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● Learning Chocolate
What is it about?
How might you use it in a language teaching context?
● Have students work individually
● Select a category of vocabulary you'd like them to learn
● Encourage them to listen carefully and try to remember as many words as they can
● Encourage them to imitate and speak out the words
● Ask them to write down or look up the words they are unfamiliar on the dictionary,
and later they can compare them with their classmates.
● Learning Chocolate
What is it about?
● Help the learners remember vocabulary in an easy and efficient way
● Pictures and sounds come with the vocabulary.
● Games are provided to make learning vocabulary fun
● Select the category
● Select the category
● Press the button of each vocabulary (below) the picture to listen
● Try the games when you are familiar with the sounds and vocabulary
Why is the content good for language learning?
● Pictures and sound help linking the words to the meaning
● Learners could practice as much as they like, which leads to self-direct learning
● Individual learners can learn at their rate.
● The interactive function makes learning vocabulary fun.
● Games are motivating and sometimes learners like challenge.
● The repeating function enhances listening and pronunciation
● The interactive function makes learning vocabulary fun.
● Games are motivating and sometimes learners like challenge.
● The repeating function enhances listening and pronunciation
How might you use it in a language teaching context?
● Have students work individually
● Select a category of vocabulary you'd like them to learn
● Encourage them to listen carefully and try to remember as many words as they can
● Encourage them to imitate and speak out the words
● Ask them to write down or look up the words they are unfamiliar on the dictionary,
and later they can compare them with their classmates.
● Once they are familiar with the vocabulary, have them play the game.
● Check their scores, and make sure they can pronounce each word
● Encourage them to challenge "fill in" and "dictation" games when they are able to
spell the words.
● If some of the students finished all of the session quickly, you can have them
challenge another related category of vocabulary.
● Encourage students to challenge each category of vocabulary at home. It helps
them foster their autonomous learning.
● Encourage them to challenge "fill in" and "dictation" games when they are able to
spell the words.
● If some of the students finished all of the session quickly, you can have them
challenge another related category of vocabulary.
● Encourage students to challenge each category of vocabulary at home. It helps
them foster their autonomous learning.
Limitations~
● Need sufficient computers for each students
● The levels of vocabulary in each category are different. Some are too difficult.
● The levels of vocabulary in each category are different. Some are too difficult.
● Vocabulary should be learned in sentences to learn how they are used.
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● Review
Learners can click the sound
Try to be familiar with the pronunciation, the continents and oceans and
their locations
Learners click the sound and drag it to the matched word.
● Match up 2
Learners drag the continents and oceans to their locations.
● Match up 3
Learners drag the sound
they hear to the matched continents and oceans.
● Fill in
Learners fill in the continents and oceans they learn.
Learners click the sound and fill in what they hear.
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