Wednesday 28 November 2012

Click n Learn

"Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire" (W.B. Yeats)

Upholding the principle above, http://clicknlearn.net/ is a website introduced for interactive English language learning and teaching. This website allows students to experience various interesting activities thus it portrays an active method to language teaching.

Several important highlights about this website are as follows:

1. Easy to use (direct)



2. Contains different options for topics, levels and categories. Example:

Example of topics


Examples of topics: 
-Colors                             -Conditionals
-Numbers                         -Modal verbs
-Classroom                       -Clauses
-Professions                      -Idioms
-Schools                            -The UK
-Park                                 -The BBC
-Weather                           -British Education
-Passives voice                   -The USA
-Infinitive                           -etc...












3. Contains sounds of how the words are pronounced (good for pronunciation improvement)




Students have to drag the pieces into correct position.
This puzzle is about professions. 
4. Interesting activities (e.g.: matching right answers to the right categories)
For example: students do the puzzle









5. Develop students' skills or knowledge in :


  • listening (some activities require students to listen carefully and answer the question)
  • vocabulary (different topic will have different sets of words used)
  • reading (students are required to read instruction/extracts/sentences)
  • writing (some activities require students to write answer or sentences)
  • pronunciation (some activities require students to pronounce the word)

6. Meaningful exercises 
  • Most of exercises demanded students to do practice about the topic that they had just learnt. (skills used are such as remembering, applying, classifying and so on)
7. Easy for teachers (it provides list of index and contents.See below)


Some preview of index of unit and contents



However, two weaknesses of this tool are found so far,which are:




Regardless of the weaknesses mentioned above, it is still advisable for teachers to use this tool in teaching because:



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