Wednesday, 17 April 2019

BBC Learning English



Explore some of the various sections of the 'Learning English' website, watch some of the video clips and try out some of the activities. 
What is your favourite section? Why?
How do you think you could use this website in your teaching practice? 

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45 comments:

  1. My favourite section is grammar reference because there are a lot of sentences to learn and each sentences are easy to understand. I can use this section in my teaching practice. I will use the exercise in this website to practice my students because all exercises are suitable for students in grade 8.

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    1. I agree with you. I love grammar section. This website can show a lot of technique how to teach grammar that suit with our grade 8 students.

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  3. My favourite section is pronunciation reference because there are a lot of sentences to learn and each sentences are easy to understand. I can use this section in my teaching practice. I will use the exercise in this website to practice my students because all exercises are suitable for students in grade 8.It is useful to study.I am happy to show this exercise to my students.I hope the students happy too.

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    1. I am glad you found this section useful, Yoyo!

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    2. Thank you so much,Amilcar!
      Love you

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    3. Most of the time I'm worried to find more technique to teach my students. Until I learn from this website. It's very useful for me.

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  5. On my opinion all sections have important I can adapt to my lesson such as newspaper,magazines and listen to bbc news for to use vocabulary and update new stories.

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    1. Yes, indeed, there is a lot you can do with what is available in this website!

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    2. I had got many knowledeges with you. Thanks for your good suggestion.

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  7. My favorite section is news.In my opinion I think reading involves the learners in reading huge amounts of text to build fluency,confidence and the ability to process text quickly and make them know about the event in the present.I can use this section in my teaching practice for my class.

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    1. Good to hear you found the website useful, Pen!

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    2. Thank you very much for your suggestion.I didn't know before this website.I used other website, newspapers and the Nation Junior magazine you know.Next, I will try to use this website that you told me.

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    3. I hardly use newspaper to teach my students because Bangkok is difficult for students but I sometimes use students weekly or I

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  8. My favorite section is grammar. In my opinion, I think it is a good section because there are 3 grammar guides for each different lever, basic, intermediate, advanced. Moreover, there are many video clips as the grammar game show to explain the use of grammar.
    I think I can apply the grammar game show video clip which is the same content of the learning target of my student in Grade 8 as a game for practicing in classroom

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    1. Yes video clip is very good. I can learn how to teach grammar fun.

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  9. Yes, it is definitely possible to have fun with grammar, isn't it?

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  10. First of all I want to say thank you, Teacher to encourage me to read more text than I used to.
    My favorite section is grammar, I always create my own innovation to encourage my students to participle in my class. I can adapt the activities than I learnt to teach grammar to my students. It can make my class more interested. And the topic of grammar point is suit with course out line for grade 8 students. I have never used with
    BBC resources. It's the first time for me. I hope to know more from this website

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    1. Yes, it is definitely a good resource to use with your students!

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  11. From BBC learning English, I like the section of news and grammar. For BBC news, I think it’s useful for my listening skill. I can practice using English in my daily life. Moreover, I can adapt to my teaching. For grammar section, there are various of activities that my Ss can learn and do exercise. Besides, the lesson also provides in different levels. It’s easy for teachers to use in the classroom.

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    1. How are you planning to use the BBC website to practise listening skills? Why not focus on listening and grammar at the same time? The students listen and complete gaps with the correct verb forms, for example! It may take time to write up the script, but it is definitely a good idea.

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    2. Thanks for your good suggestion. I will preapre the lesson for listening and also focus some grammar point from listening.

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    3. I hardly use news for my students in grade 8 . But I learn more vocabularies when I have free time. Next time I will try to use news for my students.

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  12. My favorite section is grammar. I think it useful for me and students. I can practice grammar and use it teach students. The activities are interesting. I can adapt activities in my classroom. Many sections interesting in BBC.

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    1. How often do you think you could use this online resource with your students? Once a week? Once a month? Once in the semester? Once a year? Consider using it but only when you think you can!

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    2. I use this online resource with students once a week.I practice them about vocabulary , pronunciation, grammar, conversation, I can practice them for 4 skills, listening,speaking,reading and writing. It has many activities to hep practice them. It 's interesting for me.

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  13. My favorite section is pronunciation. In my opinion I think this section very useful for me and my students, there are many interest of topic such as "The Sounds of English: Other Consonants especially how to say "r l" ,that I have the problem now. The activities are interest.I can adapt the activities than I learnt to teach how to correct and better about pronunciation for my students. It can make my class more interested. I and my students are more confident when learning about reading skill speaking skill and others. Thank You teacher and BBC.

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    1. How often do you think it would be possible for you to use a resource like this? Would you have time to supplement your lessons with materials from this website?

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    2. I think I will use this online resource always in my class and design it's in homework for my students.

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  14. My favorite section is grammar. Because there are a lot of sentence to learn and easy to understand. I can use this section in my teaching practice. I can use the exercise to teach students I think the exercise are suitable for my students.

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    1. Would you use the website to present, practise or help your students prepare to produce language, or all of the above?

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    2. I will use this website to my students in any step. It depends on my lesson plane.

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  15. My favorite section is vocabulary. Not only there are the sounds describing the rules or functions but also there are the video of someone doing something. Therefore there are the activities that I can answers the question by select the answer from the list. Then I can check the answer after doing each item.

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    1. Is the website a good resource for all the different steps in teaching and learning vocabulary (presentation, practice, production) or is there a particular area that the website provides teachers more help with or ideas for?

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    2. Yes. The conversation in the video shows the words and describes the meaning that easy to understand and there are the words to show their definition and and use them in the sentences.

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  16. My favorite section is news.Variety news that is useful and proper in each student levels.
    I choose the variety news to practise their reading skill. Moreover students get to know about many vocabularies and events around the world.

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  17. Are your students interested in reading the news in general or would they be more interested in reading variety news from around the world? Would you choose the news items yourself or perhaps get the students to choose one and retell/summarise in small groups?

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    1. Yes, they are. I notice when the students have free time that they spend their free time search the new things to read on the internet. Then they would like to ask me that they suspect about the news in different countries. Yes, I would. I try to choose the proper news for the students and let them join group work .

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  18. Thank you for introducing me a very useful BBC Learning English website.My favorite section is the video clip on grammar game show. It’s challenging. I will let my students to experience it. There are also other interesting sections that I can use in my listening and grammar classes.

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  19. A grammar game show! That sounds very interesting! How would you like to use this resource, by demonstrating to the whole class or getting your students to explore the website at home or in the library?

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  20. My favorite section is vocabulary. In my opinion, I think it is a good section because there are many ways for each different lever, basic, intermediate, advanced. Moreover, there are several ways to learn the vocabulary I prefer game most.
    I think I can apply the vocabulary game is the same content of the learning target of my student in Grade 8 as a game for practicing in classroom

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