1) MyWordBook
- I like this one because it is set up by Cambridge University Press and the British Council; the set up is very practical. It offers simple words, the type of word (noun, pronoun, etc.) and allows for a definition and translation. You can take tests on this app along with reviewing the words you have learned in the app. When you review words that you know, you put a check mark by the ones you recognize and an X by the ones you do not. This is also like an online ESL program we used at a school in Japan where I teach in the summers.
2) English Grammar 2
- This app offers over 500 questions to practice English grammar at the elementary level. Within this app is a list: present simple, present continuous, simple past, noun, pronouns, etc. Once you get into this list, there are lessons that educate you on that part of speech. This app also offers tests and flashcards. This app is constructed simply and is easy to use.
3) Baby Flash Cards
- This is a cute app with sound and is geared for younger elementary students, but I also enjoyed it. You have the option to put the app in question form or in the form of pictures and having the word displayed. When you put it on question, the app gives you four pictures and tells you, "Click on [this]" and you find the appropriate picture, click on it, and it gives an encouraging "You are awesome!"
This is free but has a lot of advertisements; the upgraded ad-free version is $1.99.
4) 50 Languages
- This is an excellent app that begins by asking you what your native language is; it then gives numbers in English first and beneath the English is the word in your native language. You click the "play" button and the word is spoken in English, which allows you to repeat orally. It offers flashcards and tests. Within the flashcards, the top flash card has a word in your native language, allowing you the opportunity to say orally the English translation of the word; you can then push the "play" button to hear it spoken and hit the "text" option to see it written. The test section offers multiple choice, word order, a bubble game, fill in the blank, and numbers. There are 100 lessons, broken up into 10 sections.
5) Classic Words
- I chose this because it is strictly a game that resembles scrabble. This will put into action what English the students know and are learning and can also see new words formed. It shows the correlation of letters to a variety of words.
Devin I like your Baby Flash Cards app. I will use this in my classroom because I like that it does do a great job with encouragement which I always look for.
ReplyDeleteThe baby flash cards app was really good and very cute. I didn't like how it seemed to go forever and that their wasn't like an end to a level; however, I could see how it could be very beneficial to young children trying to learn English.
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