Lesson Eight - BBC and VOA, Quizlet and LinguaLeo

Hi, everyone! This time we are going to study several links that can help us in studying English. Let's start!



Task 1
Today we'll work in groups and explore some sites that can be of use for people who study English. First, go ahead for 5 minutes, explore the site by clicking the link below. Find the answer to the queations:

• What can you find on this site? 
• Is it comfortable to use? 
• Can you download audiofiles? 
• Are there video tasks? 
• Are there tasks with the keys? 
• Are there tasks for different level speakers? 
• What do you find most interesting and useful?

Group 1 go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Group 2 go to http://learningenglish.voanews.com/
Group 3 go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english

Task 2


Cards are known as an effective way to remember new words. At present, you can easily find online ways to do that. One way is site Quizlet.
Go to quizlet.com and make a set of vocabulary cards for the 5 new words you found while reading the news stories at BBC / VOA. Insert your cards set into your blog (the same post), then, go and practice with other peoples' cards.



At home 
 
1. Study another useful site: Lingualeo.com. Surf "the Jungle" there, add several words in your dictionary on the site, try different ways to train the words, look at the ready-made sets of words. You can also add a Lingvaleo application to your browser and it will help you to translate the words in any online text and add the unknown words to your dictionary. 

Post your impressions from Lingualeo and ideas how you can use it for your studies.

2. As usual comment on three posts of other students