53030128 36 tools for digitising your elt course book

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36 Tools for Digitising your ELT Course Book

Vocabulary development

Wordle

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Get students thinking about

the vocabulary from thetexts they are studying.

Wordnikhttp://www.wordnik.com/

Get students finding outmore about words andcreating their own wordlists.

FlickRiverhttp://flickriver.com

Brainstorm topics usingvisual to stimulatevocabulary and existingknowledge.

Going beyond word level

Phras.inhttp://phras.in/

Get students tohypothesize and checkcollocations.

PhraseUphttp://www.phraseup.com/

Students can find outwords that are commonlyused together.


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Pronunciation

Forvohttp://www.forvo.com/

Get students to dopronunciation research andfind out about otheraccents.

HowJsayhttp://howjsay.com/

Get students to exploreword stress and findrelated words.

Making example sentences nd texts more interesting

Flickr Poethttp://www.storiesinflight.com/flickrpoet/index.php

Students can make visualrecords of sentences orillustrate short poems orparagraphs.

Phrasrhttp://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/

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Transl8ithttp://transl8it.com/

Students can translateexample sentences to textspeak and keep them as arecord. They can build uptext speak dialogues.

PhoTransEdithttp://www.photransedit.com/Online/Text2Phonetics.aspx

Students can translate textto phonetic script and keeptheir example sentences orshort texts in phonetics

Going beyond sentence level

Telescopic texthttp://

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You can show students howto add detail to sentences

and they can examinesentence structure. theycan also practice addingdetail to their ownsentences.

Developing receptive skills

WallWisherhttp://www.wallwisher.com/

You can create receptiveskills work which draws on

varied sources anddifferent types of media.


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Simply Boxhttp://simplybox.com/main

You can create readingtasks that exploit multipletexts and get students tocollect their own selectionsof texts.

Twurdyhttp://twurdy.com/

You can find texts basedaround key topics for lowerlevels far more easily.

Tag Bulbhttp://tagbulb.com/

Students can exploremultiple sources and mediatypes based on a theme.

Checking comprehension

Urtakhttp://urtak.com

You can create yes noreceptive skills tasks andstudents can compare theiranswers with others.You can get studentsthinking about discussiontopics.You can get students

creating polls.

Intervue Mehttp://intervue.me

You can get students toanswers comprehensionquestions verbally usingvideo.You can create discussionquestionnaires for them.


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Getting deeper into a text

Cue Prompterhttp://www.cueprompter.com/

You can develop studentsgist reading skills.

Cloze Test Creatorhttp://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html

You can create instantinteractive cloze test tasks.

Momorizenowhttp://www.memorizenow.com/

You can create instantdialogue builds and gap fillactivities that test studentsabilities to recognise wordrelationships.

Developing grammar throug receptive skills

Bat Lyricshttp://batlyrics.com/

You can find songs that linkto key grammaticalstructures or lexis.

VYouhttp://vyou.com

Set up your own grammarq&A video booth. Getstudents to ask youquestions.


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Getting students practicing f nctional language

Dvolverhttp://www.dfilm.com/live/mm.html

Students can createdialogues. You can createshort scenes that illustratetime relationships.

Makebelief Comicshttp://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Students can createdialogues and link them tocontext.

Xtranormalhttp://www.xtranormal.com/

Students can createdialogues or news reportsor more complex animatedscenes.

Developing students speaking skills

MailVuhttp://mailvu.com/

Students can send inreports and homeworktasks verbally using video.

AudioBoohttp://audioboo.fm

You can record and publishaudio directly from yourclassroom.

Controlled practice


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Voxopophttp://www.voxopop.com/

You can create discussiontasks. You can set drillsand get students to listenand record their responses.

Listening comprehension

Listen and Writehttp://www.listen-and-write.com/

Create your own listeningactivities for dictation orlistening close tests.

ESL Videohttp://www.eslvideo.com

Create your own viewingand listening tasks based

around video fromYouTube.

VYouhttp://vyou.com/ Get students to listen andinteract with real people.


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Developing writing skills

Sync Inhttp://sync.in/

Get students to work ontext collaboratively in realtime.

Write or Diehttp://writeordie.com/

Get students to write and tofocus on fluency anddrafting ideas rather thanaccuracy.

Posteroushttps://posterous.com/ Get students writing andpublishing while integratingdifferent media into theirblogs.

Bookrhttp://www.pimpampum.net/

bookr/index.php

Get students to writeillustrated reports.

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