This is the website source:http://www.elllo.org/
This is for short film + lesson plans : https://film-english.com/
Introduction
This authoring tool eventually makes teaching and learning in the second language more easier and fun.This technology is suitable for teachers as well as all levels of students.This website brings in the idea of improving your English language skills especially listening skill through audio clips and videos.
There are 8 sections in the website that are views, mixer, games, videos, news,scenes,songs and points. The website is organised as user friendly although it may seem confusing for first viewer but once its familiarised then it tends to be user friendly. The website is rich with contents from various topics and sometimes they are slightly beyond students level in order to initiate students to move beyond their comfort zone. However, the topics seems to be not that well organised because the topics are quit mixed up and not appropriately categorised yet it is an amazing site to seek contents. There are a lot of videos available in the site but the main focus is on audio clips. The videos and audio clips are supplemented with transcript, audio slide show, vocabulary quiz, speaking quiz, reading quiz and comprehension activities to test students understanding. This website also have matching games after listening and in terms of vocabulary they have pronunciation of words, the definition and some examples. This website also provides with facility to download not all audio files but certain audio files and also some materials are printable. The kind interaction that takes place while using this website is video responses (monologue) to questions posted in the site.
Instructions
How do teachers and students go about using this website?? Don't worry there are some guide below:
I hope the picture guide will help teachers and students to explore this website.
Additionally there are also some example activities below using the website. The activity are about improving your vocabulary and pronunciation using elllo!!!
The advantages gained from using this website are:
- teachers can vary their teaching methods
- teachers can English language more interesting using audio and videos
- a good website for listening activity
- provides the students to hear a variety of accents in English
- provides authentic materials
- video responses allows personalisation
- encourages autonomous learning
- provides a meaningful context for learning language
- caters a variety of topics according to interest
- provides transcripts for the audio and videos
- provides teaching materials like quiz
- also focuses on speaking (video responses and pronunciation) writing (comprehension) and reading (vocabulary)
The disadvantage of using this website is :
- some technical problems whereby the website is not suitable with certain browsers
Recommendation
Teachers can use this website for listening activity, speaking activity, vocabulary teaching, pronunciation, comprehension and quiz. On the other hand, students can use this website to self asses and reflect their own language learning by doing the activities with answers.Students also can familiarise themselves with various English accents and avoid speaking like a book. Students can also learn others cultures since this website promotes multicultural context.
Referencestoallthesourcesis:elloEngish.com
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