a nice and useful website for learning word groups

  http://www.learningchocolate.com/



What is this?
Learning chocolate  is an amazing  English language learning website and it can be used in the classroom or at home.It provides various materials for learning vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.It can be utilized to enhance learners' listening skill.
          
Why  is the content good for language learning?

•  it represents  an authentic material,
• it  is  a good tool for learning  words with their spellings and pronunciations,
• it is made to provide learners with wide a  variety of word groups,
• it is an interesting  and attractive website since it is colorful and it is equipped with pictures, different types of  exercises and a good quality sound system. this makes learners motivated to learn more, 
• it help learners to be autonomous. they can access the materials at home,
• it reduce  the affective filter which according to Krashen (1985) hinders the process of acquiring a language,
• it is suitable for students with different levels and different age groups,
• it fosters  students' listening skills.

How it might be used in the class?  
 A teacher can divide the class into groups of two or three students and then asks them to think and write together different  types of fruit  or name parts of human body. After that, she asks every group to quickly shares what they wrote with the whole class. After this activity, the class can watch the web and practise the pronunciation and spelling of  this group of words.

Limitation

• it requires access to the internet which my not be available in the class,
• there are odd words that even native speakers do not use or know as in the activity about parts of bull's body.