8 The Best Websites for Learning English

One of the success key in learning English is about what the appropriate resources or media that we usually use.  In this Article I wanna share to you about some the best website that might help you in learning English. Here 8 the best websites for lerning English that I think you'll enjoy it!


1. Many Things
This is the best website, which incorporates coordinating tests, word amusements, word bewilders, axioms, slang articulations, re-arranged words, an arbitrary sentence generator and other PC helped dialect learning exercises. The site additionally incorporates an uncommon page articulation, incorporating practice with insignificant sets. Not the fanciest or most lovely site, but rather with parts to see and utilize and no publicizing.
2. British Council Learn English
Here you can find free video and audio resources for learners of all ages and at all levels, including games, English skills through football, a mini soap opera, podcasts, articles and a discussion forum to ask questions, find advice about learning English and make friends from all over the world.
3. Duolingo
A great website for learning vocabulary and grammar through interactive games and quizzes. There is an emphasis on pronunciation as you have to repeat back words and complete each lesson correctly before moving on to the next. It also lets you set your own goals and monitor your progress.
4. Live Moca
This website pairs you up with someone trying to learn your language so that you can have an online exchange with a real native speaker and become part of a global community of language learners. Everyone helps out with comments, corrections, tips and encouragement. You also have access to English lessons and various resources for listening and reading practice.
5.TED
Here you can find hundreds of fascinating short lectures by experts in everything from design to psychology. Although not strictly a website for learning English, it is very accessible to non-native speakers. Subtitles are available in English for every talk; unlike subtitles for movies and TV shows, which are abbreviated versions of the actual dialogue, TED subtitles are complete, meaning they’re great for listening practice. A transcript is also available.
6. BBC Learning English
The BBC website for learning English has lots of free resources, including courses at different levels, an online drama to follow, vocabulary, grammar and listening practice, words in the news and graded articles on all sorts of interesting topics. There are sections for kids, teens and adults.
7. Easy World of English
An attractive, user-friendly website including grammar, pronunciation, reading and listening practice and an interactive picture dictionary.
8. Learn American English Online
English became a world language because of the rise of the US in the 20th century, but ironically most of the resources you can find teach British English. While British and American English do share a common root, they are very different. If you are interested in learning American English, check Learn American English Online.
The site has seven levels (blue, red, yellow, green, purple, orange, and violet), so even if you are new to English, you are welcome (the blue level is for you). What I really like about this site is that it offers dictation – something you typically don’t find too often included in the curriculum.

Lesson Plan for Teaching English

Here some example of lesson plan for English teaching, every lesson plan has a different characteristic. So, you can choose what is the appropriate lesson plan to your teaching english....

1.Lesson Plan


Subject              : Writing poem using blog
Time Alocation    : 1 x 30 menit (1 meeting)

A.    STANDARD COMPETENCE
The students are able to express and read a poem properly.

B.     BASIC COMPETENCE
The students are able to read a poem with the right pronunciation and understand the meaning.

C.    INDICATOR
The students know how to search a poem on blog
The students are able to perform a poem with a right pronunciation

D.     TIME ALLOCATION
1 x 30menit (1 meeting)

E.     LEARNING METHOD
Communicative learning

F.    LEARNING ACTIVITY

Pre- activity (5 minutes)
1.The teacher asks the students about their background knowledge about poem.
2.The teacher asks the students about their experience in reading poem

Whiles activity (15 minutes)
1.The teacher explains what is poem.
2.The teacher ask the students to search a poem on blog .
3.The Teacher ask one student to read the poem.
4.The teacher tells the students how to read a poem properly.
 5.The teacher asks the students to work on groups and identify the meaning of  the poem
 
Post- activity (10 minutes)
1.The teacher give a comment about their performance, also evaluate their work.
2.The teacher ask the student’s opinion about this activity.
3.The teacher closes the meeting.


G.    LEARNING MEDIA
–          Whiteboard, internet connection, smartphone
H.       EVALUATION
Each student should perform the poem in front of the class and the Teacher gives a score for their performance.

2.Lesson Plan
School
: SMA Al  Ishlah Surabaya
Subject
: English
Class/Semester
: XI / 1
Lesson Topic
: Expressing of relief, pain, and pleasure
Aspect/Skill
: Speaking
Time Allocation
: 2 x 40 minute (1x meeting)
Meeting
: 5

A.      Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson, 75% of the students (75% out of 17 = 12 students) are able to identify expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure, as well as using them while interacting with another person.

B.      Learning Materials
Expressions of relief
Expressions of pain
Expressions of pleasure
  • Good heavens!
  • Thank God I am alive.
  • Thank heavens.
  • I am relieved that...
  • God bless me.
  • God bless you.
  • I thank you.
  • I’m so grateful.

  • Ouch!
  • It hurts so much.
  • Please, leave me alone.
  • I can’t tell my pain in words.
  • It brought me a lot of misery.
  • My heart is so burdened.
  • I’m so sad to hear this.
  • It’s wonderful.
  • How marvelous
  • I am pleased with it/that.
  • It’s my pleasure.
  • It gives me pleasure.
  • That’s great!
  • That terrific.
  • I am happy with…
  • I like/love it.

C.      Learning Model and Technique
1.       Direct Instruction Model                    : Nur, M., & Kardi, S. (2000). Pengajaran Langsung. Semarang: Pusdat Sains dan Matematika Sekolah Program Pasca Sarjana UNESA.
2.       Think-Pair-Share (TPS) Technique  : Gunter, M. A., Estes, T. H., & Schwab, J. H. (1999). Instruction: A Models Approach, 3rd edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

D.      Learning Resource
1.       Examples of expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure.

E.      Instructional Media
1.       White board.
2.       Marker.

F.       Lesson Plan/Steps of Learning Activities
Meeting
Activities
Aspect
Lesson Activities
  Duration
1
Opening

1)       Teacher greets the students and checks their attendance.
2)       Teacher prepares the students in learning by praying together.
3)       Warming up activity before teacher gives learning material to students.
4)       Teacher gives information about the learning objectives needed to be achieved.
5)       Teacher asks the students about the material to be studied.
10’
Core
Exploration
1)       Teacher explains about expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure.
2)       Teacher gives examples of expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure.
3)       Teacher directs students to pair up one-on-one; if there is an odd number, students may have three people in one group.
15’
Elaboration
1)       Teacher gives further examples of expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure by demonstrating a short conversation.
2)       Teacher instructs the pairs of students to make sentences containing expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure.
3)       Teacher asks the pairs of students to create a short conversation containing expressions of relief, pain, and pleasure for them to perform in front of the class.
30’
Confirmation
1)       Teacher calls out three pairs of students to come forward and demonstrate their short conversations in turns.
15’
Closing

1)       Students give corrective feedback to each other
2)       Teacher provides feedback to students about their performance to improve their understanding.
3)       Teacher concludes the material that has been learned.
4)       Teacher gives assignment to students.
5)       Teacher ends the class.
10’

3. LESSON PPLAN

Subject: English
Class: X
Material: Describing about a Tourism Place
Time: 2 x 45 '

Basic Competence:
1. Arranging simple oral and written descriptive texts about people, tourist attractions, and well-known buildings, taking into account the purpose, the structure of the text, and the elements of language, correctly and in context.

Indicator:
1. Determining main ideas that contain tourist attractions that will be described according to the context
2. Write descriptive text about tourist attractions in accordance with the structure of the text and elements of language.

Learning objectives :
1. Students can determine main ideas that contain tourist attractions that will be described according to context.
2. Students can write descriptive texts about tourist attractions in accordance with the context.

Media: Power point
Tools: Laptop, LCD, Internet

Learning steps :
Pre Activity
Time: 15 '
Activities:
1.  Teacher says salam to students
2.  Teacher asks one of the students to lead a prayer together
3. Teacher prepare students psychologically and physically to follow the learning process
4. Teacher delivering an outline of the scope of the material and the purpose of learning about the activities that will be carried out by students.

While Activity
Time: 60 '
Activities:
1. Students pay attention to simple descriptive written text explained by the teacher
2. Students are asked to answer questions from simple descriptive written text
3. Students are asked to identify linguistic characteristics and generic structures of simple descriptive writing
4. Teacher explains the meaning of topics, main ideas and generic structures from simple descriptive texts.
5. Teacher assigns students the task of drafting descriptive texts about tourist attractions.
6. Students draft descriptive texts describing tourist attractions.
7. Teacher gives feedback on descriptive text that has been made by the students.
8. Teacher instructs students to develop descriptive text and upload it on the blogger site
9. Teacher explains how to create a blogger account and how to post articles about descriptive text.
10. Teacher explains the purpose of uploading descriptive text about tourist attractions on the blog
11. Students work on the assignments given by the teacher

Post activity
Time: 15 '
Activities:
1. Teacher together with students makes a summary or conclusion of the lesson,
2 Teacher reflects on activities that have been carried out consistently and programmed.



Google Drive for Writing Collaborative

Hi guys, how are you today? I hope you in a good condition. After long time I don't writing anything in my blog (because I enjoying Eid Fitri's holiday), in this opportunity I'd like to share to you about writing collaborative using google drive.




Why I recommend you to use google drive in collaborative writing? Because there are many free tools for writers, and Google Drive is one of my favourite. The Documents part of the suite (Google Docs) is excellent for writing articles and other short pieces
If you're working on a document with another writer, each of you will be assigned a different cursor colour. This allows you to observe each other's writing contributions in real time.

So, to know the example of making a collaborative writing use google drive you can watch from a video, here a simple example that I and my grup did : 



After you doing a collaborative writing, you can share the result in any social media and It's easy to share documents. You can give someone permission to view and edit a document by sending them an email notification and a link to your document.

Google Docs is free with a gmail account. It's always improving and it's the collaborative writing tool I use most.

Make a video conference using Hangouts

Have you ever meet people through a video call? How's the feeling? 

Now days there are plenty of application that has been provide to make a video call, one of those is google Hangout. Google Hangouts quickly became that default, easiest-to-use video calls option for many teams thanks to it running in your browser and being deeply integrated in Google's other apps. Create a new Google Calendar event, and you'll get a Hangouts video chat link included automatically—and can pick up your chat conversations right inside Gmail.


Hangouts' video calls are still there, but if you're working with a team and have scheduled meetings, Google Hangouts Meet or just Meet is the app to use. It's Hangouts, designed around scheduled calls. You'll book appointments first in Google Calendar, then open meet.google.com and jump on the call when it's time.
For the most part, Meet is the same as Hangouts' video calls—only with a fresh new design focused just on video chat. There's no text chat—that's saved for the companion Hangouts Chat app. Instead, you'll get full-screen video with up to 25 participants for G Suite Basic and Business plans and 50 participants with G Suite Enterprise. 
You can go watch on this video if you curious how hangouts work to make a video call, but I'm so sorry if the sound is off. Because we can't record the sound's video on hangouts : 

 

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