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VoiceTube is a tool to Learn English by watching subtitled videos, movies trailers, and music videos form YouTube! VoiceTube Tutorial I just made a tutorial video by screencast-o-matic. Please take a look at it and ignore some mistakes.😅 I love it because... ★ YouTube video is something we use quite a lot. With this kind of learning tool, it could be more than wonderful for autonomous learners. ★ It is like a personal helper. You can collect video list, word list, and notes. You will be able to go back at any time. ★ Listening and Speaking mode make you practise and you will be able to re-record if you are not satisfied. After recording, you can download it, it sounds like you become the voice-over. ★ It has in-built dictionary. If you have queries of words, you just click the word, it comes out explanation right away. ★ You can heart the words, and those words will become your own word list. ★ You can collect the videos add your own notes, it becomes yo...

As we all know BBC news, it also dedicate to English learning. Their official  English learning website has a lot of learning resources for learners to explore. There are 11 courses and 9 topics on the website. BBC Learning English is a special program from BBC to help people all over the world to improve their English skill. The program includes lessons, stories and news reports which are written in quite simple words and spoken at slow speed so that learners could understand them easily. What I want to recommend today is the app. There are tons of apps on app store that are about BBC learning English and I am going to suggest two of them. 1. Easy BBC Learning English  (ios) This app covers several topic from BBC. I recommend it because I just play the sound track while I am doing something.  And because the audio are short, just few minutes, it won't cost too much time.  After listening, you can always take a look at the transcript. ...

What Is Kahoot!? ★ Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform for teachers and all learners. Play, learn, have fun and celebrate together! ★  Kahoot! has very simple ways of making it work and we all familiar with, which are Quiz, Jumble, Discussion and Survey. ★  Kahoot! makes learning fun, inclusive, engaging in all contexts by CREAT, PLAY, SHARE, and REINFORCE. ★  The interface is very simple and intuitive. You can see the main four colours and shapes all around Kahoot!. ★  Kahoot! is available for all mobile devices. How to Make a Kahoot! Tutorial 6 Ways to Make Kahoot! Awesome This is from Kahoot!' official website. I like it very much because it makes me feel that Kahoot! really cares about educational points! There are also great points for teacher to think about! Take me for example, it did help me think before I make a Kahoot!. This article is highly recommended for teachers who first start using Kahoot! It is like teachers l...

Visit YouGlish.com I embedded the widget here. Feel free to try it. It will play automatically, please press pause to avoid sounds. When it comes to learning English, I guess many learners would love to better their pronunciation! Although we can check up the dictionary to see the phonetics of a word, sometimes we just don't know how to pronounce by ourself or we are not sure about it. You might say, nowadays, there are online dictionaries that provide sounds for us to listen to.  YouGlish offers learners a tool to listens to how real people pronounce a word in a context! Isn't that wonderful?! For me, myself, I feel excited because during my long learning years, I had this problem! I want to hear how people really say it in real lives! In the past, I would go search 'how to pronounce ***?' on Youtube, but what I could get is like a teaching video clip that just pronouncing it.  When you search a word on YouGlish, it searches the word on YouTube videos and g...

What is Word Cloud? As you can see above, it's an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency or importance.  Most word cloud programs work in the same, straight-forward way; the more a word is used in the text, the bigger it is shown in the cloud. How to make a word cloud? You have to have some texts to copy and paste in on a word cloud tool. Click the button. There you are. It will show you a group of words like the image above. Words are in different sizes and colours and you can change the colours, the layout, the fonts...and so on. Some allows you to remove words you don't want to show; some allows you to mark specific word from other word lists, i.e., Academic Word List...etc. Next, I am going to introduce some word cloud tools. Word cloud tools and its pros and cons There are lots and lots of word cloud tools you can find on the Internet. I'll just to name some that I ha...

What is Hot Potatoes ? The Hot Potatoes is a sex of six authoring tools, created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. They enable you to create interactive Web-based exercises of 5 basic types.  The exercises are standard Web pages using XHTML 1.1 code for display, and JavaScript (ECMAScript) for interactivity.  It is supported by all common browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and so on. Also, you can create exercise in any language, or in a mixture of languages . You don't need to know anything about XHTML or JavaScript to use the programs. All you need to do is to enter your data - texts, questions, answers etc. - and the programs will create the Web pages for you. Then you can post them on your Web site. Hot Potatoes is a freeware. You will be asked to register when you start the application. It is simply asks for your name; your name will be inserted into exercises...