British National Corpus..It is certainly not corpus luteum though

What it is    

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. The latest edition is the BNC XML Edition, released in 2007

How to use it

1) Go to the website http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ .

2) Type in words which you would like to search. You can search for a single word or a phrase, restrict searches by part of speech, search in parts of the corpus only, and much more.

The layout of the website.

The results of your search will come out like this.

3) The search result will show the total frequency in the corpus and up to 50 examples.

Who can use this tool?

Every single person can use this tool.

How to use this tool in the classroom?

1)Students can use this tool to assist them in writing.

OMG..I do like this tool

1) Its free..

2) It shows a lot of sentence structures which relate to searched word.

Points to ponder.

1) There is no audio files available. Students cannot learn to pronounce the words.

2) There are too many sentences which show how the words can be used. Its too complicated..

The link to the website.

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Listen and write:A review from me

What it is..
As the title suggests, the learners ought to listen to the news and write it back.  There are plenty of language exercises ,suitable for secondary school students (age 13 and above) and students of all English language levels.

                     You might want to watch this video to get some ideas about this website.

How to use this website in the classroom.
You can ask students to choose one video which suits their level and do the activity with a partner. Write the students final score on the blackboard. Usually, students would be tempted to be the high scorer and this would help to increase their concentration when doing the task.


OMG..I do like it.
1) Its free. There is no need for credit card.


2) Its fun, believe me. You can try one of the activities and tell me about it.


3) It can help to enhance students' vocabulary. Students can learn new words and different structure of the sentences if they do the activities.

                 I tried on one of the activities. Just wanna give you an overview though.

Points to ponder.
1) Some of the sources have not been validated. This is because, all the subscribers can upload their own audio clip on the website. Therefore, we can say that some of the audio clips are not up to the academic standard.


2)Then again, like my previous post, this website requires internet access and computer. Thus, if the students do not have one of these or both, they could not do the activity.


3) The idea of linking Facebook to this website could be good or bad. As we know, the majority of Facebook users are teenagers . Therefore, the students might be distracted and the learning process could be disrupted.

The Facebook button.

Link to the website:

http://www.listen-and-write.com/