into an activity

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This is a visually pleasing display of English words that have been created, modified, and forgotten. This webspace is a place to rediscover disregarded or dead English words.  Deadwords might be might be used as a discussion activity that challenges students to seek other retired English words and possibly create/ locate a suitable image for …

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Create a Word List with Word Dynamo

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This is a real language teacher’s development tool.  In 5 easy steps one can create vocabulary lists for classroom use.   Once you have create the list your students can study the words with Flashcards, then play multimedia games to learn the vocabulary.    Try out the basic 5 item  Academic Word List that I created this …

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KSAALT item “SpellingCity”

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The nice folks at Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Association of Language Teachers published a short item called, “Creating Vocabulary Activities Using SpellingCity”  recently. Click here to download the publication.

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