DELICIOUS
This was indeed a "DELICIOUS" week as we went through the journey of opening del. icio. us page I think I am excited about this task. This is yet a new venture that I am proud about. At least now I have my own del.icio. us page though not as detailed as other colleagues' pages especially Shahnoza's. I hope you update mine while- and - post this course. To me the world is getting smaller and smaller as the course progresses as we learn new things every week.
AURAL/ORAL WEBSITES
This exercise admittedly presented some difficulties at the beginning. The problem emanated from misunderstanding the instructions: funny isn't it? Finally I was able to open the suggested sites and again I got mesmerized by the quantity and quality of materials available. I settled for http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ which handles phonetics which reminds me of my college days when you would make fun trying to pronounce different forms of /a/ sounds. My students also experience the same problem. The only facility the school has to help students practise pronunciation is through CD/DVD Media and radio VFS cassettes- again lack of technology.
The articles on listening and pronunciation rekindled the already dying fire in me. These two areas have been given a wide berth by many of us teachers. At least I was able to teach two lessons this week based on listening again using mostly textbooks.
Hi Francis,
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I visit your blog. I cannot start my comment without making a reference to those two beautiful lions you chose. They are gorgeous, aren't they? I love big cats.
About your reflections regarding this week's assignments, let me tell you I'm also taking baby steps in bookmarking, but I'm excited about it too. I think using "Delicious" is going to be very useful.
It's great to hear this course is providing you with so many useful tools to have your students work on listening and pronunciation.
I'm positive you'll be able to empower your colleagues by sharing these sites, which will result in an enriched teaching context for your students as well.
Best regards,
Margarita
Hi Francis,
ReplyDeleteGlad that you visited the bbc.co.uk website and reviewed its pronunciation resources! Here in my country, we don't have access to bbc at all.