What is the best platform specifically for language teachers I'm going to show
you one of the tools that I think is the best I've reviewed many of these tools but I think
Zengengo.com is exceptional if you want to set up activities grammar listening speaking activities
etc get all the students to log on do the activities and then to receive those activities
in one place where you can give feedback etc then this is an ideal tool it's a technology
made by teachers for teachers I think it's been really well thought through and I'm going to
show you some of my favourite examples of the tools within the platform there are actually
10 different games and lots of permutations so loads of activities you can do here anyway
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which of the activities you like the best let's get started so I'm logged into Zengengo remember
you can use Zengengo for free for one month and I'd really advise you to do that after that the
cost is ten dollars a month but you get a lot for your money and I do have a discount code
in this video that I'll share towards the end of the video that will give you a 20
discount so the first thing we need to do is to create a kind of folder for our class so I'm going
to click here and I'm going to call this new TTV class teacher training videos class click on ok
and we're ready to start and straight away you'll see that there's actually a lot of different
activities that we can set up for our students to do and what I'm going to focus in focus on is some
of my favourite ones and we're going to start with the audio recording i love getting my students
to do speaking activities for homework and then listening and giving them some feedback so that's
where we're going to focus first what i love about the audio recording is that we can give our
students a video to listen to or some text to read or some audio and then they can respond and record
a reply or comment on it or answer your question and that's exactly what I'm going to do so I'm
going to start by giving this audio activity a title we're going to call this presentation from
a bad speaker and the first thing I'm going to do is to put some instructions of what I want the
students to do so I've got text media type and I'm going to just say here watch the video and comment
on five mistakes the presenter makes so I've added my instructions now I need to add some more media
so I'm going to add some more media and the second piece of media that I'm going to add is simply a
YouTube video so click over here on video click on YouTube and I've got the video here that I
want to work with so all I need to do from the video is to click on the share button and then
copy that link really simple I'm gonna jump back to Zengengo I'll just paste in the video link
and make sure that you click on this button here okay that just updates and embeds the video into
the page so we've got a title some instructions and then the video now there are a few settings
and really quickly I just want to talk about a few of the settings down here I've done a lot
of work with audio recordings and you really don't need a lot of time in fact at the moment I'm doing
some of these activities for myself in polish and even one or two minutes is really challenging for
me and my level is around about kind of 1b so I would suggest perhaps two minutes for this one
okay allow students to pause if they need to pause is a good idea the rest of the settings
leave them exactly as they're set and click on the save button we are ready now to share this with
activity with our students so once the game's made all you need to do really is to click on
that button now copy link and share that with the students now actually we can click here as well
interesting enough and view as a student and see what it's going to look like and so if we
click here we can actually see what it's going to look like and I'm going to write in my name
tom and I'm going to click on next and what I'm going to see is I've got the title I've
got some instructions I've got the video to watch and then I can click on this button here and do
my recording now I want to show you very quickly what it's like for the student to do the activity
and then for the teacher to give feedback but it's really important that we set the feedback settings
what do we want to do how do we want to give feedback my advice is to set it
so that you can immediately email the students back their feedback it's the quickest way of doing
it I'm just going to show you before we move on to actually do an activity and actually see what it's
like for the students and give them feedback to show you a really important setting that you do
need to make sure you've got set before even really you start creating the activities
so what you need to do is to click on submission settings and make sure that you've got collect
students details on submission and collect student email and that's going to make it super easy for
you to give the feedback so i'm going to click on save and now you're going to see what happens when
the students do this activity so all i need to do is the teacher now is to share the link remember
here we we can quickly view what the activity is going to look like but here we can actually copy
the link and then share that with students we might be emailing it to them or perhaps you're
going to put it onto a platform you've also got the link at the top of the screen so let's log
in now as a student on a separate browser so we can actually see what the activity looks like for
the student so I'm going to paste in that link I click on enter and you'll notice that the first
thing I have to do is to complete my name and my email address and as soon as I've done that
as a student I can click on the next button so you come onto the screen you've got your instructions
you've got your video to watch and then you've got your record button here sometimes when you click
on this record button for the first time it's going to say can you connect to your microphone
of course say yes I'm going to click here and off it goes I can see it's working so testing testing
testing one two three one of the mistakes he makes is that he arrives late a second mistake he makes
is that he drops his pens on the floor I can pause if I want to okay and then once I've finished I
won't do any more I just simply click here notice I can play the recording back yeah and off it goes
I can see it's working so testing testing testing one brilliant and then I can once I've done that I
can submit it now remember I've given in my email address just click on ok the teacher will now
get that recording it does take a few seconds to upload as you can see at the bottom of the screen
and now we're going to go back and look at what it looks like for the teacher when the teacher wants
to give the feedback so if i refresh this page hopefully i will be able to see that a student
has done this work and i can see look that there has been a submission and I can therefore click
here so I'm on the back on the home page here now and I can view that submission and what I can do
is I can give feedback the student tom so I just click on that here I can listen to the recording
and then I can write some feedback in here okay whatever I want to say to the students a really
easy system to use I can even give a score so let's say I'm going to give this student 60
so simple to do and then I can send feedback so what I do is click on send feedback link okay
I think I've got everything first of all I've got to save it i must admit sorry i forgot to do that
got to save the feedback and then i can send it now we've already got the student's email
address so we just click on ok and immediately that feedback goes to that student now if there
was any more students who would just click here move on to the second and then the third
this controls as you move through obviously we've only got one student what a brilliant
system what a simple system to use and how effective that could be if you want to make
use of a code that will give you a 20 discount you can see the price plans here this is the
one that i would advise you to use but there is also teacher plus but this will give you plenty
of content obviously you will need to sign up and to sign up you can click here and just click here
choose a region for storage where there is nearest to you and then choose to sign up with either
google or with microsoft now you can use the free count for 30 days but you will need eventually to
upgrade if you click on upgrade here all you need to do is to add in the following coupon
ttv hyphen russell hyphen 2021 and then apply that and you will notice that the price has been
reduced so you can save yourself quite a lot of money uh and then obviously afterwards you
can choose whether you want to take enter your code press here and then afterwards choose how
you want to pay and on all these different products there is a twenty percent discount
okay so we've looked at the speaking activity and you can do the same with video so instead of
working with audio if you want to you could get the students to do a video recording obviously
they would use access to a webcam that would be the easiest way of doing that so you've got some
really good choices there in terms of getting the students to do speaking activities of course you
could set it that the students are doing the activity in groups or in pairs it doesn't have
to be individually now I'm going to jump over and just show you one more activity type I really like
many of the activity types but just because I don't want the video to be too long I'm going
to jump over and just show you one more activity type that I really like on Zengengo so it really
is worth looking through all of these activities but I'm going to just show you this one here
which is the text gap fill just because it's so easy and really is an activity that obviously
when it comes to grammar etc we often do with our students so I'm just going to call this gap
fuel activity this is going to be the second activity that we've done and all I need to do
again I'm going to input keep the settings to a minimum so I'm not going to do any media prompts
or anything at all I just need to paste in some text so just to save time I'm going to
use some text on my own website I'm just going to copy that text come back over to Zengengo paste
that text in and all I need to do here is to click first of all very important is to click on ok
ok this is where the magic starts we've literally added in some text and all I can
do now is come down to here and just say which words do I want to remove so I'm going to call
let's say founder and I'll do awards and I'll do
let's put technology and i'll do um university and let's see if any more just a couple of wallets to
channel and subscribers okay so simple as that all I've done is selected the words
and we'll leave those settings I'm going to click on save that activity is now immediately ready for
my students to do again I would need to share the link so let's actually share that link and log in
now as a student and see what the activity looks like so I've logged in as a student immediately
you can see that it's the same as before because remember we're asking for the student's email
address and I'm just going to complete this very quickly and we come through to the next page and
then we just get this opportunity to complete the text so here i'm just putting the words in okay
really easy
last one here so I'm simply gonna
sorry so subscribers done and submit and I'm gonna get immediate feedback actually in this
particular activity as well and of course that will mean that the teacher doesn't really need
to give any feedback but the teacher will know exactly what the score is what a fantastic
simple quick clear system to use and of course all that data comes straight back
to the student I'm sorry back all the data comes straight back to the teacher as well
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