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Technology in Teaching English

Make your English students have access to all high technology toys like iPod, MP3 or MP4? How about a PC, digital camera or cell phone with picture-making capacity? What about access to an audio file, digital voice recorder or analog (tape)? The use of these devices and other high-tech toys, a lot of fun, effective learning projects can be assigned to and undertaken by your students.

Here are some suggestions that could be used starting with the ESL (English as a Second Language), EFL (English as a Foreign Language) or the learning of foreign languages:

1. Your EFL or foreign learners can prepare for tests, oral presentations or written on why or why not, they should use their high tech toys in the classroom, as well as tips on how they could actually do.

2. Ask students to write an abstract individual or make an oral presentation of a favorite song on your iPod, MP3 or MP4.

3. Another useful task for EFL learners to describe the action, the institution or the scenario of music or other kinds of videos on their MP4 player.

4. Get learners to give a speech written or oral of a popular artist or band with the song and / or examples of music video.

5. How about having your class write an advertisement or commercial describing the features and benefits of your digital camera, iPod, cell phone, MP3 player or MP4. They may record, film and produce their "commercial" using whatever high-tech devices are available.

6. For an interesting project senior class, you can assign students to conduct a series of survey marks what / makes and models of digital technology products for your EFL class. The following is a report or original presentation of a certain type.

7. Have each of your students to describe what they like and / or do not like a high-tech toy they own. They could then explain why and how they overcome all the shortcomings "or dislikes they may have and how they affect them.

8. Your students can make an oral, audio-visual or written about how high-tech toys are useful in business and education. They can explain how their parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, etc. to use these items.

9. Past, present and future: Students can explain orally, in writing or by audio-visual presentation, what they or others they know, in the past without the devices they have now, what if they currently use their devices for, and what they think these devices will grow in the future. Students can draw pictures, create collages in their presentations. My courses and really get into this kind.

10. Another interesting project outside of class that appeals to many English and foreign language learners is for you to spend on surveys of high technology websites, stores, shops and vendors for different brands, makes and models a particularly high-tech toy for the different characteristics and prices. They can then report these findings to the class using tables, graphs, images and photos.

The use of these devices and other high-tech toys like iPods, MP3 and MP4 players, personal computers (desktop or laptop), digital cameras or mobile phones with capabilities of shooting and audio, digital or analog tapes (voice recorders), home projects, this fun, effective learning can be assigned to and undertaken by your English learning a foreign language to enrich and enliven your classes. Try one or more of these suggestions, modified according to your class and teaching situation in one of your sessions of class.

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