LET'S LEARN WITH BUSUU !

Today, we will begin a journey that today's learners will enjoy it so much :) I will introduce a language app to you that you can install or you can use it your mobile devices. Thanks to the today's technology , we can use a lot of educational and useful apps. One of them is Busuu! With this educational app, you can learn kinds of languages such as English, Spanish, French, German etc. easily. That useful app provides grammar learning with a easy and enjoyful way. 

  LET'S LEARN, WHAT IS BUSUU ? 

Busuu is the world's largest social network for language learning. Through online and apps, it provides for language learners grammar courses. Busuu courses base on levels, A1, A2, B1, B2 . The users enroll to study one or more languages.

With Busuu, you can learn grammar , vocabulary easily and  you can improve your listening skills , reading skills and also writing skills. You can learn vocabularies with images easily and entertaining.

            When you look that image , you can learn something easily and , thanks to this app you can learn something visually. It means that possibility of forgetting something decreases. 

When you look at the image, you will see the course and branch of course . For example, in A1  we can learn numbers, animals, colours, our family, have/has got to and the other things.

When we select our course, we will begin to learn immediately! 

There are different categories in every lesson. Every lesson provides us a lot of vocabularies and grammar lessons.

• Do you know that busuu are used by thousand of people? That app is really easy to learn and useful and also educational .Therefore , a lot of people prefer to use this app. 

     

Personally, I prefer to use Busuu App. Because , it provides also practise with native speakers. I strongly recommend you to download the app, Therefore , you can learn a foreign language with ease and amusing. The opportunity of practising with native speakers is the best thing for the app. 

Don't lose time! Download the app and spend an educational time!

You can also find the review of busuu below ;

HEY GUYS! DO YOU WANT TO CREATE YOUR OWN DIGITAL STORY? IF YOU SAY YES , LOOK INTO HERE :)

Hello everybody! Until now, I guess that you may not hear what the digital storytelling. Don't worry! From now on, you can create your story. Me and my fellow worker Ertuğrul  are responsible for Digital Storytelling task this week and I want to share the process of our project in detail , thereby you can benefit from this example. I am sure that you will do . better after witnessing our experience.

• What is'' Digital Storytelling''?

Digital Storytelling is relatively new term which refers the new practice of ordinary people who use digital tools to tell their story. Simply, we can say that digital stories are multimedia movies that combine photographs, video, animation, music, sound, text and also narrative voice.

• How did we create our digital story and cap off it? 

• And,was it a difficult process?

After given the task, me and my fellow, Ertuğrul, decided to create a fictional story. For this duty , first thing to do was creating at least two  characters and create setting, atmosphere , the sequence of events, weather and the other things. We wanted a digital story, which is both entertaining and also it must be educational.For this reason, we had to choose a topic , which could  be taught the child easily. We decided to teach ''comparatives''. For our project, we benefit from'' Go Animate'', which is an online animation maker program. 

Absolutely, it was a difficuly process for us. We had to collaborate for this tusk . Firstly, we created our atmosphere and then we selected our characters.There were some significant points that we had to watch out for , the other ones improved immediately. The recording part is the most difficult one in my opinion. We wanted to create a real atmosphere, therefore we worked so much while we were recording our voices.

In our day , all people with a computer can create a digital story and teachers can integrate this advantage for their lessons and let their students to create their own stories and share them for everbody. Thus , the students can gain a better understanding of more abstract consepts. And also , the experience of creating their own story will stimulate the student's higher level  thinking. Thanks to this project, they will learn collaboration and they will gain self confidence and they will express their ideas easily. And also, this tusk will encourage them to communicate with each other. It is a really entertaining experience, so , if the students create their own stories, they will think that learning English is really enjoyable and amusing. In this way, they will want to learn more and more, they will want to discover more and more educational thing. 

Don't forget! We are the teacher of the future.We have to be equipped with technological tools and gadgets. We have to benefit from the power of technology . Therefore , we always aware of developments in the field of technology and we must practice this when we teach somethings

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• You can watch our digital story below. 

Website: BBC Learning English

Hello everybody!

Day by day, I have a really beneficial , educational and  precious  ideas about English Language Teaching. I know that you are really curious about my next educational post! Today, I will mention about an ELT website, which  is specifically  designed  for language learners. Our significant mission is  that searching  and evaluating  beneficial and educational things for learners as a teacher of the future. For encouraging and enabling  to  learners, I want to introduce to you with my useful website: BBCLearning English.

The BBC Learning English is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English Learning Teaching. The service provides free resources and activities for teachers and learners. It has been teaching English to  global learners  and teachers since 1943, enabling  lots of educational videos, free audios, text materials to learners all around the world.

When you look at the website at first , you will introduce with the team producers, writers and ELT specialists, and also you can have extensive knowledge about their qualifications and credentials in the section of ‘’Meet The Team‘’and you can see their profiles and meet the team. When you look at the website, you can see that there are three courses you can get easelly on the homepage. These include : Intermadiate, Upper- Intermadiate and Lower Intermadiate. 

The website include a lot of lessons, activities, and my favourite is 6 Minutes English. It is a listening activity which contains some basic questions about the passage or short story. These are maybe available for your students in the future or anyone else who learn English. And also, activities and some lessons are dowloaded to printing. Some examples from them; 

I recommend you it! If you want to learn English or improve your English levels, you can do this with the help of the website. Today's world technology is an undeniable advantage for us. We should use it well. Because in the future our students already know the websites, blogging etc. We help them not to get lost in the internet. We recommend some websites, blogs or some different tools to our students.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend this website for them! 

See you in my next posts!