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36 Tools for Digitising your ELT Course Book
Vocabulary development
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/create
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/
Create visual slide shows ofsentences or short texts.http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/?id=27157
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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://
www.telescopictext.org/
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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