lets listen and write!

Hello peeps, now let me introduce another superb and catchy website for learners to master English in a fun way. You can actually improve your listening skills as well as know current issues that happening all over the world just by clicking this listen and write. Its gonna be pretty much exciting for most level of  English learners.

This website allows learners to select authentic topics provided in the list. Once the choices are made, they are expected to listen to the recorded voice and write down the whole sentence in the box. Here is the example of 3 types of mode available for learners, absolutely differed in terms of difficulty level.

Useful things about this website:

1) It can act as a medium for students to practice their listening skill, independently.

2) Students can always take time to listen carefully.

3) There's no time limit to finish the listening task.

2) Expose students to real and authentic listening materials.

3) Encourage autonomous learning.

4) Definitely not a boring,but a fun way to learn new vocab and new language style.

However:

1) It can be quite annoying to listen to the repeated recorded audio as long as you did not get the correct 

    word typed in.

2) You can never playback the audio even though you click on the pause button, everything will start from the beginning!

lyrics training.

Beatles - All My Loving, Music Video, Song Lyrics and Karaoke

Here comes another awesome learning website for English learners throughout the world. Lyrics Training.com is a very well recommended website for learners who love learning English with music. From this website, learners can choose any song from their favorite singers,listen to the lyrics and fill in the empty gaps,all at once. Don't worry if you missed any of the words because the application will automatically pause until you get the right words keyed in. If you still unable to find the word, just click on the help button and everything will be sorted out.

This website is suitable for all level of English learners as there are three selections of level provided which are for the beginner,intermediate and expert.

The positives about this site:

1) It is undeniably amazing to learn language just through listening to songs.

2) It may act as a tool for personal listening practice for learners.

3) Suitable for all level of learners.

2) A very precise tool. Both listening and writing skills are compiled in just one activity.

3) Young learners may see this approach as one of the most suitable way to learn a language.

4) Increase learners' vocabulary and lexical item as they may discover any new word in the lyrics.

5) It is a quite efficient application since learners just need to type in the missing words but if only they were 

     unable to get the correct word, the song will automatically pause for awhile.

The not so positives may be: 

1) Some songs may not be appropriate for learners especially the young ones. It could be in terms of the      

    appropriateness of words, the spelling, the grammar as well as the sentence structure. 

dvolver.

What is Dvolver?

Dvolver.com is definitely the coolest website for students to come up with their very own movies. Acting as the director, students are allowed to choose their preferred settings, characters and write down their own scripts in the timeline. This website is suitable for students with low and intermediate level of English, as this activity provides a platform for them to freely write about their thoughts. Precisely,  the young learners, aged between 10 to 15 years old can make full use of this website to indulge in their creativity by creating an interesting short movie.

The advantages of this website are:

1) Students can express their thoughts and creativity through making movies.
2) Flexible choice of words and language allow students to practically use the target language.
2) This activity encourages students to work on things by themselves, thus increases their level of autonomy learning.
3) If the activity is done in pairs or in groups, students may develop a face-to-face interaction in which may enhance their communication skill.
4) It can expose students to the world of technology and motivates them to learn new language.
5) The colourful visual may enhance students interest in learning language and make the lesson fun to the fullest.


However,the drawbacks could be:


1) A little bit time consuming as students with different level of proficiency may take longer time to finish the task.
2) Limited choices of settings,characters and situation thus may limit students' creativity.
3) Inappropriate use of language may occur as students are not fully monitored while creating the dialogues.