elllo english ~learn english naturally!!

Bored with just pen and paper?

Interested of trying a  new style of listening activity?

Excited to improve your English language skill?

HELLLO ENGLISH is the answer!!!

What is it about?

Elllo English is another cool website that is specially design to help learners to improve their listening skills in a way that is more visually interesting and fun to do even if they are doing it alone.

It is wonderful site that contains nearly thousands of listening activities that covers a range of different topic all around the world for the learners to choose based on their interest.

Plus, it is a tool that caters different kinds of level suitable for students age 13 to 16 years old to learn and improve themselves moving from the beginner to an advance level.
 
Apart from that, the most cool thing about this website is that almost all the listening activities are being supported with interesting mutimedias, cartoon animation, downloadable mp3 files, vocab task, language notes and MANY MORE for FREE!!...How interesting is that???

How to use this tool?? 

1)The activities in Elllo English has been categorized and designed into 5 different section which is views,mixer,scenes,news and game. You can choose which section that you prefer and all the topics that is related to the section will appear for you to choose depending on your level and interest of your student. You can also use the search column to find your desired topic instantly.

2) After that, you can start doing the listening activity by listening to the audio/ slide show presentation before answering the question provided at the right hand side.

Listen to audio/ slide show

The activities

3) You can also enrich your vocabulary by going through the the language notes provided in the transcription.

 

Language notes: meaning and how to use it 

 4)There is also an activity using videos of real people speaking about the topic. There's even a subtitle to it. Check out the picture below!

How might this tool works brilliantly in a language classroom ?

• Excellent for a listening activity as individual or pair work that can develop their listening skills to a new level.

• Creating a new fresh atmosphere of language learning for the students to keep the student to feel motivated.

• The activities are developed from different kinds of topic accross culture for the learners to choose based on their interest making the activity more fun and exciting.

• Different accents is being used as a medium to exposed the learners with different style of language used spoken from the people around the globe.

• The materials are authentic where the language and topic used is something that we can hear outside of the classroom.

• It comes with a printable version and free mp3 files suitable for classes with limited amount of computer facilities.

• Promotes autonomous learning- students can improve their skills by themselves at home independently

• Include a chance to improve a variety of language skills such as reading, listening and vocabulary.

Some limitations of this tool.

• The slideshow provided is sometime unrelevant and confusing to students without proper explations by teachers.

• Some of the old activities are not included with downloadable mp3 files.

• The questions are limited 

• The topics under each section is sometimes questionable and unrelated.