Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Online games to teach english

Need a fun way to teach ELL’s students? Teach the students by the use of online games. Here is a fantastic website that teaches students different basic words such as animals, body parts, fruits, and other information. Click on this website to explore: http://www.1-language.com/memorymatchelem/index.htm

3 comments:

Catherine Gorbatuk said...

If only English was this easy growing up! I think this game gives an incentive for English language learners. I felt as though I wanted to win and I knew the answers. Games are always a quick fun tool to use in any teaching field. As an early childhood major, making topics fun and interesting is imperative to teaching. This website also could be used for reiteration of learning new words. On the site it goes into categories of what games you want to play, then it goes into different ways to learn the same words.

Kathryn Greves said...

This is a great site! I loved playing! Thank you for finding it! This will make learning fun for students! Students will not hate having to do work. They will be determined to succeed and try their hardest. Little will they know, as they are trying their hardest they will be learning at the same time. The games coincide with each other to help the learner. If the ELL student is having particular trouble with one word, they can go to another game, and sure enough it could be in that game. With the words showing up in different games it is more than likely they will eventually learn it with the reinstatement. This really is a great site!

Lili said...

I must agree with Catherine. If only English was this easy growing up! This website is great and not only are the kids playing, they are also learing but in a more fun way. This is a great way to spice up a class. Sometimes lesson just get to "boring", as the kids say, and this is definately a way to go.