Spend your class time doing the tasks below that seem most interesting to you. If you get bored, move on to a different task.
- Make sure you have activated your Feedly.com feeds (directions below).
- Take a look at some of your classmates' blogs posts and leave a comment.
- See how what level you can get to at FreeRice.com
- Try a phrasal verb, preposition, or other quiz at EnglishPage.com
- Try to fill in the gaps to Happy or Just the Way You Are at Lyricstraining.com
- Find out your Jungian personality type or take other personality tests at Similarminds.com
- Watch some language learning videos in your Feedly ELL Video Section
- Listen to Love at First Sight (or other ELLLO conversations) and answer the vocabulary and comprehension questions on the right side column
- Find podcasts to listen to at Podbay.fm/browse/all/ or on the Listening Materials page
- Watch pronunciation videos at: Sozoexchange.com or RachelsEnglish.com
- Play Popword (word tetris), global boggle, or other games listed on the Word Games page.
- Check out some jokes, introductions, quotations, or other sections of Google+ Language Learning Communities
- Explore other sites listed on the different language skill guides - Listening, Pronunciation, Reading, Writing
Assignment (don't do this during class time): Over the weekend, please create a short blog post describing which sites you checked out and which ones you thought were most interesting or useful.
Download eng317.opml
Log in to Feedly.com with your Google Account
Click 'Import OPML', choose file (find eng317.opml), and Import.
Click Organize again and click and drag the categories to the order you like. Then browse the hundreds of sites you're subscribed to.
Log in to Feedly.com with your Google Account
Click the three dots and 'organize'.
Click 'Import OPML', choose file (find eng317.opml), and Import.
Click the small arrows so they are pointing sideways. This will collapse each list.
Click Organize again and click and drag the categories to the order you like. Then browse the hundreds of sites you're subscribed to.
Feedly works well on mobile platforms as well - Android Apple
Language Learning Communities
Using sites where language learners meet, chat, and/or become online pen pals
Language Learning Websites
Jeff's Favorites
- FreeRice.com
- FreeESLMaterials.com
- UsingEnglish.com
- ELLLO
- EnglishPage.com
- Wordcount.org
- EnglishCentral.com
- Lyricstraining.com
- RachelsEnglish.com
- Similarminds.com
- Sounds of American English
- Ted Talks
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