all righty let's see if this is working okay Sandra can you hear me hi Sandra
can you hear me can you hear me oh you can't hear me hey I'm gonna let you in
on a secret I can hear her but I'm not gonna let her know that no work for me
look familiar in this video I'm gonna be showing my favorite resources for
teaching listening reading speaking of writing to your English learners as well
as my favorite platforms that you can teach these activities on and then just
some tips and tricks that will help boost your video quality so that your
students will be engaged in the lessons that you teach the first resources I
want to share with you today is called ESL video and it is a wonderful platform
for teaching grammar in the context of a video so let's dive in and let me show
you how it works what I like about ESL video is that it is a free platform that
contains a wide variety of videos that range all the way from the beginning
level of English language proficiency all the way to advanced and within each
video there is a short clip that is focusing on a specific tense whether it
be the past tense or the past progressive and future tense and so
forth and you start off by assigning a specific code to your class to log in so
that when they answer the questions that mediately follow the video the score
they're able to see but then it gets sent to you so that you know which are
the areas of weaknesses they have to work on a wonderful resource to get your
students to listen to the weight the pattern or speech and how it should be
read and fluency is story online oh my goodness this is an awesome website if
you've never seen it before and let me show you what it looks like story online
is a free and rich resource that contains dozens and dozens of books on
many different levels and the books are read by famous authors
and accompanied with each book our specific activity guys and there's one
for teachers to give you an idea of what type of assignments that you can assign
for your students and if you're wondering where students can enter their
specific answers to the questions I have a resource for you so you may be
wondering where do students store all of their answers to the questions or to the
activities that you give them well I'm gonna show you two of my favorite
resources one of which is I'm gonna post a video and the link in the description
below but this resources is awesome because you can actually store all of
the activities on there in padlet and you can just watch a tutorial as I've
done this video before and it can give you an idea of how you can use it but
the second resource that I highly recommend is Google classroom what I
like about Google classroom is that it is a free web service developed by
Google for schools and it aims to simplify creating distributing and
grading assignments in a paperless way and the primary purpose of Google
classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and
students I'm also going to link in the description below a tutorial for your
benefit so that you can learn how to integrate Google classroom in your
online English teaching for more reading and writing practice I recommend ELC
study zone ELC study zone is for students for English language learners
and the teachers what they do is they create English language lessons and
practice exercises this site is also assigned or designed for adult English
language learners but in all honesty as I look through all of the assignments
they're really for all learners and the beauty of is that it has detailed study
guides and short lessons followed up by an activity that they can practice the
skill and each lesson is comprised of a grammar reading and listening vocabulary
and puzzles which is wonderful because they get to end up completing the
assignment with something fun and interactive and
great resource which is call ello it contains dozens and dozens and dozens I
mean probably over 2500 ESL video and audio lessons scenes and step I'm
telling you you can spend an entire day just discovering all that this website
has if you would like to provide in a free platform in which your students can
be able to ask you questions you can answer some quick questions on the fly I
recommend you teach and it's basically a chatroom and what's nice is that you can
stream out and just let it be just your students and by giving them a specific
code and they can enter in and you can have an interactive session with your
your students another great resource for getting lesson plans is call share my
lesson and what I love about this website is that it contains lessons for
all grades in different subject areas and you can actually filter it out
specifically for English language learners and it gives you a star rating
on the right-hand side so you can see what other people thought about these
lessons and you yourself can also upload and share lesson plans that you've
created but they have everything ranging from oral recounting reading and
analyzing also Dolch noun words noun cards the story of the hour higher-level
thinking questions anything you can think of from vocabulary from reading
from writing and the powerful thing about this website is that you can
tailor it specifically to the language proficiency level of your students as
well as whatever standards so if you're depending on where you are around in the
world or where you are in the United States you can tell her specifically to
the standards that you are teaching so if you're wondering what type of
resources and how can you teach multiple students at one time there are many
platforms the first one I'm going to share with you is called zoom and the
power of this one is that you can meet with up to 1,000 video participants and
you can have 49 videos on school you know you can feel confident that you're
meeting securely with your students it also has the ability to have recording
and transcripts and it just gives you the opportunity to actually teach a
short lesson which I recommend to make it short
and then allows your students to know exactly what they're supposed to be
doing that day for the lessons that you're teaching as I mentioned before my
one of my favorite platforms for gathering students together when it's
more than let's say 25 students is zoom meeting but you can also use Google
Hangouts which is part of the G suite family its productivity plan of
first-class conferencing service it's developed specifically for business
needs but you can always alter it specifically for the use of students and
what's nice is that you can use data from other applications like if you're
using Google classroom and a big plus is that it doesn't come with a month
monthly cost that other providers might charge but other free videoconferencing
software zoom meeting Skype free conference Google Hangouts and Cisco
WebEx meetings which I will all list in the description below so before you
think you have to go out and buy the latest technology and spend lots of
money stop you do not have to you can simply use the webcam on your computer
you can even use your phone and if it makes it easier you can also record next
to a window where there's sunlight to bring in that natural light but make
sure that you practice a couple of times before you actually start a class
because you want to make sure that students are seeing you in the best
light so that they can see you and also but just try practicing with the
internal mic that already comes with your phone and your computer
I also recommend to make sure that you play around with the levelling of your
computer so you want to make sure that you get the best angle possible most eye
to eye so that you're making eye contact directly with your students so I know
that I am only touching the tip of the iceberg when it comes to wonderful
resources that you can use for teaching your students as well as free platforms
so if there's a resource or a platform that I haven't mentioned that you use in
your costumes please join in on the conversation in the comments section
below by sharing what you utilize in your school thank you so much for
watching and tune in next week for more tips strategies and resources for the
English language learners your classroom