Innovative ESL Teaching

 Quizlet.com is an ICT tool perfect to create materials for our ESL classes. I have used the free version to create this set of flashcards:  Quizlet ICT Tools It's a good option to review vocabulary, or to use as a warmer, at the beginning of the lesson to review what has been covered so far. I wanted to try to create a multiple choice activity, because I had used some of the activities that are made public on Quizlet before and I really likes them, but this option is only available to Quizlet Plus subscribers. Anyways, the flashcard option is good enough to create beautiful interactive materials for our classrooms, and combining them with other kind of software, we can create stunning lessons in just a few easy steps.

 I am sure that you have used Kahoot several times as a student, but have you had the chance to create your own materials with this ICT tool? Here's the link to the Kahoot that I've created for this activity:  Kahoot created by myself Kahoot offers a wide range of possibilities, you can create your on quizz from scratch, but there are also plenty of inspiring templates on different topics. I've just created my own Kahoot on the topic "Meet the teacher", that would be ideal to use at the beginning of the school year. I have done this by editing one of the many templates available on kahoot.com I hope you find it useful! Mariona

If you are looking for a tool to easily create printable exercises, I'd highly recommend you Puzzlemaker. Here you have the link in case you want to give it a go:  PuzzleMaker Discovery Education I've created this word search activity on the topic "colours", this is how the printable version that would be handed over to students looks like: I hope you like it and find it useful for your classes. Mariona. Bibliographic references: Online Puzzlemaker | Create Your Own puzzle | Discovery Education Puzzlemaker . (s. f.). https://www.puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

Wordwall is an ICT tool that is ideal to keep students engaged during a lesson. It can be used to assess students' prior knowledge before adressing a new topic, or as a warmer to review what has been covered during previous sessions, also during the main part of the class or at the end of the session, to make it more interactive and make sure that students are understanding what is being taught and, as well it could be assigned as homework. Activities can be displayed in different templates, such as, match up, quiz, random cards, anagram, group sort, random wheel, missing word, find the match, flash cards, matching pairs, unjumble, open the box, hangman, labelled diagram, wordsearch, flip tiles, crossword and gameshow quiz. In this link you can try a match up activity that I created with Wordwall on the topic "Animals": Animals in ESL Let me know what you think about Wordwall if you have the chance to try it. I, personally, love the visuals of this page, I think that the ...