Throughout this week I have been very busy with paperwork and other urgent things. Real life events made me work intensively. Nevertheless, I tried to focus on Webskills week 4 tasks too. The discussion board offered very good teaching ideas and useful links on reading, writing and vocabulary. The reviews to these links given by Webskills course participants were very helpful. For example, Lauri's ESL Website reviewed by Charbel had very nice readings with definitions. I think I'll use the texts about Identity Theft and Searching the Internet in my Computer Skills class. I cover these topics in the class, but in the past I've been using the texts from ClassOut magazine.
The websites BreakingNewsEnglish and Manythings.org, which were also reviewed by Eugenie, Cecilia and others, offer great amount of resources for EFL teachers and learners. I've been using these websites for a while and find them very useful. But thanks to Webskills course, I spent more time going deep into the sites and find many other useful pages withing these websites. Especially, I think the mp3 files with their transcripts about American History which are available in http://www.manythings.org/voa/history/ will be very helpful for my students. Also, breakingnewsenglish has very interesting texts+ listening as well as pre-while-post reading activities which are very user friendly. For example, the website has a text with an intriguing title World's First Flying Car Makes its Debut and I believe it will be good to use in my class and will surely initiate hot discussion afterwards. All in all, I truly think that Webskills course and its participants are going a great job reviewing and giving their opinion on websites!
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