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The game machine W2L Info Published on December 1st, 2013 | by What2Learn Are you looking to make your own study game? At What2Learn you can quickly and easily create an incredibly wide range of interactive learning activities including hangman games, quizzes, interactive word searches, extended writing activities and much more. No technical skills or programming knowledge is required to make these fun and effective study games – simply fill in the blanks with your own questions and answers and your flash-based game is instantly created and available for your students to play online. If you would like to create some games in the meantime, please sign up for a great value student or teacher Premium Account. Take a look below at the fantastic games you could soon be making… Hangman-style study games Simply provide eight single word answers to make your game. Q & A quizzes Provide eight questions and answers. Anagram study games Provide eight questions and answers. Matching activities Interactive wordsearches

More Than a Game: 6 Great Uses for Scrabble in the ESL Classroom What game is produced in twenty-nine different languages, has sold over 150 million copies worldwide and four thousand clubs all its own? It is Scrabble. This word game was created by Alfred Butts in 1948 and has become a worldwide phenomenon. If you have never played Scrabble before, it is really quite simple. Each player has seven letters at any given time and must arrange them into a high scoring word, which must connect with the words already in play in a crossword style game board. How to Use Scrabble in Your ESL Classroom 1New VocabularyLearning new vocabulary is the most obvious use for and benefit of Scrabble in the ESL classroom. Ultimately for the ESL student, a high score in Scrabble is not what is most important. Whether it is spelling, meaning or just pronunciation, your students will benefit from exposure to the words they and you play on the Scrabble board. What games do you find most useful in your ESL classroom? Enjoyed this article and learned something?

Quizalize - A Fun Quiz Platform Quizalize is a newer quiz game platform that reminds me of Kahoot. Like Kahoot, students play your quiz games on their laptops or tablets by going to the Quizalize website then entering their names and a class code. Students are awarded points for correctly answering questions quickly. Students are given feedback instantly on every quiz question that they answer. A total score is presented to students at the end of every quiz. Creating quizzes on Quizalize is a simple process. Quizalize offers a marketplace in which you can find quizzes created by other users. An overview of Quizalize is provided in the video embedded below. Applications for Education One of the better aspects of Quizalize is found in the results page that you see as a teacher.

The 15 Best iPad Apps For The World Language Classroom The iPad has fundamentally changed how and what I teach in my Spanish classes. First of all, I no longer use textbooks. Ever. Six years ago, I did not know how to download photos from my digital camera to my computer and annoyingly had to ask my husband to do it for me. No matter what level of world language you teach, there are a lot of apps available. For Gaming 1. For Presentations 3. iMovie 4. For Annotation 6. iAnnotate For Studying 7. For Recording 10. For Creating Comic Strips 11. For Brainstorming 12. For Writing Stories 14. For Organization, Document Sharing, and Collaborative Work 15. Teachers are often terrified to try new apps or websites because they do not fully understand how to use them, and they do not want to seem unknowledgeable in front of their students. About The Author: Sarah Wike Loyola has been teaching middle, high school and university courses in Spanish for nearly 14 years.

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No-prep ESL Vocabulary Games for Young Learners | English Teaching 101 Running out of tricks? Here are some quick vocabulary activities for kids that every ESL/EFL teacher can rely on anytime of the day. They require little to no preparation and some can be given to kids and adult learners by adjusting the level of difficulty. Ready to get your class off to a good start? Read on! 1. The teacher writes preferably an 8-letter word or longer on the board and students make as many new words as they can using all the original letters from the given word exactly once. Variation: When checking the answers, cross out common words that appear in at least two of the teams. 2. The teacher writes a scrambled word on the board that students need to un-jumble in their teams, e.g LEJMUB –> JUMBLE. Variation: For more advanced students, you may give 3 or more jumbled words at once which they need to solve in 1 minute. READ: Easy-to-use Online Vocabulary Games Generator 3. The participants are divided into groups and each group forms a line. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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