How can we use web sites?

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Hello!

Today I am going talk about web sites. We as future teachers should use some useful web sites in our classes. But how? How can we decide this web site is credible? How we can integrate into our teaching? For answer to these questions, I made some research and analyze a web site. 

Let us look what we can do for rich teaching and learning.

As I said I have made some research to choose a useful web site and I find Cambridge English.

This site is about English language learning and teaching. It consists of different skills for different levels. In this site you can find different subjects you interested. For different levels there are different activities and skills. As you can see here, you can choose levels, time, skill and filter. This makes the usage easy.

There are lots of experts who write activities and prepare exams, videos etc. You can see their department know about their proficiency. You can see from 'about us' section lots of information. 

There are levels for every learner and you can easily find these. Pre a1, a1, b1, c1 etc. You can choose according to your students' level.

Here is an exercise example. This kind of exercises help teachers because they can use an exercise from this site after explains any topic. Students can understand more in detail what they have learned at the same time.

When you visit this site you will see how this site is but there are lots of well prepared works and generally none of them have accuracy problem as I see. There are not any broken links in this site. We can see lots of images and videos especially for young learners. But as the level gets high, the number of images becomes low. But I would want to see more and more activities, videos, songs for children. There are limited videos and songs. Nearly no videos are available for the other groups. I see activities which include different skills like vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, and pronunciation. Students can do some exercises according to your choice or they can find any activity according to their needs. 

I find this site so useful especially for young learners. For example there are songs we can use in the class and as you see from the screen shot there is a file about the song’s activity. This is a ready document. But as I see this activity document just for songs because I could not find different kind of activities. But we can create our activities of course. On the other hand there are some activities which improve some skills. We can give as homework for the students. They can improve their skills even they are not in the classroom. 

So we should use this kind of sites because our lessons should not be dull. It should be both fun and useful. Otherwise students get lost in difficulty of the lesson. We should use different ideas, tools to make our teaching better.