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Explorica widget: travelling
27 November 2009, by laurenceb
An Odd-Cast widget to make your character and your friends travel. Upload your photos to create a movie Then write a detailed trip report or tell about it to the class.
Free Text To Speech
26 November 2009, by laurenceb
SitePal is a quality text-to-speech with a free demo tool to use in EFL/ESL: both for teachers and students
The Rushmore Faces Can Speak, Yes They Can!
28 April 2009, by laurenceb
Discover who the 4 faces on Mount Rushmore are... Watch and listen to them speaking to you.
The New Colossus: interactive poetry
2 April 2009, by laurenceb
Here’s a new series of interactive activities on the famous poem by Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus (1883) Book 1 - this set of activities uses the audio version of the poem as an anticipation to its study and analysis Book 2 - this set of activities focuses on language: metaphores, alliterations, etc. At the end of the book, students are encouraged to learn the poem by heart and recite it in front of the (...)
Like A Hobo
27 February 2009, by laurenceb
This series of activities on the excellent “Like a Hobo” by Charlie Winston (“Hobo” album, Jan. 2009) will be all the more fun as at least one student (or the teacher) can play it on the guitar. The activities consist in a matching exercise of the lyrics before listening a sequencing activity of the lyrics while watching, with no sound a series of questions about the title, the characters’ philosophy of life, and the grammar in the song Download the student’s worksheet (...)