Why is it good for language classes?
- It helps to improve students language skills.
- Students can practise their speaking and writing by getting in touch with English people.
- In each grammar exercise there are a section for explaing the rules of that grammar point.
- Tasks and activities are provided in an accessible and interesting way which can stimulate students to learn more about English.
- It offers tasks and activity for students' with different language levels.
- It is motivating
- Students can access other useful links to learn English such as culture and history of English, friends around the world, quizzes and activities and sound and vision.
- It can make students autonomous.
It coild be utilized in many way in language teaching contexts. Some of these uses are as follow:
After finishing a lesson about one of the grammatical rules, for example, a teacher can ask the students to go to this website and click on the category of grammar exercise and test. Then answer the question related to their lesson. It is useful if the students work in pairs and share their understanding of the rule.
Students can use it to practise their listening. The teacher can ask the students to listen to one of the . After listening, students can discuss what they understand from the listening activity.
At the end of the term, students might go to online assessment tests and check their English progress.
Students could also used at home to learn new vocabulary or to develop their reading skills.
Limitations
The answers are already provided which may make students less motivated. This could lead students to be passive and just depend on these answers.
Some categories of speaking part are not free.
I think not all categories are easy to navegate.
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