In this section, I will present you with three free online digital tools you can not miss!
This website is a great option to play games at the same time students learn. In Baamboozle, teachers can choose between using a predesigned game or creating one of their own. It is possible to choose the amount of teams that will play and also how much points every question values.
Baamboozle is mainly used to practice vocabulary items, however it is also possible to design creative grammar games. The focus is on reading and speaking, since writing is not allowed during the games.
A typical activity on this site is the one where an image is shown and students have to say what it is outloud. Another idea is to create a game with questions. If the time is being taught, questions such as 'What time do you go to school?' and 'What time does your mother go to work?', are good options to practice students' oral skills.
An extraordinary tool to create visual and interactive content is Genially. Most teachers use it to prepare visual presentations as supportive material for their lessons. What stands out from others is that you can create interactive sections, which makes presentations more captivating. For those who do not know where to start off or lacks of creativity, this patform offers free modifiable templates.
There exists several tutorials you can watch to learn how to use it, since Genially has a wide varitety of tools inside the same site. You can even create games!
If you are teaching countries and nationalities, for example, you can ask your students to create an interactive map. The class may be divided according to the amount of continents, and each group has to make an interactive image in which, by clicking on the country, a box comes out and the name of the country and its nationality is read. By doing so, they would be praticing vocabulary and also learning geography!
Probably, this has been the most useful resource for teachers during the COVID pandemic. Liveworksheets is a platform where interactive worksheets can be posted. This tool was used to replace the traditional photocopies and workbooks on virtual classrooms. There are templates other teachers have posted that you can use, and it is also possible to create your owns.
The main focus of Liveworksheets is reading and writing. Comprehension activities and grammar practice prevail in this site. Furthermore, students' productions can be corrected automatically (by a previous setting) or sent privatelly to the teacher.
An online multiple choise exercise is good to practise and contrast two tenses. For instance, you can create a Simple Present vs Present Continuous multiple choise activity. It can be a short text or isolated sentences with an appropriate context from which students will have to infer the correct tense.