Featured websites to learn English

Useful websites for teaching English trough gamification in Primary School:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com This website provides tools to review various contents though entertaining games about:

• relating concepts 
• spelling words
•  time 
• completing sentences...

http://www.funenglishgames.com This website is divided into several sections:

• games about different skills (reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary)
• activities with great ideas
• worksheets for filling and colouring
• quizzes
• videos with instructions and songs
• fun stuff about idioms, anagrams...
• topics vocabulary  

https://www.adaptedmind.com/index.php  It is a BBC website where teachers design problems and instructive videos to help students develop ways of thinking about Maths in English. They also create a world where familiar characters, like Peter Pan, and monsters will make students interact through engaging stories. This website has a problem and it is not free.


Useful websites for teaching oral English skill in Primary School:

http://sermaestromola.es In this website, we choose the grade and English subject and we find various activities to practice oral skills. Songs are given great importance for reasons such as:

• They use real language
• Encourage creativity and imagination
• Connect with cultual and social issues
• They can be relaxing or stimulating

https://www.aprenderinglesgo.com/8-actividades-mejorar-speaking-ingles-oral-2066 It proposes eight interesting activities to practice oral skills in a creative and fun way, with games like:

• "Who am I?", to describe a character.
• "Tell me what to draw", to describe a drawing.
• "Taboo", also to describe a word without being able to name other words.

https://eleinternacional.com/blog/10juegos/  Again, the use of games for oral English practice is very important. Telling stories, "Pasapalabra", even outdoor activities such us playing "Pañuelito" are ideas offered by this website.

As we can see, in these websites we return to gamification, since games turn the class into an environment of creativity and imagination where improving the oral skill.

Useful websites for teaching written English skill in Primary School:

https://writeandimprove.com  Cambridge´s latest tool, which points out the errors of the text sent and gives advice about how not to fall back on them. Its feedback allows the student to be aware of what he has done wrong and be able to progress.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/describing.html This web gives the student the main tool to be able to write about a topic, a broad vocabulary with which to function. So we find vocabulary to describe people, to talk about tastes and preferences, hobbies, personality... It also offers texts that serve as models, and execises to practice.

https://www.educapeques.com/recursos-para-primaria/ingles  Here we can find complementary exercises for the classroom with which students will work in a creative and fun way. These exercises are divided by grades and in turn by evaluations.


Useful videos for teaching English in Primary School:

https://youtu.be/WVf30ZHHFh4 With this video, students will learn the hours in English. It is a long but very repetitive video with all the cases that may occur.

https://youtu.be/Gp29NK9YwNg "Learning English with Mr. Pea" . This character offers a series of videos for basic lessons in the first grades os Primary School, such as body parts, days of the week, numbers from 1 to 100, the present tense of the verb to be... The link I show is the one in the first lesson.

https://youtu.be/8irSFvoyLHQ This video shows us different situations with very useful dialogues in the daily routine, such as greetings, thanks. asking for things...

Concept map

In this post I show a concept map of the vocabulary of animals seen in the presentation of Powtoons. I have chosen Mindomo because it seemed an easy to use application. I have inserted it in image and also in video for more dynamic learning.

Educaplay

Another task that we must do in the Processes and Resources course is to develop two activities with Educaplay application. We´ve seen in class the amount of possibilities of this website; it´s able to choose the course and the area of knowledge, and you can elaborate from crossword puzzles and letters soup, to a roulette of words. I liked it very much. So that I leave the links to the two activities, both of them to work the vocabulary of animals that it´s been seen in the Powtoons presentation.
Activity 1.
Activity 2

Animals

                                                         

We are going to work the vocabulary of "animals" with a presentation for students in First of Primary School. For this, I´ll use Powtoons.
I´ve thought of a simple presentation, with images so that the students are able to associate the concepts. I´ve divided the animal into five groups: pets, farm, jungle, forest and sea.

Presentation of my blog.

Hi!!! I´m Cristina Navarro Otero. I´m 45 years old, I'm married and I have two children (17 and 11 years old). I'm currently studying English Specialty of Teaching, not only because it is the one I like most, but also because I think it is the specialty with more possibilities to work in the future.

I´ve created this blog to collect very interesting activities for when we are working with ICT in English class. Sincerely, I've known best of them when our teacher has been showing us them. I didn't know the amount of original resources that can be used when you are teaching.

I will try to make this blog a useful tool for me, both as a presentation and as a key site to gather everything that facilitates my work, and at the same time makes learning a game and fun for students.

Rania Essa shows my idea with a video:

But its a reality that teachers find many problems to use ICT with total normality.

  escuela20.com shows us the five main problems of teachers with ITC.