Mark

The variety of web-based resources covered on this training, both by the trainer Oana and with individual contributions from people attending too, has been enlightening. It included, among other things, websites to help listening skills, such as www.starfall.com, with its ´Learn to Read´ section and interactive activities to help pronunciation at lower levels. Also, www.123listening.com with handy worksheets and test sheets, and free resources useful to help Primary levels practice pronunciation in short clips – all useful for young learners, through to the Flyers level for Cambridge exams.

If you have a Gmail / Google account, then www.ororo.tv provides the facility to watch a film with both English and Spanish subtitles, but also allowing the user to slow down a film and its dialog while it´s running – a great tool for practicing listening skills and getting accustomed to different English accents! Similarly, www.lyricstraining.com can display lyrics in two languages below a music video as it plays, and allows learners to guess the correct word being sung as you stop and restart the video.

Also great for online resources were www.esl-lab.com and www.ello.org for listening activities, and www.mes-english.com with its flashcards and related worksheets. With www.eslgames.com, you have a resource for games to use with adult learners.

Meanwhile, among the many resources brought to our attention by the experienced teachers attending the course, were the blog, http://techno-english.blogspot.com.es/ and another handy website for ready-made free resources, www.toolsforeducators.com, and Plickers, the amazing tool at https://www.plickers.com/ for quickly checking understanding around your classroom, using the camera on your teacher´s phone while students hold up their answers to a question using copies of a specially designed answer sheet printed out for them.