36 Tools for Digitising your ELT Course Book

Vocabulary developmentWordlehttp://www.wordle.net/ create Get students thinking aboutthe vocabulary from thetexts theyare studying.Wordnikhttp://www.wordnik.com / Get students ﬁnding outmore about words andcreating their own wordlists.FlickRiverhttp://ﬂickriver.com Brainstorm topics usingvisual to stimulatevocabulary and existingknowledge.Going beyond word level Phras.inhttp://phras.in / Get students tohypothesize and checkcollocations.PhraseUphttp://www.phraseup.com

/ Students can ﬁnd outwords that are commonlyused together.

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PronunciationForvohttp://www.forvo.com

/ Get students to dopronunciation research andﬁnd out about otheraccents.HowJsayhttp://howjsay.com

/ Get students to exploreword stress and findrelated words.Making example sentences nd texts more interesting Flickr Poethttp:// www.storiesinflight.com/ flickrpoet/index.php Students can make visualrecords of sentences orillustrateshort poems orparagraphs.Phrasrhttp:// www.pimpampum.net/ phrasr/ Create visual slide shows ofsentences or short texts.http:// www.pimpampum.net/ phrasr/?id=27157

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Transl8ithttp://transl8it.com

/ Students can translateexample sentences to textspeak and keep them as arecord. They can build uptext speak dialogues.PhoTransEdithttp:// www.photransedit.com/ Online/Text2Phonetics.aspx Students can translate textto phonetic script and keeptheir example sentences orshort texts in phoneticsGoing beyond sentence level Telescopic texthttp:// www.telescopictext.org / You can show students howto add detail to sentencesand theycan examinesentence structure. theycan also practice addingdetail to their ownsentences.Developing receptive skills WallWisherhttp://www.wallwisher.com / You can create receptiveskills work which draws onvaried sources anddifferent types of media.

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