Pronounce Some Daily Expression

Move mouse to the English word and a real man will say the word. 點到句子就真人發音。

Greetings

Hello, Hi, Good morning, Good night, Good-bye, bye,

See you soon, See you later

Please, Thank you, You’re welcome.

Excuse me, Sorry,

Congratulations, Good luck

Numbers

1~21  30  40  50  60  70  80  90  100  101  200  1,000  10,000

100,000    1,000,000    1,000,000,000     1,000,000,000,000

Time

時間，季節，星期，早中晚，月份等

更多單字圖解發音，請上 LanguageGuide.org

Embed any videos into free wordpress.com blog

WordPress.com雖然好用，但功能受到許多限制。除了側欄的widget無法自訂外，很多網站上的影片都無法直接embed，實在很不方便。自己架站又費時費力，只好將就著用。

現在，只要有VodPod，將影片放在VodPod中，就提供wordpress.com可接受的embed碼。

Puzzle Maker

您想讓自己的照片變成拼圖嗎？

拼圖製造機中文版含教學

或

Photograph Puzzle Maker

What’s SO good:

You don’t need to download anything.  Just upload a picture and choose pieces size, and you can play at the link or just embed it.

在教學上的應用：

將單字或中文字在螢幕擷取後上傳，學生可玩猜字遊戲。

中文範例

英文範例

Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

Summary of the E-Book: (53 pages)

Teaching Listening:

1. Listen and Write — http://www.listen-and-write.com/  (also writing)

自建聽寫測驗的好工具，適合各種不同程度的學生。

A dictation exercise creation tool.  It offers a number of options to support and develop students ability to listen.

How to use it with students

• Create your own activities - You can create your own dictation activities for your students based on the audio files that you want them to understand.
• Track you students progress – Ttʼs an ideal tool for creating homework tasks. If your students are competitive you can also keep a class scoreboard to show which students are doing best.

2. ESL Video — http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php

自建線上選擇題。可寄給學生連接或直接內嵌到自己的部落格。學生看完影片後做答並得到線上回饋。註冊後，學生可以傳送他們的結果給老師。但老師要建立學生帳號並告訴學生。

It enables you to create web based interactive quizzes based around
online videos. You can create a variety of multiple choice type questions, add transcripts or translations, add notes , etc. Once you have completed your quiz you can either send students a link to it on the ESL Video site or you can embed the quiz into your own website or blog.

The quizzes you can create are mostly multiple choice. Students watch the video and
select their answers.  They can then get some feedback on their answers.  If you and your students are register users of the site, your students can send you their
results. To do this you need to create a class ID and give your students their code.

How to use this with students

• Video task for homework – You can create video based quizzes for your students to work on for homework.
• Student created tasks – You can get your students to create quizzes for each other. These could be based around video that they like or they could find or create a video which demonstrates understanding of a particular language point you have been working on.

Teaching Writing:

1. Penzu — http://www.penzu.com/

A simple online tool for creating a personal journal.

How to use it with students

• Writing portfolio - You can use it to set written homework task for students. These are then neatly stored and can be reviewed as a kind of writing portfolio and shared with parents or employers.
• Model process writing – You can use it to create models for writing activities. You could use a new entry each time you redraft to show how the text changes through the process steps of brainstorming and drafting to the finished product.

2. Dvolver Moviemaker – http://www.dfilm.com/live/mm.html

動漫製造機

It enables you to create your own animated cartoons by selecting from a range of characters backgrounds and scenarios and adding your own dialogue text bubble. The movies can then be sent by email or embedded into blogs or websites for others to enjoy.

How to use this with students

• Social expressions – You can create movies which demonstrate social Englishlanguage points or phrases and expressions being used in context. This can really liven up presentations of new language for students.

• Vocabulary examples – You can ask students to create animations which incorporate specific language points or vocabulary.

• Create conversations -You can give your students images of some of the characters + a context background for where they meet and then ask them to brainstorm a conversation between the two characters. They could then use the site to produce a ʻpolishedʼ final version of the conversation to share with other students.

• Tell jokes - You or your students can use the site to get the characters to tell jokes(often told by two characters). These could be jokes that are translated from their L1 or you could get students to search through online joke sites to find something they like.

• Film festival - Set up your own film competition to see who can produce the best 3+ scene film. The best ones could then be embedded into a class blog or website.
• Demonstrate time relationships – You can create animations that demonstrate time relationships for teaching tenses.

3. Wordle — http://www.wordle.net/create

Create colorful graphic representations of texts.  You can change fonts and colors as well as the text direction.

How to use this with students

• Revision of texts – You can paste in short texts that your students have studied recently. Show them the word cloud and see if they can remember what the text was about and how the words were used within the text. You can build up a bank of word clouds over a semester and pull them out at random to get students to recall the texts they have studied and the key vocabulary in them. You could also see if they could rewrite or reconstruct the text based on the word cloud.

• Prediction – You can create word clouds of texts before the students read or listen and ask them to make predictions about the content of the text based on the word cloud. They could also check any new words from the word cloud that they are unsure of before they read or listen.

• Dialogue reconstruction – You can create a word cloud of a dialogue students are studying and use it as a prompt to remember or reconstruct the dialogue.

• Short poems – You can generate a word cloud from a short poem, then ask students to create their own work based on the word cloud.
• Personal information – You could get your students to each create a text about themselves and then turn it into a word cloud. You could then put the clouds up around the class and see if the students could identify each other from the cloud. They could exchange clouds and use them to introduce each other.

4. Wallwisher — http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/teachersweb20

留言牆，留言者不須註冊，就可留文字、圖片及影片，作為提問者的回應。可做為研習工作坊時，第一件請學員做的事–寫下對此研習的期望。學員只要在牆面任意處快按兩下即可留言。

Wallwisher is like a virtual ʻstickyʼ notice-board, though unlike real notice-boards you can post stickies with text images, links to websites and even videos.

How to use this with students

• Video tasks – We can create video tasks and get students to post responses to the wall by leaving it open for everyone to contribute.

• Treasure hunt – We could use the wall to collect different links to various resources around the web for students to explore, a little like a web quest or treasure hunt.

• Theme based walls – We could give students a theme and get them to create their own walls based around that theme.

• Fan walls – We could get students to create fan walls based around a favorite band or celebrity.

• Share resource links – You can use the wall to collect and share resources.

• Image based tasks – This activity uses an image to get students to practice using present continuous.
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• Grammar walls – We can even create grammar walls and get students to post what they know and examples of different verb tenses or grammar points.
• Wishing walls – We could even get students to post their wishes on it using third conditional.

Teaching Speaking:

1. Voxopop — http://www.voxopop.com/  (also listening)

A web based audio tool that enables users to record their speaking for others
to listen and respond to.

How to use it with students

• Narrative building - You can record the first sentence of a narrative and then ask students to listen to the thread and add a sentence each to the story.
• Dictations - You could record your own online dictation texts. Get the students to listen to the text, and write down what they hear and then record their own version of the text for you and other students to listen to.
• Pronunciation drills – Record some pronunciation drills and get students to listen to them and then record themselves saying the words or sentences.
• True false statements – Record some statements about yourself and get students  to leave questions for you to find out which of the statements are true. You can leave your answers to the questions online too.

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Grammar Central

Grammar explanation and online quizzes.

NOUN & PRONOUN:

1. Contractions （縮寫）
2. Person （人稱）　　Gender quiz （性別判斷）
3. Pronouns （代名詞）
4. Noun or Pronoun? （名詞與代名詞的區別）
5. Noun or Verbs? （名詞與動詞的區別）
6. Object pronouns （受詞）
7. Possessive Adjectives （所有格）　Possessive Adjectives Quiz（所有格選擇）
8. Relative Pronouns （關係代名詞）

VERB:

1. Verb (“to be”) （Be動詞）
2. Verb (“to be”) Negative （Be動詞的否定）
   Negative “to be” Quiz （Be動詞判斷）
3. Verb “to be” Question form （Be動詞問句）
4. Past Form of the Verb (“to be”) （Be動詞的過去式）
   Past “to be” Quiz （填Be動詞的過去式）
5. Past Negative of the Verb (“to be”) （Be動詞的否定過去式）
6. Verb (“to have”) （有）
7. Verb (“to have”) Negative （有的否定）
8. Past of the Verb (“to have”) （有的過去式）

SINGULAR & PLURAL:

1. Number (singular or plural nouns?) （名詞單複數）
2. More plural nouns （複數加s的規則）
3. Irregular plural nouns (“o”) （不規則複數 o 結尾）
4. More plural nouns “f=>ves” （不規則複數 f 結尾）
5. Really irregular plural nouns （真正不規則名詞）
6. Borrowed irregular plural nouns （借自希臘或拉丁字）
7. No singular irregular plural nouns （無單數型複數名詞）

TENSE:

1. Simple Present Tense （現在簡單式） 　Simple Present Quiz （三單加s測驗）
2. Simple Present Tense Question Form （現在簡單式的問句）
3. Simple Present Tense Negative Form Quiz （現在簡單式的否定）
4. Present Continuous Tense （現在進行式）
5. Simple Future Tense （未來簡單式）
6. Simple Past Regular Verbs （過去簡單式-規則變化）
   Simple Past Regular Quiz （過去式加ed測驗）
7. Irregular Verbs I ‘A-B’ （不規則動詞過去式A-B）
8. Irregular Verbs II ‘C-E’ （不規則動詞過去式C-E）
9. Irregular Verbs III ‘F-H’ （不規則動詞過去式F-H）
10. Irregular Verbs IV ‘K-M’ （不規則動詞過去式K-M）
11. Irregular Verbs V ‘P-S’ （不規則動詞過去式P-S）
12. Irregular Verbs VI ‘S-S’ （不規則動詞過去式S-S）
13. Irregular Verbs VII ‘T-Z’ （不規則動詞過去式T-Z）

There is/are

1. There is/are （有）　There is/are Quiz （There is/are單複數測驗）
2. There is/are Negative Forms（There is/are的否定）
3. There is/are Question Forms （There is/are的問句）

OTHERS:

1. Confusing Words I (易混淆的字 I）
2. Confusing Words II (易混淆的字 II）
3. Good & Well Quiz （形容詞 good & 副詞 well）
4. Adjective or Adverb Quiz（形容詞與副詞的判斷）
5. Opposites （相反字）
   gender, action, physical, location, personality
6. Articles – Indefinite （不定冠詞）　Indefinite Articles Quiz （填 a/an）
7. One & Ones Quiz（不定代名詞）

All the activities are from ESL Activities Online.