ELLLO ENGLISH-Making learning English global

Ellooooo

Hello guys! So, how's your weekend?(mine is fun!) Okay, without wasting any time, I want to introduce you the website that have tons of listening activity which were done by people from various countries. Sounds good, right?...:-)

I still don't get it-why 3 Ls?

WHAT IS IT?

Elllo English is a website which contains thousands of listening activities. Most of them come with downloadable MP3 tracks, text views, slideshows, audio notes and also quizzes. With this website, you can sharpen your listening and comprehension skills. The listening activities are categorize into several categories; Views, Mixer, Game, News and Scenes. Each categories offers different context.

WHO CAN USE IT?

This tool is suitable for the students who are:

• beginner, intermediate and advance level of students. It is depending on how the teacher orgsnize the listening activity to cater the students' level

HOW CAN WE USE IT IN TEACHING ENGLISH

• listening activity

Surely, this tool is great for listening activity as they offer all we need to do the listening activity in the classroom. The teacher can choose a topic that might get students interested. Before listening, the teacher can preview the comprehension questions (which are provided) and ask the students to guess what will they listen. Then, play the recording and ask them to listen. Give them the comprehension questions (which showed earlier) and ask them to answer. Discuss the answer.

• speaking activity

Speaking activity can be done as a follow up activity (after listening activity suggested above). The teacher can divided students into pairs and ask them to response to the video. For example, if the listening activity topic is 'Studying alone of in group', the teacher can ask the students whether they prefer study alone or in group and they should give reasons for their answer. While the students are discussing, the teacher can walk around and listen for their conversation. It is useful for the teacher to make note of the language they used and discuss it later. 

THEORY OF LEARNING USING THE TOOL

• The tool helps students to become more cultural competence as the videos in the website shows different people from different cultural background speaking English in their accents. 

THINGS I LIKE ABOUT IT

• Some of the listening activities come with downloadable MP3 tracks, so teacher can download them and can use them in the classroom where the internet is not available

• The listening activities comes with transcript and some of the listening activities can also be printed

• It has variety of topics to choose from, most of them are interesting. Thus students can become more motivated to listen

• It provides students with the purpose for listening as there are comprehension question to be answered afterwards
• It supports autonomous learning, where students can do the listening activity by their own will

• There are videos which show people with various accents speak about a given topic. These spoken English can surely be useful for students to be more prepared in the real world-it is real language!

• And of course because it is FREE!

THINGS I HATE ABOUT IT

• It is not organised. There are lots of listening activities (about 1000++!) and they only being categorized into 5 categories. It is very hard to find your favourite topic-you have to search them one by one. Some of impatient students will just leave the website before they could find their topic.

• The advertisements on the website is pretty annoying. Some of them really disturbing the view of the website!And some of them can distract our focus too. (They even have the 'dating website advertisement'. How do you find it helps in learning?..hmmm)

• As the videos are from different versions, some versions do not offer downloadable MP3 tracks, text views, slideshows, audio notes and quizzes.:-(

STEP BY STEP TO USE ELLLO ENGLISH

Step 1: Go to Elllo English

Step 2: Select what category of listening do you want to 
            hear

Step 3: Choose you preferred listening topic

Step 4: Listen to the video and answer the question

Choose the catogery

If you choose Game category, choose the topic that you want to listen

Here I included an example of the listening video.

I think, it is a great idea that we get to see the person who is speaking as facial expression is one of important things in conversation. I already tried the website and I think you should too.:-)