where can you find free games online for learning English I'm going to show you two great websites
completely free I'm going to take you through how to use them so you know all the key features
and then I'm going to suggest a couple of ways that you might use them for learning English
really hope you like the video and as always if you do please like it please share it and
please comment on it I'd love to know which of the websites you like best let's get started
so the first website I'm going to show you is called learning chocolate it's got
tons and tons of vocabulary it's also got games if you just quickly let me take you through this
I'm going to show you a couple of special features that you might not realize exist let's do a really
quick example we'll just do daily routines I'm going to click here and just show you basically
what happens you get some basic vocabulary which you can click on and listen to wake up get up I'm
not so keen on that I'd rather hear the sentences rather than the individual words but afterwards
you've then got a series of games let's just have a look at a couple of examples arrive at school
and then you drag the word in arrive at school comb my hair comb my hair again all right you drag
my hair and then of course you can click on the check answers to see if you got them right you
can click back here to move back to the activity and try a different one this is quite a nice
one because it's a spelling based game get up and then you have to write in of course the word here
and then again after you've done them all you would check your answers if we just click back
again to come back here in fact if we click here we come back to the home page a lot of
people think that that's it that's all there is to learning chocolate but I want to point out that
there's actually a little bit more and I'm going to take you through some of the features now first
of all if you come up to the top here you might get the impression from having a quick look at the
website that actually there's not a lot of content or it's low level first of all if you click here
see all you're going to see that is actually a lot more contact in fact there's masses of content on
this website and more and more being added there's actually pages and pages and pages of vocabulary
now not only that the levels really vary and I can just show you an example if we click here under
categories and what we're going to do is look for something a little bit more difficult so we're
going to choose engineering and technology and if I click here you'll notice suddenly the level
jumps right up when we've got lots of vocabulary very specific for example look at this just to
give you an example we would come here these are all tools this vocabulary is very very specific so
it isn't necessarily low level and every single set of vocabulary has these games and activities
that you can do to get back always use this button here that brings you back to the front page you
get a bit of an idea here that there really is so much content in fact it's a bit overwhelming
if you click on see all you'll realize there is absolutely masses and masses of content available
to you more than nine pages of content on here and some of this as i said goes into lots of detail
around the vocabulary let's have a look at another example let's go to cloves very common topic and
again we've got all these different words on the screen and we've got these activities some of
these activities are actually quite nice you've got a fill in one where you write the words in
if you click back here you've got a match activity where you click knickers and then
you drag that into the correct words and if you click back here again you've got a couple of uh
oh in fact you've got three different types of match activity this one's with the written words
it's working a lot on the audio it is a shame that you don't hear the words uh in a sentence notice
here that I'm practicing use UK English if I want to I could change that and do us English okay so
there is the option of that as well and that will actually change some of the words as well because
the words that you would use uh in american english sometimes vary from english english
you don't have to have an account with learning chocolate and I haven't had an account in the past
now I do have an account one of the small advantages of having an account is simply
that you can save the words into your favourites so for example if I click here then I can have
my favourites and just to show you that how that works let's say that I go back to learning
chocolate and there's some words that I really like and I want to add this to my favourites
and I can click here add to favourites and if we then come down to my account now you'll see that
those words have been added into my favourites I'll now have both the daily routines and the
basic feelings but you don't need to have an account remember you can practice with different
accents and remember also that there are other languages so if you're studying another language
like French or Spanish Chinese etc you can also use this website for those languages as well
now the second website is called digital dialects dot com as you can see there's lots of different
languages that you can practice here and in fact it's great because it's got polish which is the
language I'm studying we're going to look at the English one so we're going to click over here on
English you get lots of different topics again most of the time this is individual words which
is not always good it's better to hear words in a sentence but I'm going to show you an idea at the
end of how you can use both learning chocolate and this site let's just have a look at this website
so let's choose for example something really simple we'll do fruit and veg we can click here
it's going to open up a website and you'll see straight away we get a list of the words which we
can click on apple cabbage carrot and then we've got here a series of games that we can also play
so let's just have a look at some of these games and what we're going to do is we'll do a game
we've got let's do game audio so we click on this one here so after we've listened to the words
we can click here the games opens up onto the screen and in this game let's just click on play
apple you've got to click on the correct image so I'm going to click there I think that's right
orange and then i'm going to click on orange i guess it's that one there
strawberry and notice that it's keeping a record of my score so you can see really easy that you've
got these games that you can play connected to the vocabulary that you're learning they're not
particularly interesting but they vary the games are different depending on the vocabulary you
can repeat the word okay if you want to go back home click here to bring you back to the main
page uh you're in the English section now you've got loads of vocabulary to work from
okay now if we just choose another topic let's just say for example general vocabulary so we're
going to click on this one here again it's going to open up onto the screen
and I'm going to again practice the words if I want car key and I've even got some flash card
games here to actually help me to learn the words and then I've also got these options we've got
the games with the audio which is the way that I like it best the games without the audio and we've
also got a spelling quiz as well so we've already looked at the audio games let's just click on that
though because I just want to show you one thing about this is that not every game is exactly the
same so in this game here for example we've got a clip on the correct word newspaper bicycle house
island
car bicycle
flower
bird okay so you can see that the games do actually vary
so it's worth having a little look at some of these games uh that are available to you
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Now one of the biggest problems for me of working with these types of websites is yes it is useful
to play those games it does help you a little bit to hear the words and understand the word but it
doesn't really help you to understand the word in context and using it and a good idea is to go to
google translate google translate is free if you have a google account and what I do is if I've
got some new words that I've learned for example in polish well I write them out in English and
then I've got them in polish but what I do is I actually use the word in a sentence so let's
say for example I've learned the word fish what I would do is say I like eating fish for lunch and
then I can see what that sentence will actually look like in polish and I can click and listen yes
and I can click here and add that word to my favourites or in fact not the word the sentence
so if I click here that now becomes a word that I've added to my favourites
now anytime that I want to see my favourites I can just click down here and you'll notice see
that I always try to learn a word in a sentence rather than just learning the word on their own
and what I can do now is revise them so I can listen
okay so I can actually practice the vocabulary that I have learned and if I want to
I can actually bring that onto the screen here as well so for example just come down double
click on the word that you want to to bring onto the screen so if you double click on it
you'll find that that word will then come onto the screen and you can listen to it from here
okay so that's a great way of building up lists of vocabulary in sentences obviously take the
words from learning chocolate or from digital dialects do the exercises they are useful to
give you the base but you want to be hearing the new vocabulary in a sentence and google translate
is a really good way of doing that I really hope you found that video useful I'd love to know which
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